A.O. Smith Corp (AOS) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $73.94, with 4.19 million shares of worth about $309.9 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 4.18% during that period and on July 24, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 3.59%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 142.11M shares, out of which, 114.27M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 4.51% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 13.86%. Year-to-date (YTD), AOS shares are showing a performance of -16.74% which increased to 8.40% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $58.83 but also hit the highest price of $92.06 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for A.O. Smith Corp shares is 1.68 million. The stock is currently trading 7.48% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 10.40% for SMA50 and it goes to 6.59% higher than SMA200.
A.O. Smith Corp (NYSE: AOS) currently have 142.11M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 80.34% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $10.51B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.22. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 20.62, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.59 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.30 and has Quick Ratio of 1.03 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18. 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 3.00% while standing at 2.33% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that A.O. Smith Corp (AOS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.92 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.94 and it is 4.19 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.82 which is 0.97 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.82 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 2.52% while it is estimated to increase by 10.18% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 6.24% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 10.33% 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 JP Morgan on June 24, 2025 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $70 to it. Coverage by Oppenheimer stated A.O. Smith Corp (AOS) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on January 14, 2025, suggesting a price target of $88 for the stock. On October 23, 2024, UBS Upgrade their recommendations, while on October 23, 2024, DA Davidson Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $80. Stock get a Buy rating from Stifel on July 24, 2024.
