Is it safe?
Can AOS take a bad year?
A. O. Smith carries $412M of net debt at 0.52× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$412M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.52×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.09× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 7.79
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 39.9×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $616M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $204M
- Net debt
- $412M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $795M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $706M
- Debt / equity
- 0.33×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.78×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 26%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −47%
- Below its 52-week high
- −22%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
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