Is the price fair?
What AOS's price assumes
A. O. Smith trades at 16.6× earnings against 33.5× for the median Specialty Industrial Machinery name, cheaper than its own group.
16.6
Trailing P/E · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 33.5 · 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.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 4.86
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 13.5
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 2.50
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Specialty Industrial Machinery median P/E47 names
- 33.5
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $648M
- Market capitalisation
- $8.02B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +0.61%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +15%
| Method | Per 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 | $62.48 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #4 of 44 by Smart Score