A. O. Smith Corporation
Rank #131ValueAOS · NYSE · Industrials
A. O. Smith Corporation (AOS) — Rank #131 by gross profitability (GP/assets 0.41) · ROE 29.7% · Piotroski F-Score 8 / 9.
As-of 2026-09-15 · CIK 0000091142 · all metrics point-in-time as of the filing date.
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O. Smith Corporation manufactures and markets residential and commercial gas and electric water heaters, boilers, heat pumps, tanks, and water treatment products in North America, China, Europe, and India. The company offers water heaters for residences, restaurants, hotels, office buildings, laundries, car washes, and small businesses; boilers for hospitals, schools, hotels, homes, apartments, and condominiums, and other large commercial buildings; and water treatment products comprising point-of-entry water softeners, well water solutions, and whole-home water filtration products, and point-of-use carbon and reverse osmosis products for residences, restaurants, hotels, and offices. It also provides commercial water treatment and filtration products; expansion tanks, commercial solar water heating systems, swimming pool and spa heaters, and related products and parts; and electric wall-hung, gas tankless, combi-boiler, and heat pump and solar water heaters. The company offers its products under the A. O. Smith, State, Lochinvar, Hague, Water-Right, Master Water, Atlantic Filter, Impact, and Water Tec brands. It distributes its products through independent wholesale plumbing distributors, as well as to retail channels consisting of hardware and home center chains, and manufacturer representative firms, as well as offers Aquasana branded products directly to consumers through e-commerce channels; and A. O. Smith branded water treatment products through dealer network and Amazon. A. O.
Smith Corporation was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Industry
- Specialty Industrial Machinery
- Sector
- Industrials
- State
- DE
- Filer Category
- Large accelerated filer
- Fiscal Year End
- December 31
- Website
- aosmith.com
Financials
Stable
Direction over 5 fiscal years
- Free cash flowstable
- Gross marginstable
- Gross profitabilityimproving
- Net cashdeteriorating
- Operating marginimproving
- Return on equityimproving
- Share count (dilution)improving
Red flags: fcf_ni_divergence_unfavorable — rating capped at Stable
Monitoring diagnostic of business direction — not a prediction of returns.
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| Fiscal year end | 2025-12-31filed 2026-02-10 | 2024-12-31filed 2026-02-10 | 2023-12-31filed 2024-02-13 | 2022-12-31filed 2023-02-14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||
| Revenue | 3,830.2 | 3,818.1 | 3,852.8 | 3,753.9 |
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 0.3% | 0.3% | 2.6% | 6.1% |
| Gross profit | 1,487.4 | 1,487.4 | 1,484.8 | 1,329.6 |
| Gross margin | 38.8% | 38.8% | 38.5% | 35.4% |
| Net income | 546.2 | 533.6 | 556.6 | 235.7 |
| Net margin | 14.3% | 14.3% | 14.4% | 6.3% |
| EPS (diluted) | $3.85 | $3.63 | $3.69 | $1.51 |
| EPS growth (YoY) | 6.1% | -1.6% | 144.4% | — |
| Cash flow | ||||
| Operating cash flow | 616.8 | 581.8 | 670.3 | 391.4 |
| Capital expenditures | 70.8 | — | 72.6 | 70.3 |
| Free cash flow | 546.0 | 546.0 | 597.7 | 321.1 |
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