13FPulse
AO

AOS SMITH (A.O.) CORP

2026Q2 · CUSIP 831865209 · Sector: Industrials

Normal

Fund flows are within the usual range

Funds that own it
597
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net decrease in holders
33
Last quarter 630 → now 597
How unusual is that
Bottom 20%
Stronger than only 4% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

597 funds held AOS at the end of 2026Q2, down 33 from the quarter before. Fund flows are within the usual range — nothing unusual. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $3.8B(YoY +0.4%), the P/E is 16.5x, return on equity is 27.2%. AOS has had 20 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +6.0% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Industrials sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=254 2013Q4: holders=284 2014Q1: holders=278 2014Q2: holders=249 2014Q3: holders=240 2014Q4: holders=257 2015Q1: holders=283 2015Q2: holders=313 2015Q3: holders=334 2015Q4: holders=367 2016Q1: holders=365 2016Q2: holders=409 2016Q3: holders=427 2016Q4: holders=438 2017Q1: holders=434 2017Q2: holders=427 2017Q3: holders=444 2017Q4: holders=469 2018Q1: holders=497 2018Q2: holders=499 2018Q3: holders=504 2018Q4: holders=491 2019Q1: holders=513 2019Q2: holders=476 2019Q3: holders=452 2019Q4: holders=463 2020Q1: holders=436 2020Q2: holders=474 2020Q3: holders=478 2020Q4: holders=517 2021Q1: holders=525 2021Q2: holders=540 2021Q3: holders=529 2021Q4: holders=579 2022Q1: holders=585 2022Q2: holders=543 2022Q3: holders=539 2022Q4: holders=531 2023Q1: holders=545 2023Q2: holders=585 2023Q3: holders=577 2023Q4: holders=634 2024Q1: holders=653 2024Q2: holders=642 2024Q3: holders=653 2024Q4: holders=642 2025Q1: holders=656 2025Q2: holders=633 2025Q3: holders=630 2025Q4: holders=648 2026Q1: holders=630 2026Q2: holders=597 -57 -28.5 +0 +28.5 +57 216453689 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 20 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2025Q1 Top 20% +3.8% -9.3%
2024Q1 Top 20% -5.5% -15.0%
2023Q4 Top 10% +7.4% +1.5%
2023Q2 Top 5% +8.7% +16.2%
2023Q1 Top 20% +2.5% +10.8%
2021Q4 Top 10% -19.8% -10.5%
2021Q2 Top 20% +17.9% +3.7%
2020Q4 Top 20% +18.5% +21.8%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
246
Change in large funds
+7
Total value they hold
$7.9B
Funds buying for the first time
75
Funds that sold out entirely
108
Price change that quarter
+4.9%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
9
Funds holding calls (bullish)
7

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
16.5
EPS (TTM)
$3.59
EPS YoY
0.0%
Revenue (TTM)
$3.8B
Revenue YoY
+0.4%
Net margin
13.2%
ROE
27.2%
Debt ratio
49.5%
FCF (TTM)
$639M
Dividend (TTM)
$1.42
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2022-09-30: EPS 0.71 2022-12-31: EPS -0.77 2023-03-31: EPS 0.84 2023-06-30: EPS 1.04 2023-09-30: EPS 0.90 2023-12-31: EPS 0.91 2024-03-31: EPS 1.00 2024-06-30: EPS 1.06 2024-09-30: EPS 0.82 2024-12-31: EPS 0.75 2025-03-31: EPS 0.95 2025-06-30: EPS 1.07 2025-09-30: EPS 0.94 2025-12-31: EPS 0.89 2026-03-31: EPS 0.85 2026-06-30: EPS 0.91 0B 0.5B 1.0B $B -0.85 0.17 1.18 201720182019202020212022202320242025202606/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 20 13 26 38 2023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-28M106M241M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $119M (2026-03-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-06-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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