The sale process for Siemens Energy’s steam turbine division is crystallizing into a competitive auction, with a consortium of the world’s largest infrastructure investors circling a business that could now command a price tag north of €10 billion — a figure that has climbed sharply as artificial intelligence’s electricity appetite redraws the sector’s growth outlook.
Shares in the Munich-based energy technology group climbed 2.4 percent to €152.78 on Tuesday, recovering ground after a turbulent fortnight in which the board’s strategic deliberations had knocked the stock. Bloomberg reports that CVC, EQT, Bain Capital, Brookfield and KKR have all expressed interest in taking a majority stake in the “Transformation of Industry” unit, with Goldman Sachs mandated to run the process.
The division, which manufactures steam turbines, generators and compressors, generated €5.7 billion in revenue last fiscal year. A sale of a majority interest at a valuation above €10 billion would mark a substantial step up from the €8 billion ceiling an RBC analyst had estimated as recently as June — a gap that underscores how quickly buyer enthusiasm has built.
For shareholders, the headline figure matters beyond the immediate transaction. A successful disposal would hand Siemens Energy substantial firepower to expand its core grid technology and gas turbine operations, the businesses that management has identified as the company’s growth engine. The board had weighed a full spin-off of the industrial unit at a meeting roughly a week ago, a prospect that initially weighed on the shares, but the emergence of a concrete buyer circle now offers a more surgical alternative: selling a majority stake without severing the division entirely.
The improved valuation also reflects a broader shift in the demand picture. UBS has raised its forecast for global artificial intelligence investment in 2027 to $1.2 trillion, a 15 percent increase over its previous estimate. Data centers consume enormous volumes of electricity, and while the steam turbine business is not the core beneficiary of that trend, the AI-powered demand surge is lifting the entire energy equipment complex.
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The stock’s technical position tells the story of a share caught between competing forces. It trades just below its 50-day moving average of €155.63 but above the 200-day average of €150.14. The closing price on Monday stood at €149.20 after a 2.7 percent daily decline, leaving the stock down 3.4 percent on the week and roughly 24 percent below its 52-week high of €195.38, reached in April. Tuesday’s advance, however, has trimmed that distance to around 22 percent.
That recent softness stands in contrast to the underlying operational momentum. Siemens Gamesa, the wind power subsidiary, turned profitable for the first time since 2022, according to media reports — a milestone that arrived amid the market’s focus on structural questions rather than operating results. Year-to-date, the shares remain up 24 percent, evidence that the recent pullback looks more like a correction within an uptrend than a reversal of fortune.
The company also closed the books on a share buyback program on August 14, having repurchased just over 6.4 million shares, equivalent to 0.751 percent of share capital. The program, running since early June, signals that management sees sufficient financial flexibility to return capital to shareholders even as it navigates the portfolio overhaul.
Sell-side sentiment remains constructive despite the structural uncertainty. Bernstein Research reaffirmed its “Outperform” rating with a €210 price target on August 21, while RBC trimmed its target from €210 to €200 the previous day but held its “Outperform” stance. Both sit comfortably above the current trading level.
The supervisory board must still sign off on the path forward, and until a binding agreement with one of the named investors materializes, the shares are likely to remain sensitive to every development in the bidding process. Tuesday’s supervisory board meeting was expected to weigh whether to formalize the majority-sale route or keep alternative options on the table — a decision that could determine whether the stock shakes off its recent sluggishness.
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