Warning: AOS is at high risk of performing badly
- A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE:AOS) has characteristics which have been historically associated with poor future stock performance. AOS has decelerating momentum and negative EPS revisions when compared to other Industrials stocks, to the point that it gets a Sell rating from our Quant rating system. Stocks rated Sell or worse by our Quant rating system have massively underperformed the S&P 500, as this article will describe.
- The company has 3M Price Performance of -6.67% while the Industrials sector median is 11.75%.
- Due to these factors our quant model has rated A. O. Smith Corporation as Sell and the company has an overall rank of 478 out of 2916 in the Industrials sector. Compared to the S&P 500, stocks rated Sell or worse were down 20% on average per year over the last 10 years.
- If you are looking for alternatives to A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE:AOS) see our top rated Industrials sector stocks by quant rating. Our top rated stocks have beaten the S&P 500 by 1300% over the last 10 years.
- The Sell warnings are based on our Quant Ratings, a systematic quantitative model which generates Seeking Alpha’s Sell ratings. For information about Quant Ratings, backtesting and its limitations, please read more here.
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