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Modine Manufacturing is a pure play on data-center thermal management, and its November 18 investor day could send it higher if it confidently sets big 2028-29 targets. It already cites two hyperscalers and one neocloud as customers, and which hyperscalers they are does not matter. Its valuation, which had grown stretched along with Vertiv's, now looks more intriguing than ever. x.com
Modine's AI data-center cooling demand and rising backlog, at a fraction of Vertiv's valuation, make it one of the best risk-reward setups in the entire AI infrastructure sector right now. Its backlog has nearly doubled over the past year; Q1 revenue rose 28% to $874 million, and FY2027 sales growth guidance is 20-35%. Modine reportedly secured a Google cooling deal worth over $4 billion through 2027-29. At an $8 billion market cap, $300-plus is the target. x.com
Modine's cooling efficiency turns scarce data-center power into sellable compute, supporting demand for its equipment. Cooling uses 10-30% of site power; its machines deliver roughly 15-20% more cooling per watt than rivals. Separately, management's public probability buckets and customer timeline match a still-unconfirmed leaked pipeline; applying the reported conversion odds implies about $2.3B in FY2027 data-center revenue, above the top of guidance. Supply remains constrained. x.com x.com
Modine Manufacturing looks expensive against its earnings. The thermal-solutions maker trades at 16x earnings while auto-parts suppliers usually get 11x. Applying 11x to next year's estimated $11.18 a share gives fair value of about $108-138, putting the current price 29% above the high end; it is expensive above $178.91. This is a levels-only read, not fundamental work. x.com
Modine Manufacturing is becoming a pure-play AI cooling company as hyperscalers pay upfront to lock in its factory capacity through 2029. Per @hntrbrkmedia, a leaked codebase named Google as the hyperscaler behind Modine's $4B agreement, which carries $165M upfront, and Modine has billions more demand from Amazon, Crusoe and others. Spinning off the legacy automotive segment via Gentherm sharpens the focus. Data center sales are up 70-80%; watch how fast ramp-up margin drag fades. x.com
Modine Manufacturing looks set to join the elite data-center infrastructure chart group alongside Comfort Systems, Sterling and Quanta. It signed a long-term capacity agreement to supply more than $4B of Airedale data center cooling products to a strategic customer in 2027-2029, receiving a $165M upfront payment to fund capacity. x.com
Data center cooling stocks lose as NVIDIA's Vera Rubin chips need no chillers. Per @HedgieMarkets, Jensen Huang said Rubin can be cooled with 45°C water, sending Johnson Controls down 6.2%, Modine 7.4%, Trane 4% and Carrier nearly 1%; the chips ship in the second half of 2026. With NVIDIA reporting $1 trillion of Blackwell and Rubin orders through 2027, AI capex is doubling, and on an Elliott Wave view the cooling stocks may be starting their own wave 3 to the downside. x.com x.com
Modine is following a rerating playbook by shifting toward higher-margin businesses. It makes heat exchangers, air handlers and liquid cooling critical to hyperscale data centers, and in February 2026 announced a spin-off of its cyclical, auto-exposed Performance Technologies segment to become a purer data-center, air-quality and refrigeration play. That cuts cyclical drag and improves quality and valuation appeal. The chart also wants to go up; the bias stays long above the $235-245 pivot. … Show more
AI data-center spending flows beyond GPUs and operators into networking, optics, power and cooling. Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom and Marvell supply chips; Arista, Nokia and Credo connectivity; Applied Optoelectronics and Lumentum optics; Vistra, Constellation and Bloom power; Vertiv and Modine cooling. Meta's $140B spending this year illustrates the scale, per a commenter with whom the point is agreed. x.com x.com
Liquid cooling is the must-have upgrade for AI data centers, making Vertiv, Eaton, Trane and Modine the next big AI infrastructure winners. It unlocks racks above 100kW, cuts energy use and keeps hyperscalers ahead of the heat. Vertiv and Modine span direct-to-chip cold plates and immersion cooling, Vertiv, Eaton and Trane supply coolant distribution units, Trane and Vertiv build facility chillers and heat rejection, and Vertiv and Eaton offer integrated thermal management. x.com
Meta's unmet AI demand pays its bottleneck suppliers. Super Micro's $19.5B quarterly outlook and under 8x forward earnings point to a double. CoreWeave's Meta deals total $35.2B; it should easily top $100. Builders say nearly all new sites use Dell or Super Micro; Dell could easily double. Micron's demand is off the charts at 5x forward earnings. Sources say Vertiv's gear is sold out for 2-3 years. VivoPower has 2GW+ potential in 5-7 years. Digi Power X has a $1.1B Cerebras deal. x.com x.com … Show more
