AOSA. O. Smith

$58.83
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Is the price fair?

What AOS's price assumes

A. O. Smith trades at 15.6× earnings against 31.6× for the median Specialty Industrial Machinery name, cheaper than its own group.

15.6

Trailing P/E · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 31.6 · cheaper than the typical name in its group

Price / sales
2.39

Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1

Free cash flow yield
8.1%

Free cash flow yield · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 3.7%

Growth the price implies
−0.72%

Growth the price implies · The price pays for −0.72% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +15% a year over the last three.

Details
Price / book2026-Q1
4.86
EV / EBIT2026-Q1
13.5
EV / sales2026-Q1
2.50
Industrials median P/E351 names
29.0
Specialty Industrial Machinery median P/E47 names
31.6
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
$648M
Market capitalisation
$8.02B
3-year revenue growth
+0.61%
3-year free cash flow growth
+15%
What the market has paid for these earnings: 37 quarters of its own multiple × $3.76 of trailing earnings per share
MethodPer share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile$71.97
Its own P/E history, median$82.91
Its own P/E history, upper quartile$91.44
52-week range$55.78 – $80.02
Today$58.83

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.