Xylem Inc.

XYL Industrials Specialty Industrial Machinery

Xylem Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $9.0 billion, up 5.52% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 1.52%, EPS grew 19.4%, free cash flow grew 1.93% and total debt rose 46.6%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years, revenue growth for five; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

104.06 0.69 +0.67%
Market cap
$24.1B
P/E
24.8×
Fwd P/E
24.1×
Dividend yield
1.62%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
4.39
Beneish M
−2.50
Dividend safety
81/100

Xylem Inc. (XYL) Operating margin

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Xylem Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 14.5%, up 0.9 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (13.5%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 7.53% (fiscal 2020) to 13.5% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is above the Specialty Industrial Machinery industry median of 11.2% and above the Industrials sector median of 5.13%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 13.5% 1.76
FY2024 11.8% 2.93
FY2023 8.85% (2.41)
FY2022 11.3% 0.00
FY2021 11.3% 3.73
FY2020 7.53% (1.73)
FY2019 9.26% (3.30)
FY2018 12.6% 0.83
FY2017 11.7% 0.91
FY2016 10.8% (1.47)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 16.7% 5.22
Mar 2026 11.5% (3.25)
Dec 2025 14.7% 0.00
Sep 2025 14.7% 1.47
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Against its own ten years

Low 7.53% High 13.5%
Ten-year median 11.3%
Current reading's percentile 100

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
GGG Graco Inc. compare 28.1%
NDSN Nordson Corporation compare 26.9%
IEX IDEX Corporation compare 20.7%
IR Ingersoll Rand Inc. compare 18.1%
DOV Dover Corporation compare 16.9%
OTIS Otis Worldwide Corporation compare 15.4%
XYL Xylem Inc. 14.5%
ITT ITT Inc. compare 14.4%
SYM Symbotic Inc. compare −0.01%
Specialty Industrial Machinery industry median 11.2%
Industrials sector median 5.13%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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