What Xylem Investors Should Keep in Mind

By Blake Campbell • Tuesday, December 12 14:29 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Xylem, a Fluid Controls company whose shares moved 0.7% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Xylem has moved -6.3% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.0%
XYL has an average analyst rating of buy and is -8.53% away from its mean target price of $118.58 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.44
Xylem has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 44.5 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $4.06 and its forward P/E ratio is 26.7
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.63 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Xylem is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.19 and an average P/B of 4.06
XYL has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 846.1% and gross profit margins of 0.4%
The company has a free cash flow of $326.0 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Xylem Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and servicing of engineered products and solutions for the water and wastewater applications in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Water Infrastructure, Applied Water, and Measurement & Control Solutions. The Water Infrastructure segment offers various products, including water, storm water, and wastewater pumps; controls and systems; filtration, disinfection, and biological treatment equipment; and mobile dewatering equipment and rental services under the Flygt, Godwin, Sanitaire, Leopold, Wedeco, and Xylem Vue brand names for the transportation and treatment of water. The Applied Water segment provides pumps, valves, heat exchangers, controls, and dispensing equipment systems under the Goulds Water Technology, Bell & Gossett, A-C Fire Pump, Standard Xchange, Lowara, Jabsco, Xylem Vue, and Flojet brand names for residential and commercial building services, and industrial water applications. The Measurement & Control Solutions segment offers smart meters, networked communication devices, data analytics, test equipment, controls, sensor devices, software and managed services, and critical infrastructure services; and software and services, including cloud-based analytics, remote monitoring and data management, leak detection, condition assessment, asset management, and pressure monitoring solutions, as well as testing equipment. This segment sells its products under the Pure Technologies, Sensus, Smith Blair, WTW, Xylem Vue, and YSI brand names. The company markets and sells its products through a network of direct sales force, resellers, distributors, and value-added solution providers. Xylem Inc. was formerly known as ITT WCO, Inc. and changed its name to Xylem Inc. in May 2011. Xylem Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

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