GE Vernova Steadies After 8.6% Slide as Analysts Divide Over Its Power Boom

GE Vernova steadied on Tuesday, a day after the power-equipment maker lost 8.6% in its steepest one-day drop in months, as a new Street-low Sell rating collided with fresh orders and a defense from one of Wall Street’s bulls. The stock traded up less than 1% in early-afternoon dealing, at about $882, after Monday’s close of $874.76. The bounce was slight.

A $470 target lands on a $950 stock

The selling started Monday when GLJ Research began coverage with a Sell rating and a $470 price target, the lowest on Wall Street and less than half the stock’s Friday close of $957.27. The firm’s 2027 EBITDA estimate of $7.42 billion sits 22% below the analyst consensus of $9.45 billion. Its argument turns on timing. Turbines due for delivery in 2027 were booked back in 2024, before GE Vernova pushed through price increases, so GLJ expects those units to carry far thinner backlog margins than the 2025 vintage that ships a year later. It also pegged 2027 power-segment margins at 18.5%, against a Street consensus of 20.7%, and it put the firm’s 2027 backlog margin near 3 percentage points versus 10 to 11 points on the 2025 vintage. The note also questioned the stock’s valuation, an enterprise value near 39 times forward EBITDA, for what it framed as a cyclical gas-turbine manufacturer. Shares fell on volume 1.6 times the 20-day average, and the selling spread to other electrification names: Eaton dropped 7.6% and Vertiv 7.7% the same session.

Bangkok deals and a bull’s rebuttal

By Tuesday the picture had two sides. GE Vernova said it signed agreements with Thailand’s B.Grimm Power at the Gastech conference in Bangkok, supplying a gas turbine and generator for a plant in Malaysia due in 2027 and taking on a 14-year service contract for five LM6000 units at two Thai power stations. Bernstein reiterated its Outperform rating the same morning. The split is stark. GLJ’s $470 now anchors the low end of a range whose median analyst target still sits near $1,250, a gap that frames the question hanging over the whole data-center power trade: how much of the coming electricity demand is already in the price.

A long slide even before Monday

Monday’s drop extended a decline that was already well underway. GE Vernova entered the week down 16% over 30 days and a comparable amount across 90, and Monday’s close landed just above its lowest level in three months. This was not a one-day event. The stock now sits 27% below its 52-week high of $1,195.94, though it remains far above the $233.51 low from a year ago, a level from its early days as a standalone company after the spin-off from General Electric. Its market value stands at $235 billion.

On the calendar

The Federal Reserve’s rate decision arrives Wednesday, a swing factor for the rate-sensitive infrastructure and capital-goods names that have led this year’s electrification trade. Wednesday looms largest. Beyond that, investors will watch for GE Vernova’s next order announcements and its updated 2027 guidance, the figures that will test which side of the analyst divide the numbers support. The company’s third-quarter results are its next scheduled checkpoint.

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