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Revenue Up 33%, EPS Up 87%, and the Data Center Pivot Is Now Real (NASDAQ: PPIH)

Record fiscal year, $54 million in fresh awards four days later, and a two-vector growth engine now fully operating.

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Apr 24, 2026
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Perma-Pipe International Holdings published its audited fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2025 results last Thursday.

The headline: record everything.

  • Revenue grew 33.1% to $210.9 million.

  • Net income attributable to common stock grew 88.9% to $17.0 million.

  • GAAP diluted EPS grew 87% to $2.09 from $1.12.

  • Income before income taxes grew 49% to $27.5 million, or $29.6 million on an adjusted basis.

  • Operating income grew 45% to $29.4 million.

  • Gross profit grew 30.6% to $69.5 million at a 33% margin.

Four days later, on Monday, the company disclosed approximately $54 million in new Q1 2026 project awards - including named AI-enabled data center contracts, the National Research Laboratories project, the Marathon project, and major District Heating & Cooling awards in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

PPIH now has roughly $175 million of visible, awarded work on the books - and that is with three quarters of fiscal 2026 still open to new orders.

The business reports a strengthened working capital position, a modernised global capital structure through a new J.P. Morgan credit facility, and a dedicated new US manufacturing facility in Ohio positioned specifically for AI data centers and the Northeast corridor district heating and cooling market.

The stock is trading around $30, implying a market cap of approximately $245 million.

On trailing numbers, that gives you an EV/EBITDA of approximately 7x.

A trailing P/E of around 14x.

For a business growing revenue at 33%, operating profit at 45%, with contracted backlog visibility, named end-market exposure to the AI infrastructure build-out, and two distinct growth vectors firing simultaneously.

In the rest of this post, I cover:

  • The audited fiscal 2025 numbers and how the operating leverage shows up

  • Regional performance across MENA and North America

  • The Ohio facility and what it means for data center exposure

  • The J.P. Morgan credit facility and capital structure transformation

  • The backlog and what fiscal 2026 actually looks like

  • Bear, base, and bull case valuations

  • Key developments since December and what I am watching from here

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