A. O. Smith Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:AOS)

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for A. O. Smith in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings and 5 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "reduce" AOS shares.
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7 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for A. O. Smith's shares. Their AOS share price targets range from $55.00 to $87.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $70.29 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.4%.
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A. O. Smith's stock was trading at $57.24 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AOS shares have increased by 31.2% and is now trading at $75.10.
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A. O. Smith saw a drop in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,110,000 shares, a drop of 10.4% from the October 15th total of 3,470,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 976,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.2 days. Approximately 2.6% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 30th 2024.
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A. O. Smith Co. (NYSE:AOS) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 26th. The industrial products company reported $0.90 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.79 by $0.11. The industrial products company earned $937.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $910.81 million. A. O. Smith had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 30.76% and a net margin of 7.87%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 7.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.69 earnings per share.
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A. O. Smith announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 9th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, October 31st will be given a dividend of $0.32 per share on Wednesday, November 15th. This represents a $1.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.70%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, October 30th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.30.
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A. O. Smith (NYSE:AOS) pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.69%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 30 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 64.00%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AOS will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.00% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of A. O. Smith (NYSE:AOS) stock in their portfolio include Global X Clean Water ETF (AQWA), Invesco Water Resources ETF (PHO), Ecofin Global Water ESG Fund (EBLU), Subversive Food Security ETF (KCAL), First Trust Water ETF (FIW), Invesco Dorsey Wright Industrials Momentum ETF (PRN), BTD Capital Fund (DIP) and SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB).

A. O. Smith shares split on Thursday, October 6th 2016. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, September 7th 2016. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, October 5th 2016. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

A. O. Smith issued an update on its FY23 earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 26th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.70-3.80 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.62. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.80-3.85 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.80 billion.

10 employees have rated A. O. Smith Chief Executive Officer Kevin J. Wheeler on Glassdoor.com. Kevin J. Wheeler has an approval rating of 82% among the company's employees.

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A. O. Smith's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Impax Asset Management Group plc (2.76%), Invesco Ltd. (2.04%), Morgan Stanley (1.07%), Earnest Partners LLC (1.06%), Northern Trust Corp (0.90%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.86%). Insiders that own company stock include Ajita G Rajendra, Benjamin A Otchere, Bruce M Smith, Daniel L Kempken, David R Warren, Gene C Wulf, Idelle K Wolf, James F Stern, James F Stern, Kevin J Wheeler, Mark A Petrarca, Mark D Smith, Mark R Allen, Michael M Larsen, Robert J Heideman, Ronald D Brown, Samuel M Carver and Wallace E Goodwin.
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