| Account | Shares | Price | Value | % of acct | Cost/sh | Gain $ | Gain % | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401K | 3 | $182.50 | $548 | 0.02% | $184.00 | $-4 | -0.8% | — |
In short: "We are reiterating our GNRC BUY recommendation." Bought Aug 28 at $186.18, now ~$205 (+~10.2%; table marks it $206.77, +11.06%). The trigger: last week's 8-K disclosing a long-term Amazon supply agreement for up to $8B of backup generators for its data centers globally through 2033, with $2.4B of initial deliveries in 2027–28 alone. Amazon receives the right to buy up to 1.7M GNRC shares at $200.93 "but only as it actually places orders," and part of that vested at signing: "not a letter of intent or a preferred vendor arrangement… That alignment is the moat." The business: data-center backlog $1.6B ($1.35B for 2027), ~$1B of orders in the 90 days to Jun 30, two multi-year hyperscale agreements, large-megawatt capacity being tripled (new Belvidere, IL plant), FY data-center guidance raised to $450M, and Q2 adj. EPS $2.91 vs $1.95 (+49%). Valuation: 17.9× forward P/E and 2.76× P/S, ~57% below the 2021 peak of 42× / ~10× sales, which was "a cyclical demand story priced as a secular one." Technicals: steady higher highs, each followed by a material pull-back; this one is "another rewarding chance to buy into the name, or add to it." Consensus $284–$295 (UBS $340, Jefferies $338) is "almost certainly stale." Next catalyst: Oct 27 Q3 earnings, "a powerful flywheel."
Generac is best known for the standby generators homeowners install for power outages, but the growth now comes from huge generators that keep data centers running when the grid fails. Every large AI data center needs backup power big enough to carry the whole building. Haymaker recommended the stock a month ago at about $186, and it is now around $205.
The news: Amazon signed a deal to buy up to $8 billion of Generac's generators through 2033, with $2.4 billion due in 2027–28. The clever part is that Amazon also got the right to buy Generac shares at a fixed $200.93, but only as it places orders. Amazon therefore profits as a Generac shareholder when it keeps buying from Generac, which gives it a reason to stay a loyal customer. Haymaker calls that the moat.
On price, the stock trades at about 18 times next year's expected profit. That is far below the 42 times investors paid in 2021, when a temporary home-generator boom was mistaken for a permanent one. The difference now is that the demand is signed and contracted. Analysts' price targets ($284–$295) were set before the Amazon deal, so Haymaker expects them to rise. Past dips in this stock have been good buying chances, the next test is the October 27 earnings report, and the rating stays Buy.
In short: News mention ("Stocks I'm Watching"): shares up more than 30% premarket after the backup-power company signed a $2.4 billion deal to sell data-center generators to Amazon.
In short: Pick of the Week — the C&I/data-center transformation "the market is finally recognizing" (written with contributor Daniel Bustamante). "Generac is no longer simply a residential generator company dependent on hurricanes and power outages": a second earnings engine in Commercial & Industrial is scaling "with data-center demand accelerating faster than the market previously expected," while residential "is becoming more profitable, even without a major weather-driven demand cycle" — so "the company can produce meaningful earnings growth without requiring both businesses to peak simultaneously." Positioning against the AI-capex worry is explicit: "while others are worrying about CapEx spend on the hyperscalers Generac has been, and will continue to be, a net benefactor of said spend." Evidence: Q2 C&I sales +29% to $556M after +28% in Q1 — "the acceleration is no longer based on a single quarter or a hypothetical pipeline"; an approximately $1.6B data-center backlog, "an increase of roughly $1 billion since its previous update," which "does not include committed volume from the company's second hyperscale agreement," with $1.35B scheduled for 2027; ~$1B of new data-center orders in the 90 days ending June 30 ("roughly $11 million per day"); FY data-center revenue guidance raised to $450M; ~$700M of committed 2027 volume finalized with one hyperscaler, a global supply agreement signed with a second and 2027/2028 product terms under negotiation; and capacity bought against it — Enercon (generator controls and packaging) plus an additional Illinois large-megawatt packaging facility — "investing against contracted demand, not merely building capacity in anticipation of demand that may never arrive." CEO Aaron Jagdfeld: the data-center market is "unlike anything we've seen before." Why the moat is physical: "every large-scale data center requires multi-megawatt backup generation capable of carrying the full facility load through grid outages," made at a "scale (and service network) that new entrants cannot replicate quickly." The re-rating logic: data centers add visibility, scale and diversification, and C&I is ~47% of Q2 external sales vs ~41% a year earlier, so Generac "increasingly resembles a diversified power-infrastructure company" and such businesses "generally receive higher and more durable valuation multiples than highly cyclical consumer-equipment companies." Residential = optionality: Q2 sales −2% but a 34.7% adjusted EBITDA margin of which "roughly nine percentage points came from tariff refunds," with "favorable mix and operating efficiencies" the durable part; "the current thesis does not require a major hurricane season," while a "Super" El Niño "this year and next seems probable" and retail flows chase weather events ("see the 2021 Texas freeze storm"). Financials (consensus): revenue +17.4% (2026) / +21.3% (2027) to ~$4.94B then ~$6.0B; adj. EBITDA $690M → $1.01B → $1.19B; EBITDA margin 16.4% → 20.5%; adj. EPS $5.14 → $9.75 → $11.82; FCF ~$353M then ~$478M; $1.33B debt vs $265M cash, EV ~$13.0B. Valuation: "roughly 18.2x forward earnings and 2.7x trailing sales, well below its 2021 peak and near the middle of its post-2022 range… the stock's multiple has recently compressed, suggesting earnings expectations, not valuation expansion, are now doing most of the work." A $500M buyback authorization (approved Feb 9, 2026; 24 months) is entirely unused — "an option which management can activate at any time." Entry: after "a +90% run up to start the year" and a one-third correction, the stock "is hovering right on the 200-day moving average" and is "testing the 50% retracement (from the December lows to the June 2026 highs) which already found buyers back in July" — the confluence "could see us begin to consolidate well and make our next leg higher into the back half of the year." Verdict: "the story boils down to one question: 'How big can the C&I business become?'… now that it's pulled back, it provides an intriguing play near the $200 area."
Generac makes generators — the machines that produce electricity when the grid stops delivering it. Most people know the company for the box in the back garden that keeps the lights and fridge on when a storm takes the power out. That business is real, but it is also the reason the stock has always been treated as a weather bet: a bad hurricane season meant a rush of orders, a quiet one meant unsold inventory and disappointing profits. Haymaker's argument, written this week with contributor Daniel Bustamante, is that this is no longer what the company is.
The change is a second business that has been growing quietly and is now impossible to miss: Commercial & Industrial equipment, and specifically the very large generators that data centers must install. This is a physical requirement, not a fashion. A data center cannot afford to go dark for even a moment, so every large one is built with backup generation capable of carrying the entire building's electrical load on its own if the grid fails. Those are multi-megawatt machines — hundreds of times bigger than a home unit — and there are only a handful of firms that can build, package, ship and service them at scale. Generac is one of them, and as the post puts it, that scale and service network is something "new entrants cannot replicate quickly."
The evidence that this is working is order flow, which is the hardest kind of evidence to fake. Commercial sales rose 29% in the second quarter to $556 million, following 28% growth in the first — two quarters, so it is a trend rather than a fluke. The order book for data centers alone is now about $1.6 billion, up roughly $1 billion since the last update, and about $1.35 billion of it is scheduled to be delivered in 2027 — meaning a large part of next year's revenue is already signed, not hoped for. In the three months to the end of June the company took in around $1 billion of new data-center orders, which works out at roughly $11 million a day. The reported backlog also leaves out committed volume from a second giant cloud customer, so the real figure is probably higher than the one disclosed.
Two of those giant customers — "hyperscalers," the handful of companies like the big cloud providers that build data centers at enormous scale — are now under contract: one with nearly $700 million of committed 2027 volume, and a second under a global supply agreement with 2027 and 2028 volumes being negotiated. Generac has responded by buying capacity: Enercon, a business that makes generator controls and does packaging, and an extra factory in Illinois for assembling the largest machines. The distinction Haymaker draws is important — the company is spending money against orders it already has, rather than building factories hoping demand shows up. That is a much lower-risk form of expansion.
There is also a neat inversion here worth noticing. Much of the market is nervous that the enormous sums the cloud companies are spending on AI data centers cannot last. For Generac, that spending is not a risk but a customer: "while others are worrying about CapEx spend on the hyperscalers Generac has been, and will continue to be, a net benefactor of said spend."
Why this should change the price of the shares comes down to what kind of company investors think they are buying. A consumer-equipment maker whose sales rise and fall with the weather is valued cautiously, because its earnings are unreliable. An infrastructure supplier with a signed multi-year order book is valued more generously, because you can see the revenue coming. Commercial sales were about 47% of the quarter's external revenue, up from roughly 41% a year earlier — so the company is steadily becoming the second kind of business, and that shift alone can justify a higher multiple even before profits grow.
The home-generator business has not disappeared; it has been demoted from the reason to own the stock to a free extra. Residential sales actually fell about 2% last quarter, yet the segment's profit margin reached 34.7% — although roughly nine of those percentage points came from tariff refunds, a one-off, and Haymaker says so plainly rather than quoting the flattering headline. The durable part of the improvement came from a better product mix and more efficient production. And there is a genuine call option attached: forecasters think a "Super" El Niño is probable this year and next, which would mean more storms, more outages and a rush of home-generator buying — plus the retail traders who pile into the stock every time the weather makes the news, as they did during the 2021 Texas freeze. None of that is required for the thesis to work, which is exactly what makes it optionality rather than a bet.
The numbers analysts now expect: revenue growing 17.4% in 2026 and 21.3% in 2027, to roughly $4.94 billion and then almost $6 billion. Profits grow much faster than sales — the mark of "operating leverage," where a factory that is already built and staffed produces more without proportionally more cost — with adjusted EBITDA (a rough measure of cash profit from operations) going from $690 million in 2025 to about $1.01 billion in 2026 and $1.19 billion in 2027, and adjusted earnings per share from $5.14 to $9.75 to $11.82. Debt is modest at about $1.33 billion against $265 million of cash. There is also a $500 million buyback authorization approved in February that management has not spent a penny of — a lever they can pull at any time.
What makes this interesting rather than merely good is that the stock is not expensive. It trades at about 18.2 times next year's expected earnings and 2.7 times sales — well below its 2021 peak and near the middle of its range since 2022. The line worth remembering: "the stock's multiple has recently compressed, suggesting earnings expectations, not valuation expansion, are now doing most of the work." In plain terms, you are not being asked to pay up for the story; the share price is being carried by actual profit growth.
Finally, the timing. The stock ran up almost 90% earlier this year, got over-extended, and has since given back a third of that. It now sits on two levels at once: its 200-day moving average — the average price over roughly the past year, a common line long-term buyers watch — and the halfway point of the whole rally measured from the December lows to the June highs, a level that already attracted buyers back in July. Haymaker's conclusion is that the earnings inflection is visible and largely contracted, the remaining question is simply "how big can the C&I business become," and after the pullback the shares are "an intriguing play near the $200 area."
In short: Named as another provider of portable power systems competing with ERock for data-center backup/temporary power.
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