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The short versionA high-quality, profitable business with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Brings in more cash than it spends
- Buying back shares: share count down 8.9% in 3 years
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 7.6% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (304 bought, 317 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$61.93+0.5% that day
- Company value
- $8.6B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 17.2x
- You pay about $17 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 2.3x
- Company value is 2.3 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 2.2%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 2%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 2%
- Debt as a share of company value
From AOS's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Jun '26$1.0B-0.7% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $3.8B, up 0.4% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 5.8% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- PassReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.29.2%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.08x equity
- PassNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.14.3%
- PassProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.10 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$616.8M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-8.9% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.38.8%
- Revenue
- $3.8B
- +0.3% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +5.8%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $155.0M
- 0.08x equity
- Current ratio
- 1.50x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Jun 30, 2026- Revenue
- $1.0B
- -0.7% YoY
- EPS
- $0.91
- vs $1.07
- Op. margin
- 16.5%
- -3.9 pts
- Gross margin
- 38.6%
- -0.7 pts
- Free cash flow
- $114.4M
- Share count
- -3.2%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
0/ 100
- This week
- 0
- Normal week
- 0.3
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+7.6%Institutions added 7.6% to their holdings. 304 bought, 317 sold. 3 quarters of net buying in a row.
Shares held by institutions126.6M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-3.1%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.3x · $637.5M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
76MNext reportIn 0 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 30
- Results filedApr 30
- Results filedJan 29
- Results filedOct 28, 2025
- Results filedJul 24, 2025
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.