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A. O. Smith earns 24% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
24%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 15 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 19%
Operating margin · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 15% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.23×
Cash conversion · 0.78× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −3.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 17% |
| FY2021 | 19% |
| FY2022 | 9.6% |
| FY2023 | 19% |
| FY2024 | 19% |
| FY2025 | 19% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 39%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 19%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 14%
- Free cash flow margin
- 17%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.81B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $648M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $528M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 24%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #4 of 44 by Smart Score