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) Return on invested capital

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Xylem Inc.'s return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 6.84%, up 0.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (6.39%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 3.56% (fiscal 2023) to 10.5% (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Specialty Industrial Machinery industry median of 5.36% and above the Industrials sector median of 2.30%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 6.39% 0.93
FY2024 5.46% 1.90
FY2023 3.56% (5.06)
FY2022 8.62% 0.28
FY2021 8.34% 2.86
FY2020 5.48% (1.18)
FY2019 6.66% (1.87)
FY2018 8.53% 0.52
FY2017 8.01% 2.03
FY2016 5.98% (4.50)

Against its own ten years

Low 3.56% High 10.5%
Ten-year median 6.66%
Current reading's percentile 45

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
OTIS Otis Worldwide Corporation compare 69.4%
GGG Graco Inc. compare 19.7%
NDSN Nordson Corporation compare 10.2%
DOV Dover Corporation compare 9.64%
IEX IDEX Corporation compare 8.84%
XYL Xylem Inc. 6.84%
IR Ingersoll Rand Inc. compare 6.48%
ITT ITT Inc. compare 5.35%
SYM Symbotic Inc. compare 0.00%
Specialty Industrial Machinery industry median 5.36%
Industrials sector median 2.30%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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