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用订单和 backlog 说明变压器 / 开关设备是数据中心的关键瓶颈。

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中文翻译

当前瓶颈:变压器 / 开关设备。 交易思路:在 184 加元买入 Hammond(约 22 亿加元 / 15 亿美元)的多头。 它们主导的市场包括: - 变压器(干式,多年瓶颈,约占市场 23%) - 开关设备(2-3 年瓶颈) - 还生产液体型产品(5 年瓶颈,规模更大) 我个人预计其价格会像 NAND 一样上调,因为 $AMZN、$MSFT 等公司都在争夺配额。 你可能见过这类说法: “美国一半的数据中心建设被推迟或取消,增长受限于电力基础设施短缺”…… 再往下看: “为了解决短缺……加拿大、墨西哥……成了 AI 数据中心高压变压器的最大供应国”…… 猜猜谁在加拿大的 Guelph、墨西哥的 Monterrey 3 和 4,以及美国都有布局? Hammond。 再看文章引用的,为什么超大规模客户的数据库扩张正在崩掉: “这些挫折背后的主要原因,是关键电气组件的可获得性——比如变压器、开关设备。” 机构大概都在看 Powell、Eaton 之类的公司……但他们可能不知道? 这些公司其实会买 Hammond 的变压器再装进自己的开关设备里(“大量卖给数据中心、开关设备制造商”)。 它们在变压器市场的份额其实很大(例如干式约 23%)。 最有说服力的信号: -> 2025 年 backlog 同比增长 122%。我们可以据此推测超过 10 亿加元。 例如,公司 2025 年销售额为 8.98 亿加元,产能已经顶到上限。管理层说,2025 年第三季度末的订单价值相当于整个第三季度 backlog 的 53%。 考虑到 2025 年第四季度营收是 2.54 亿,而 backlog “翻了一倍多”,我们可以推算总 backlog 超过 10 亿加元。 另外: “去年毛利率压缩是因为墨西哥工厂建设,但预计毛利率都会上升,工厂扩建会在 2026 年第二季度转化为加速收入增长”,也就是现在。 下行风险在于原材料成本(铜、电工钢)如果再次上升,不过既然处在这种瓶颈里,他们是可以提价的。 我个人的 2026 年前瞻市盈率估计大概是 18-21 倍,2027 年不到 15 倍,因为有产能爬坡。 但如果他们能一边提价,一边接到超大规模客户的紧急订单,前瞻市盈率甚至有可能到个位数。不过那可能会和新并购混在一起。 总之它还是很便宜。 简单总结一下: $AMZN、$MSFT、$META、$GOOGL、$ORCL 的数据中心正在被变压器 / 开关设备短缺卡住。 市场似乎错过了这家市场份额很大的小公司,尽管它有 backlog 可见度,而且随着产能扩张上线,营收还在增长。 我个人觉得很有吸引力,所以建了多头仓位。 当然,这只是我的个人想法,做决定前请自己 DYOR。

英文原文

The current bottleneck: Transformers/Switchgear. 

Trade Idea: Long Hammond (~2.2B CAD / ~$1.5B USD) at 184 CAD. They dominate the market for: -Transformers (dry, multi year bottleneck ~23% of market), -serve to switchgear (2-3Y bottleneck) -and manufacture liquid too (5Y, larger bottleneck) 
I personally anticipate components price hikes like NAND, as $AMZN, $MSFT and others compete for allocation. 

You might have seen: “Half of US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure”… Then you go further:

“To address shortages… Canada, Mexico… became the biggest suppliers of high-power transformers for AI data centers to AI data centers”

Guess who is in Canada (Guelph).. Mexico (Monterrey 3 and 4)… and the US?

Hammond

Then here’s the reason the articles cite why hyperscaler DB buildouts are falling apart: 
 “Major reason behind these setbacks is the availability of key electrical components — such as transformers, switchgear”.  Institutions are probably looking at Powell, Eaton, and others… but little do they know? Companies like these actually buy Hammond’s transformers to put inside their own switchgear (“strong sales into data centres, switchgear manufacturers")

Their market share over the transformers market is actually pretty large (eg. ~23% dry).  
The most compelling signal:

-> 122% Y/Y 2025 backlog increase. And we can infer this to be 1B+ CAD.  Eg. company achieved 898m CAD in sales in 2025, capacity ceiling. Management said close of Q3 2025 orders were valued at 53% of the entire closing third-quarter backlog. Given that Q4 2025 revenue was 254 million and the backlog is "more than doubled," we can infer a total backlog value exceeding 1 billion CAD. Also: 
“Gross margin compression last year was due to the buildout of their Mexico facility, but both gross margins are expected to increase and the facility expansions are expectied to turn into accelerated revenue Q2 2026)” which is now.

Downside is if raw material costs (copper, electrical steel) spike again, but given this bottleneck, they can price hike. 

Personal FWD P/E estimates would be ~18-21 for 2026, <15 for 2027 from volume ramp. But I think it’s possible to hit single digit fwd P/E if they do price hikes mixed with hyperscaler emergency orders. But that might get a little mixed with the new acquisition. Regardless still looks cheap. 
 Just a TLDR:  
$AMZN, $MSFT, $META, $GOOGL, $ORCL datacenter are being bottlenecked because of a lack of transformers/switchgear.

Seems like markets missed this little player with large market share, despite backlog visibility and increasing revenue from capacity expansion coming online. I personally found it pretty compelling, so I went long. Just sharing my personal thoughts, of course DYOR before making any decisions yourself.

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