Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Cor

ZWS Industrials Pollution & Treatment Controls

Revenue
+8.72%
EPS
+27.5%
Free cash flow
+9.05%
Total debt
+0.79%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

43.70 0.15 −0.34%
Market cap
$7.2B
P/E
25.2×
Fwd P/E
26.2×
Dividend yield
1.00%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
5.00
Beneish M
−2.86
Dividend safety
78/100

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Cor (ZWS) Operating margin

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Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Cor's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 22.1%, up 5.6 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (16.5%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 8.36% (fiscal 2022) to 24.4% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 85% of that period. That is above the Pollution & Treatment Controls industry median of −17.5% and above the Industrials sector median of 5.21%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 16.5% 0.84
FY2024 15.6% 3.10
FY2023 12.5% 4.15
FY2022 8.36% (10.83)
FY2022 19.2% 7.44
FY2021 11.8% (12.62)
FY2021 24.4% 9.71
FY2020 14.7% (0.24)
FY2019 14.9% 0.51
FY2018 14.4% 2.52

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 21.9% (9.17)
Jun 2026 31.0% 12.06
Mar 2026 19.0% 4.13
Dec 2025 14.8% (2.19)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 8.36% High 24.4%
Ten-year median 14.4%
Current reading's percentile 98

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
ZWS Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Cor 22.1%
VLTO Veralto Corporation compare 21.8%
ERII Energy Recovery, Inc. compare 0.78%
ADUR Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. compare 0.00%
CECO CECO Environmental Corp. compare −0.60%
FTEK Fuel Tech, Inc. compare −17.9%
ARQ Arq, Inc. compare −38.6%
CDZI Cadiz, Inc. compare −236.1%
PCT PureCycle Technologies, Inc. compare −1,313.8%
Pollution & Treatment Controls industry median −17.5%
Industrials sector median 5.21%
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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