US Equities Analysis

AOS — A. O. Smith

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 17.11%
Profit Margins 13.84%
Return on Equity 28.27%
Return on Assets 12.78%
Free Float 0.11B
Dividend Yield 2.30%
Short Int % Utilisation 7.63%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth -1.9%
Free Cash Flow 0.5B
EBITDA 10.49 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 8.34B
EV/Revenue 2.19
EV/EBITDA 10.49

Revenue growth of -1.9% suggests mature or challenged top-line momentum.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* -8.97%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 26.42%
1-Year Price Return* -11.98%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $62.17
52-Week Range $54.16 – $81.87
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $61.40
Market capitalisation $8.34B
Enterprise value proxy $8.34B
Revenue $3.83B
EBIT $728.60M
EBITDA $813.70M
Reported free cash flow $546.00M
Unlevered free cash flow $533.75M
FCF yield 6.54%
EV / EBITDA proxy 10.25x
Net debt / EBITDA -0.00x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 1.16
Cost of equity 11.09%
Pre-tax cost of debt 6.60%
WACC 10.95%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 4/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:26:38.865188 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2025-12-31 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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