QualityDipStocks / Industrials · Fluid Controls
Xylem XYL
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 39% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well below our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $121.93+32%
- Market Value
- forming
- Off 52-wk high
- −39%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.63
5 bullish · 4 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $92.40
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$88.23−4.5%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$92.40you are here
- Fair value est.base case$121.93+32.0%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$151.53+64.0%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 15.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 13.0%; bull = 8.5% and 17.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is below even the bear case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, XYL’s free cash flow would need to grow about 10% a year for five years; our estimate uses 15%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much XYL moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 2.3× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.63
- Volatility
- 30% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.27
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.13
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $121.93, 32% above the price.
Cash returnsShare count down 4.5% in a year: $1.6B of buybacks over 12 months.
ValuationP/E of 19.9× vs a 27.5× median for the 130 Industrials companies we cover.
GrowthSales compounded 18% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
ProfitabilityOperating margin widened to 13.5% in FY2025 from 8.9% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
Top bearish points 4 of 5
GrowthSales growth slowed to 2% over the last 12 months, from 18% a year over the prior three fiscal years.
ProfitabilityReturn on invested capital of 8.4%, below the 13% median for the 102 Industrials companies we cover.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 10%, below the 15% median for the 132 Industrials companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%; sales down vs the year-ago quarter.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Xylem in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Fluid Controls
All fundamentals
P/E 19.9 · FCF yield 4.3% · ROE 10%
Valuation
- P/E
- 19.9×Industrials median 27.5×
- Price / FCF
- 23.4×
- FCF yield
- 4.3%
- EV / EBITDA
- 12.6×
- Price / sales
- 2.38×
- Price / book
- 2.10×
- Market cap
- $21.5Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $24.3B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $9.1B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +1.9%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +17.8%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $4.51
- EPS growth, last FY
- +7.4%
- Net income, 12 months
- $1.1B
- Net income growth
- +14%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 39.8%
- Operating margin
- 15.1%
- Net margin
- 11.9%
- FCF margin
- 10.2%
- Return on equity
- 10%
- Return on invested capital
- 8%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $708M
- Total debt
- $3.5B
- Net cash
- −$2.8B
- Debt / equity
- 0.34×
- Interest coverage
- 36.1×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $921M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −0%
- Dividend yield
- 1.88%$405M paid
- Payout ratio
- 37%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $1.6B7.3% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −4.5%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $55M
Trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 30, 2026. From Xylem’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $121.93 · FCF value $102.17
Assumes 15.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 17.8% a year FY22–FY25; capped at 15%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $3.95 a share (trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Oct 27, 2026. Net debt $2.8B, not deducted.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 33 · 5 days −15.0%
The business
FCF $0.9B · Sales −3%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.9B
- Free-cash-flow yield4.4%
- Free-cash-flow margin10%
- Gross margin40%
- Operating margin16%
- Return on invested capital9%
- Return on equity10%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)−3%
- Net debt / EBITDA1.2×
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
XYL is outside our quality screen
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