New York, January 8, 2026, 14:42 EST — Regular session
Shares of Eaton Corporation plc (ETN) fell about 0.8% on Thursday after Barclays lowered its price target on the power-management company. Barclays analyst Julian Mitchell cut the target to $350 from $362 and kept an Equal Weight rating, an in-line call; Eaton was down $2.53 at $320.14 in afternoon trade. 1
The move lands as investors keep tying the stock to the path of U.S. interest rates and the durability of data-center spending. Fed Governor Stephen Miran said he is looking for about 150 basis points, or 1.5 percentage points, of cuts this year. 2
Financial markets were pricing about a 10% chance of a rate cut at the Fed’s Jan. 27-28 meeting, rising to roughly 55% by late April, Reuters reported. The Chicago Fed estimated the December unemployment rate at 4.6%, ahead of the official data due Friday. 3
Eaton slid 3.1% on Wednesday to $322.67, leaving it about 19% below its 52-week high reached in late July, MarketWatch data showed. The industrials ETF XLI was up 0.7% on Thursday, while data-center cooling provider Vertiv fell 6.8% and electrical equipment maker Hubbell lost about 2%; Emerson added about 1%. 4
Eaton also pointed to supply-chain execution. The company said Tuesday it was named one of Resilinc’s Top 30 Most Resilient Suppliers for the fourth year running. Chris Pinnegar, Eaton’s vice president for global supplier performance, cited a focus on “minimizing risk and disruption,” while Resilinc’s Rick Freeman called Eaton’s record “exceptional supply chain resilience.” 5
The company has been bulking up in data-center infrastructure, where it sells equipment that manages and distributes power. In November it agreed to buy Boyd Corp’s thermal business for $9.5 billion; RBC Capital Markets analyst Deane Dray said the deal showed Eaton had gone “all-in” in liquid cooling. CEO Paulo Ruiz said the combined offering would link power and cooling “from the chip to the grid.” 6
But investors are still trying to pin down how much of the AI buildout is pull-forward demand, and how much sticks when budgets tighten. Any stumble on margins, project timing or integration could bite harder in a stock that has traded like a growth proxy.
The next big catalyst is Friday’s U.S. employment report at 8:30 a.m. EST, which could reset rate expectations that have been driving the day-to-day tape for industrial growth names. 7
