A.O. Smith Corporation (AOS): Price and Financial Metrics

AOS POWR Grades

• AOS scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 97.55% of US stocks.
• AOS's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 48 weeks.
• AOS ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 22nd percentile.

AOS Stock Summary

• Smith A O Corp's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.67% of US equities in our set.
• Of note is the ratio of Smith A O Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.65% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -55.96%, Smith A O Corp's debt growth rate surpasses only 7.52% of about US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Smith A O Corp are HSIC, AAP, COLM, EME, and MHK.
• AOS's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Smith A O Corp's official web site, go to www.aosmith.com.

AOS Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, AOS's price/sales ratio is 105.88% higher, now standing at 3.5.
• Over the past 243 months, AOS's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 7.1.
• AOS's price/sales ratio has moved up 3.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AOS.

AOS Growth Metrics

• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 25.31%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 8.52%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 5.07%.

Over the past 70 months, AOS's revenue has gone up $699,400,000.

The table below shows AOS's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	3,223.3	578.8	441.3
2021-03-31	3,027.4	612.4	390.9
2020-12-31	2,895.3	562.1	344.9
2020-09-30	2,811.7	506.6	316.2
2020-06-30	2,779.9	491.8	298.1
2020-03-31	2,881.4	488.7	332.4

AOS's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AOS has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 97.55% of graded US stocks.
• AOS's asset turnover comes in at 1.042 -- ranking 21st of 50 Consumer Goods stocks.
• MOV, CTHR, and HOFT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AOS.

The table below shows AOS's key quality metrics over time.