A. O. Smith Corporation (AOS) on Decifer

Decifer ranks AOS number 276 of 277 tracked names on durable business quality.

Why it ranks here

• It earns strong returns on the money it puts to work, around 24% and those returns have been improving and it turns most of its profit into real cash.
• Revenue is expected to grow about 4% a year, profits grew 6% over the past year, and growth is speeding up, not slowing down.
• It keeps a healthy share of every sale as profit, and that has stayed steady over the years, a sign of real pricing power.
• It is riding an active market tailwind and has the balance sheet to fund its growth.
• It is not watering down its owners with new shares and it returns cash to shareholders.
• Strong returns around 24% are solid, but revenue expected to grow only about 4% a year, momentum of 4 out of 35, and no worldview role keep it low.

The current read

The evidence on AOS lines up on the supportive side: a live market force supports this name through its theme connection. The independent signals we track are telling the same story.

Themes

• Industrials, Reshoring & Transport: A. O. Smith Corporation operates in industrial - machinery. That places it inside the Industrials, Reshoring & Transport story.

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