A.O. Smith Corp (NYSE:AOS) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price down by -1.93% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $65.61.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $66.90, falling within a range of $65.535 and $67.25. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.177 whereas the PE ratio was 18.10 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $92.44, and the low was $64.55. On the whole, AOS has fluctuated by -0.50% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of A.O. Smith Corp currently standing at about $9.42 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.32, with its dividend yield at 2.01%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 3.84B, with a low estimate of 921.55M and a high estimate of 988.77M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 950.55M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that AOS’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.80, with the price of AOS currently trading nearly -2.05% and -2.64% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 42.55, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.12% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.27%. Furthermore, A.O. Smith Corp (AOS)’s beta value is 1.26, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.44.
A comparison of A.O. Smith Corp (AOS) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. AOS showed an intraday change of -1.93% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -25.34%%.
Data on historical trading for A.O. Smith Corp (NYSE:AOS) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.31 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.41 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 118.44 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 19.01% of A.O. Smith Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 78.94% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 5.16 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 3.62. According to the data, the short interest in A.O. Smith Corp (AOS) stood at 441.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 5.07 million. The stock has fallen by -3.81% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the AOS stock heading into the next quarter.
