A.O. Smith Corp (AOS) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $67.31, with 3.23 million shares of worth about $217.09 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -21.23% during that period and on January 30, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -2.76%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 145.84M shares, out of which, 117.95M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -5.56% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -1.64%. Year-to-date (YTD), AOS shares are showing a performance of -1.32% which decreased to -17.56% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $67.17 but also hit the highest price of $92.44 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for A.O. Smith Corp shares is 1.09 million. The stock is currently trading -3.50% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -5.21% for SMA50 and it goes to -15.49% lower than SMA200.
A.O. Smith Corp (NYSE: AOS) currently have 145.84M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 77.88% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $9.76B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.16. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 17.76, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.79 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.34 and has Quick Ratio of 1.02 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AOS, volatility over the week remained 2.20% while standing at 2.09% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 5.94% while it is estimated to increase by 9.23% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 7.59% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 7.40% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Oppenheimer on January 14, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $88 to it. Coverage by UBS stated A.O. Smith Corp (AOS) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on October 23, 2024, suggesting a price target of $80 for the stock. On October 23, 2024, DA Davidson Downgrade their recommendations, while on July 24, 2024, Stifel Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $98. Stock get a Neutral rating from Seaport Research Partners on August 07, 2023.
