Conferencia de resultados de PSIX del 3T 2026: mejora el margen, se elevan las perspectivas para el segundo semestre

Puntos clave

• Las ventas netas del tercer trimestre de 2026 alcanzaron los 202,1 millones de dólares, lo que supone un descenso interanual del 1%, pero un aumento secuencial del 32,5%, ya que el incremento en las ventas vinculadas a centros de datos compensó en parte la persistente debilidad en el sector de petróleo y gas.
• El margen bruto aumentó al 29,7%, frente al 23,9% de hace un año y al 27,1% del segundo trimestre. La devolución de aranceles por valor de 3,8 millones de dólares aportó aproximadamente 188 puntos básicos y no se espera que vuelva a repetirse.
• El beneficio neto aumentó a 29,9 millones de dólares, o aproximadamente 1,30 dólares por acción diluida, frente a los 27,6 millones de dólares, o 1,20 dólares por acción diluida, del tercer trimestre de 2025.
• El flujo de caja operativo alcanzó los 40,9 millones de dólares en el trimestre. PSI cerró septiembre con 72 millones de dólares en efectivo, una deuda total de 37,7 millones de dólares y una caja neta de aproximadamente 34 millones de dólares.
• La dirección elevó sus previsiones y ahora espera que las ventas netas de la segunda mitad de 2026 superen los niveles del segundo semestre de 2025, respaldadas por el inicio de la producción de pedidos más grandes de sistemas de energía.
• PSI está destinando recursos adicionales de ingeniería a motores y grupos electrógenos de gas natural, ya que la dirección percibe un desplazamiento gradual de la demanda de los centros de datos desde los generadores diésel de reserva hacia la energía continua y de transición a gas natural.

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Desempeño operativo y comercial

Las ventas de sistemas de energía cayeron 6,2 millones de dólares en términos interanuales, una mejora sustancial respecto al retroceso de 34,6 millones de dólares registrado en el segundo trimestre. La debilidad continuada en el sector de petróleo y gas se vio compensada parcialmente por mayores ventas de productos vinculados a centros de datos.

Las ventas del segmento de transporte disminuyeron 1,1 millones de dólares. Por su parte, las ventas del sector industrial aumentaron 5,6 millones de dólares, principalmente debido al calendario de envíos de productos heredados. La dirección no espera que se mantenga dicho nivel de ventas industriales.

Las mejoras operativas en las instalaciones de PSI en Wisconsin permitieron reducir los elevados costes de producción asociados a la ampliación de capacidad para centros de datos. La empresa está centrada en la eficiencia de fabricación, la productividad laboral, la optimización de procesos y el control de costes. No obstante, se prevé que los costes de aceleración productiva sigan presentes.

La dirección indicó que la superficie operativa de PSI en Wisconsin se ha expandido desde unos 150.000 pies cuadrados hasta cerca de 800.000 pies cuadrados. Actualmente, la empresa no tiene previsto arrendar instalaciones adicionales y está priorizando la productividad y la eficacia general de los equipos en sus instalaciones existentes.

En el marco de su estrategia PowerBoost 2030, PSI prevé mantener su base en los sectores industrial y de petróleo y gas, al tiempo que amplía su exposición al mercado energético para centros de datos de IA. La compañía también avanza en el desarrollo de motores y generadores de gas natural para posibles aplicaciones de energía continua (prime) y de transición (bridge).

Previsiones de la dirección

PSI ahora espera que las ventas netas del segundo semestre de 2026 superen las del segundo semestre de 2025. Su previsión anterior estimaba que las ventas estarían aproximadamente en línea con las del mismo periodo del año anterior. Esta revisión al alza refleja el calendario de producción actual y los envíos previstos de productos para centros de datos.

La dirección prevé que el margen bruto del cuarto trimestre disminuya con respecto al del tercer trimestre, debido a que no se repetirá la devolución de aranceles de 3,8 millones de dólares. Asimismo, anticipa una leve reducción adicional atribuible principalmente a una combinación de productos menos favorable.

Para el conjunto del ejercicio 2026, la dirección prevé que la continua debilidad en petróleo y gas sea compensada de forma aproximada por mayores ventas de productos para centros de datos, sujeto a la formalización de contratos con clientes y al reconocimiento de ingresos antes de que finalice el año. PSI espera ofrecer una visión más detallada sobre 2027 en la presentación de resultados del cuarto trimestre.

Riesgos y factores a seguir

• La conversión de pedidos de centros de datos sigue dependiendo de los calendarios de los clientes, el ritmo de producción y la disponibilidad de la cadena de suministro.
• Las restricciones actuales en el suministro de materiales podrían afectar a algunas entregas previstas para el cuarto trimestre.
• Los productos para centros de datos suelen ofrecer márgenes brutos inferiores a los de petróleo y gas, lo que genera presión sobre la combinación de ventas a medida que crecen los ingresos procedentes de centros de datos.
• Se prevé que los costes de aceleración de la capacidad productiva en Wisconsin continúen a pesar de las mejoras operativas.
• El volumen de producción, las mermas, los ajustes de inventario de fin de año y otros factores operativos podrían reducir el margen bruto por debajo de las previsiones actuales de la dirección.
• Los ingresos siguen estando concentrados en un número reducido de clientes, incluidos clientes del mercado de centros de datos.

Puntos destacados de la sesión de preguntas y respuestas con analistas

En relación con la mejora de las perspectivas para el segundo semestre, la dirección señaló un aumento previsto en los envíos de productos para centros de datos y continuas mejoras operativas en Wisconsin. Sin embargo, declinó cuantificar el incremento interanual esperado en las ventas.

Al ser consultada sobre la capacidad en Wisconsin, la dirección afirmó que las instalaciones actuales son suficientes para atender la demanda. En el corto plazo, los esfuerzos se centrarán en la productividad, la eficiencia y la ejecución operativa, en lugar de continuar ampliando las instalaciones.

Respecto a la tecnología de generación de energía, el consejero delegado, Richard Hu, afirmó que la dirección mantiene una visión constructiva sobre la demanda de los centros de datos a medio y largo plazo. PSI observa que la demanda incremental se desplaza progresivamente desde los generadores diésel de reserva hacia la energía continua y de transición a gas natural, por lo que está asignando recursos adicionales de ingeniería a grupos electrógenos de gas natural.

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Comentarios de la dirección

Operator

[Operator Instructions]

Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Ken Janke, VP, Corporate Controller for Power Solutions International. Go ahead.

Unknown Speaker

Good afternoon, and welcome to Power Solutions International's Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. I'm Ken Janke, Vice President and Corporate Controller. Joining me today are Richard Hu, our Chief Executive Officer, and Ken Lee, our Chief Financial Officer.

Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that today's prepared remarks and responses to questions will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about our sales and margin outlook, order conversion, capacity ramp-up, operational improvements, new product development, potential investments in manufacturing capabilities, and our PowerBoost 2030 strategy. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions, speak only as of today, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially.

Important factors include the timing and ultimate conversion of power systems orders into revenue, including data center-related orders, quarterly variability in product mix, including the lower gross margins of data center products relative to oil and gas products, customer-specific requirements and changes to custom product orders, the cost, pace, throughput, and operational outcomes of capacity ramp-up activities at our Wisconsin operations, including the duration and magnitude of related production costs, our ability to execute operational improvement initiatives, the level and persistence of customer demand, including demand conditions in the oil and gas end market, the concentration of our sales among a limited number of customers, including in the data center market, existing material availability constraints, and other supply chain factors affecting shipment timing, mix, sales, and gross margin, the non-recurrence of the tariff refund and year-end adjustments, including those arising from inventory counts, the timing, scope, cost, and funding of potential investments in manufacturing capabilities, which will remain under evaluation, integration of recent acquisitions, including MTL manufacturing and equipment, compliance with the covenants under our credit facility, macroeconomic, regulatory, and trade conditions, including U.S. tariffs and trade restrictions, changes in management or other personnel, and the outcome of pending or threatened litigation, including the previously disclosed securities class action and related shareholder derivative actions, and other legal or regulatory matters.

Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially is contained in our earnings release dated November 5, 2026, and under risk factors and the other cautionary disclosures in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, and subsequent Forms 10-Q and other SEC filings. Those disclosures are incorporated by reference for purposes of today's call and are available in the Investor Relations section of our website at www.psiengines.com. Our SEC filings are also available at sec.gov. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements except as required by law.

We will also reference EBITDA, EBITDA margin, and net cash or net debt, which are non-GAAP financial measures. The accompanying presentation also includes adjusted EBITDA. EBITDA margin represents EBITDA as a percentage of net sales. Net cash or net debt represents cash and cash equivalents less total debt, including finance lease liabilities. Definitions and reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures appear in today's earnings release and the appendix to the accompanying investor presentation, both available in the Investor Relations section of our website at www.psiengines.com. These measures supplement and do not replace our GAAP results. With that, I will turn the call over to Richard.

Richard Hu

Thank you, Ken, and good afternoon, everybody. Welcome again to joining us here for PSI's earnings call. This is really my very first earnings call as the Chief Executive Officer of PSI. Indeed, today, if I look at the calendar, it marks actually my 80th day at the company. I'm, again, super excited and humbled to be speaking with you during the call. Before we jump into the business, first, I do want to take the chance to thank Ken Lee for taking his leadership, helping the company being an Interim Chief Executive Officer. And also I want to thank Ken for his partnership and also strong cooperation in the transition. Thank you very much, Ken.

Since I joined the company in August, my focus has been learning and evaluating the business as soon as I can, as fast as I can. And I did it actually with my so-called 6P playbook: people, product, process, profit, partners, and sometimes politics. As of today, I have met actually 5 of our key customers across the traditional industrial oil and gas customer segment as well as the data center power customers. I have visited all 5 existing production locations we have today in Illinois and Wisconsin. And also I did already 2 intercontinental travels to meet shareholders as well.

So the takeaway here is what I have found. PSI is a company with really deep engineering expertise, strong long-standing relationships with our customers, and also, more importantly, a wide range of a balanced product portfolio, which I think well positions us ready to pivot to embracing the new growth opportunities from either the traditional industrial oil and gas as well as capturing the new incremental growth from the data center power market.

During the past 80 days, I have worked intensively and closely with our leadership team in the company. So we did have several rounds of strategic sessions, workshops together. Collectively, the team at PSI has developed so-called PowerBoost 2030. This strategy and roadmap will guide the company to continue to pivot to the next chapter of the company's history, we call it PSI 2.0. PSI 2.0 marks, in my opinion, a new era, a new journey for the company and for the organization.

Essentially, what PSI 2.0 or PowerBoost 2030 will do for us is to transition the company from a pure player in the industrial oil and gas market into a wider range of portfolio covering both our traditional market as well as capturing a new incremental data center power growth market. So the key words here I would emphasize are we are going to build a more balanced and resilient portfolio in which we can grow both from our heritage market as well as capture the new incremental data center power market.

With that being said, a minor example, 1 step forward for the company, was like last month we launched our new refreshed corporate logo identity, which does reflect, in my opinion, the new evolution to moving forward to a more modern, more technology-oriented company as PSI. Today, our priorities under PowerBoost 2030 are clear: deliver customer commitments, expanding our presence into the new rapid-growth AI data center market, and also fast forward with our key initiatives. For example, we do want to reinforce our manufacturing in the U.S. That's 1 of the key initiatives we are promoting. We do want to continue deepening our commitment and investment in North America to support our customers more sustainably and with profitable growth. Last but not least, let me talk about VIA.

So vision into action—me, myself, being a big fan of VIA, which is all about execution. Currently, our team is working intensively to put the strategy into actions. Internally, as of today, we are focusing on shifting and optimizing our operational model, organizational structure, processes in promoting greater speed and agility. And also we are reprogramming the culture DNA of the company. All of us, we are pivoting to a more agile focus on execution deliverables.

So now let's turn to Q3. Big picture overall, I believe our Q3 results do reflect strong operational performance. Net sales of $202 million increased 32.5% sequentially versus Q2, and also it's well in line year-over-year with the same quarter last year. If you look at net income, net income was growing about 8% to $29.9 million, or if you look at it from a diluted earnings per share, it's reaching about $1.30 per diluted share. We also generated a very strong cash flow in Q3, so we are at around $34 million net cash, very strong performance. With that being said, Ken, the CFO, will walk you through some of the details of the quarter when it comes to cash flow, because there are some 1-time factors which we do not expect to recur.

Talk about the market and operations. I would say, again, in power systems, we see demand from data center-related products remaining strong, and that's really partially offsetting the continued softness of oil and gas revenue. And the volume for the revenue from that demand remains subject to customer scheduling, manufacturing throughput, and also supply chain material availability and some challenges from the supplier base as well. So at this moment, we're not predicting a specific level of data center revenue in the near future.

With that being said, we are indeed, again, working very intensively with our customers, focusing on the 2027 order intake. When we talk about Wisconsin operations, I think the message here is that our operations are continuously improving, climbing on the performance lifting pattern. We see performance keep moving up, reducing significantly the elevated production costs. Also, the capacity ramping up is on track, on plan, and continuing. And also we expect today the related production costs to persist. We remain focused on on-time delivery for the customer, which is the #1 priority for Wisconsin operations.

Again, if we talk about the AI data center power industry, I think the business continues to expand rapidly in demand, and also they are asking for more reliable, scalable, and efficient power solutions. We see the situation continues to accelerate, at least in the medium to longer term. In response, PSI, what we are doing today from a product perspective, we are advancing the development activities in terms of natural gas engines and generators, because this is potentially a new mainstream of demand from the industry.

Over the past year or so, we have established regular quarterly earnings calls. We refreshed also our investor website to improve communications with our external investors. I think this pattern we are going to continue and continuously improve. Our goal is to really reinforce communication with our investors. And also, in parallel, we continue to strengthen our balance sheet position for the future to support growth. While we roll out PowerBoost 2030 in 2027, we do expect we should be able to be in a better position to provide additional perspective on our strategy and roadmap during our Q4 earnings call onwards. With that, let me turn the call to Ken Lee, our CFO, to review in more detail about financial results in the quarter.

Unknown Speaker

Thank you, Richard, and good afternoon, everyone. Net sales for the third quarter of 2026 were $202.1 million, a decrease of $1.8 million, or 1%, compared with the third quarter of 2025. Sequentially, net sales increased 32.5%, or $52.5 million, from the second quarter. By end market, power systems sales decreased $6.2 million year-over-year, a significant narrowing from the $34.6 million year-over-year decline in the second quarter. The decrease primarily reflects continued softness in oil and gas, partially offset by higher sales of data center-related products. Transportation sales decreased $1.1 million. Industrial sales increased $5.6 million, primarily reflecting the timing of shipment of certain legacy products, and we do not expect this level of industrial sales to continue.

Gross profit was $59.9 million, an increase of $11.2 million, or 23%, compared with the third quarter of 2025. Gross margin was 29.7% compared with 23.9% in the prior year period. Sequentially, gross profit increased 45%, and gross margin expanded 260 basis points from 27.1% in the second quarter. The increase in gross margin compared with the third quarter of 2025 primarily reflects the benefits of company operational improvement initiatives at its Wisconsin operations, which have reduced the elevated production costs associated with capacity ramp-up activities supporting data center-related applications, as well as a $3.8 million tariff refund recognized as a reduction in cost of sales in the third quarter of 2026, which contributed approximately 188 basis points to gross margin, partially offset by an unfavorable year-over-year product mix resulting from lower oil and gas sales.

These initiatives focus on enhancing manufacturing efficiency, streamlining production processes, improving labor productivity, and strengthening cost controls, resulting in lower manufacturing costs and improved gross margins. Capacity ramp-up activities at the Wisconsin operations are continuing, and the company expects the raised production costs to persist. Gross margin remains subject to product mix, production volume, scrap parts, and other operational factors. We do not expect the third quarter gross margin level, which included a tariff refund, to be sustained in the fourth quarter.

Research and development expense was $5.1 million in the third quarter, compared with $4.8 million in the prior year period. The increase was primarily driven by higher program expenditures to support new programs in 2026. Selling, general, and administrative expense was $13.7 million, a decrease of $1.6 million, or 10%, compared with the third quarter of 2025. The decrease reflected certain prior expenses tied to customer relationship improvement initiatives, offset by higher costs supporting our data center goals. As a percentage of sales, SG&A was 6.8% compared with 7.5% in the prior year period. On that basis, net income as a percentage of net sales was 14.8%, compared with 13.5% in the prior year period and 11.1% in the second quarter.

EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure, was $42.7 million compared with $29.8 million in the prior year period. EBITDA margin was 21.1%, compared with 14.6%. On a sequential basis, EBITDA increased 66% from $25.7 million in the second quarter, and EBITDA margin expanded 420 basis points from 16.9%. EBITDA includes the $3.8 million tariff refund discussed earlier. Operating income was a record $48.9 million, including the $3.8 million tariff refund, an increase of $12.5 million, or 44%, compared with the third quarter of 2025. Operating margin expanded to 20.2% from 13.9%.

Interest expense was $1.0 million, compared with $1.6 million in the prior year period, primarily due to lower average debt balances. Income before income taxes increased 50% to $48.1 million. Income tax expense was $10.2 million compared with an income tax benefit of $0.9 million in the third quarter of 2025. The prior year period included $7 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, tax benefit from the release of a valuation allowance on deferred tax assets. Our effective tax rate was approximately 25.3% in the third quarter. Net income for the third quarter was $29.9 million, or about $1.30 per diluted share, compared with $27.6 million, or $1.20 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2025, which included the $0.30 per diluted share of valuation allowance release I just mentioned.

Turning to cash flow, we generated $40.9 million of operating cash flow in the third quarter, compared with $3.3 million in the prior year period. For the first 9 months of 2026, operating cash flow was $116.6 million compared with $28.7 million in the first 9 months of 2025. Capital expenditures were $2.6 million in the third quarter. Strong cash flow enabled us to reduce total debt by approximately $34.9 million during the quarter, from $72.6 million at June 30 to $37.7 million at September 30, which includes $35 million of borrowings under our new revolving credit facility. With $72 million of cash and cash equivalents, we ended the quarter with net cash of approximately $34 million, compared with net debt of approximately $55 million at the end of 2025.

In October 2026, the company made a payment totaling $20 million under its revolving credit agreement, and as of today, the outstanding balance under the revolving credit agreement is $15 million. In September, we closed a new 3-year, $220 million committed revolving credit facility. It increased our committed borrowing capacity from $135 million and matures in September 2029. Borrowings bear interest at SOFR plus 180 basis points compared with SOFR plus 260 basis points under our prior facility, which was paid in full and terminated at closing. This is an 80-basis-point reduction in our borrowing spread. We appreciate the support of our banking partners and their confidence in PSI. Our balance sheet is solid, and we believe our liquidity position is sufficient to fund the working capital and capital investments required as larger power systems orders move through production.

Turning to our outlook, based on our current production schedule and the information available today, we are raising our outlook. We now expect second-half 2026 net sales to exceed second-half 2025 net sales as larger power systems orders move into production and are recognized as revenue. That compares with our prior expectation for second-half sales to be approximately in line with the second half of 2025. The timing, volume, and mix of shipments, including customer orders, remain subject to customer scheduling, manufacturing throughput, supply chain factors, and other variables, including current material availability constraints affecting certain planned fourth quarter deliveries. There can be no assurance that orders will convert to revenue in any particular quarter.

Looking ahead to the fourth quarter, gross margin is expected to decline from the third quarter because the $3.8 million tariff refund, which contributed approximately 188 basis points to third quarter gross margin, is not expected to recur. In addition to that effect, we expect a modest further reduction in gross margin, primarily reflecting a less favorable product mix. Softness in demand within the oil and gas market is set to continue, so we expect it to be approximately offset for full year 2026 by higher sales of data center products, subject to customer contracting and recognition of the associated revenue by year end.

Data center products generally carry lower gross margins than oil and gas products. We anticipate continued benefits from our operational improvement initiatives, particularly at our Wisconsin facilities. However, continuing ramp-up costs, material availability constraints, production volume, and year-end adjustments, including those arising from inventory counts, may adversely affect gross margin and result in margins below our current expectations. Finally, we expect to provide additional perspectives on 2027 with our fourth quarter results. With that, I will turn the call back to Richard.

Richard Hu

Thank you, Ken. So finally, in closing today, I do have 3 takeaways here from my side. Firstly, I would say the operational improvements we are delivering. If you look at our Wisconsin operational team, I would say the team is keeping up with their strong momentum and good work to continue improving our operational performance and also ramp up capacity on plan. We are on track with that improvement plan. Secondly, I would say, as Ken mentioned before, we do have strong financial firepower prepared to invest in our growth in the future. Today the growth, strong cash flow generation, and also newly settled credit facility give us a solid financial foundation and the flexibility to deliver to our customers and to invest in the growth initiatives that will define PSI 2.0.

Thirdly, I also see, again, we are very well prepared with our balanced and resilient product portfolio and customer mix. Here, please, again, the key words from my side are balanced and resilient when it comes to our product portfolio and customer mix. We do believe when we are continuously maintaining our traditional foundation of the business in industrial oil and gas, in the meantime we also try to work very hard to capture the new incremental data center power growth market as well. Overall, PSI, again, is at a pivotal point today. We are going to evolve from a pure player in traditional industrial oil and gas into becoming a balanced and resilient, wider-range power solution provider. And we are going to walk on our journey with 2 legs: with our traditional industrial oil and gas, but also the new incremental data center power market in North America. The new PowerBoost 2030 will pave the road for the company and will empower our journey ahead. Thank you, and with that, operator, I think we are ready to open the line for Q&A.

Operator

[Operator Instructions]

Our first question comes from the line of Eric Stine of Craig-Hallum Capital Group.

Preguntas y respuestas

Eric Stine

Maybe just touching on your '26 outlook to start. And I know that it's quite high level and you have increased it, but could you talk a little bit about just the moving pieces there? You've got oil and gas still depressed. The enclosure business, you've still made a lot of progress, but still in ramp-up mode. I'm just trying to get a little context as to what the potential magnitude or the puts and takes could be dictating how much improvement you could see over the second half of '25.

Unknown Speaker

So Eric, as we mentioned, we raised our outlook for the second half, right? And previously, we said it's flat versus last year. Now we say the second half will be higher than last year. And just for Q3, it's about a 32.5% sales increase versus Q2. So for oil and gas, I always say it's stabilizing. But definitely we see, we expect to see higher sales for data center products. And this reflects our current production schedule and also the higher expected shipments of data center products in the second half. And on the enclosure side of the business in Wisconsin, we are making improvements in operations, productivity, and efficiency. Definitely, we see growth for the enclosure side of the business plus the genset business to support data centers. And I will not give you a quantitative number on what the percentage increase is versus last year, but definitely we expect it will exceed the second half of last year.

Eric Stine

Okay. Well, maybe sticking with the Wisconsin operations, now that it's basically been a year or a little under a year since you undertook that, you've been making progress and it's been ramping. As you look at that and as you look at where demand is trending and obviously continues to grow, is there a current view on whether you need more capacity in Wisconsin or, given the efficiency improvements that you've made in that current footprint, that's more than sufficient, at least for the time being?

Unknown Speaker

So for Wisconsin, as you know, we increased our footprint pretty significantly. We used to have like 150,000 square feet. Now it's about 800,000 square feet. And some of the facilities are used for warehouse. And we see strong demand for our products, and definitely we think at the current time, we don't think we need to lease more facilities to support the demand, and we are more focused on operational excellence improvements to increase our capability to support the high demand for the enclosure business.

Richard Hu

Yes, just building on—this is Richard speaking, Eric—just building on what Ken mentioned, again with my 80 days at the company, I would agree with what Ken mentioned. I think today the opportunity from Wisconsin in enclosures is rather an internal concept of continuously lifting improvement on operational performance, improvement on OEE, productivity, rather than any additional expansion whatsoever. I think the current team, we are working closely with our enclosure team, monitoring week-by-week how they are doing. Are they on track for productivity improvement? That's exactly where the laser focus is, Eric.

Eric Stine

Okay. Maybe last one for me. Just you mentioned looking at the power gen side, and I know to this point it's predominantly been diesel. So what do you kind of think of how that market's developing, what the overall opportunity might be?

Richard Hu

Yes, I mean, if I may answer the question, I feel overall we are seeing—firstly, the data center power market remains strong, right? We see over the past maybe 24, 48 hours there have been some bumpy dynamics because of the midterm election, whatsoever. But nevertheless, we remain bullish with the medium to long term, this mega wave of data center compute demand, right? That's our foundational perspective. With that being said, we do see I think a new trend from the industry will be like a kind of shifting. The major demand or incremental demand will be a major shift from, let me say, standby diesel, gradually more and more incremental demand will be shifted to natural gas prime power or bridge power. That's what we hear from our customers, and we see that overall as a kind of trend today, Eric.

Eric Stine

Okay, thank you.

Richard Hu

And by the way, before I forget, that's exactly, if you look at our engineering organization focus, that's exactly where we are allocating tremendously incremental resources developing and engineering the natural gas gensets prepared for this upcoming incremental growth.

Operator

[Operator Instructions]

I am seeing no further questions at this time, so I would now like to turn the conference call back over to Richard Hu, the CEO, for the closing remarks for this conference today.

Richard Hu

All right. Thanks, Grace. And again, from my side and the whole PSI leadership team, I want to thank everybody interested in participating in the Q3 earnings call today. As we just mentioned, I think we are excited. We are in the beginning of a new journey, a new era. And please stay tuned. There is more to come. Thank you. Thanks, everybody.

Operator

Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program, and you may now disconnect.

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