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

43.50 0.35 −0.80%
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) Return on invested capital

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Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Cor's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 13.4%, up 3.7 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (9.69%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.00% (fiscal 2022) to 11.8% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 93% of that period. That is above the Pollution & Treatment Controls industry median of −0.06% and above the Industrials sector median of 1.86%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 9.69% 1.58
FY2024 8.11% 2.01
FY2023 6.10% 2.80
FY2022 3.30% 3.30
FY2022 0.00% (11.75)
FY2021 11.8% 11.75
FY2021 0.00% 0.00
FY2020 0.00% (2.94)
FY2020 2.94% (5.84)
FY2019 8.78% 1.77

Against its own ten years

Low 0.00% High 11.8%
Ten-year median 5.88%
Current reading's percentile 93

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
VLTO Veralto Corporation compare 18.1%
ZWS Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Cor 13.4%
ERII Energy Recovery, Inc. compare 0.59%
ADUR Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. compare 0.00%
CECO CECO Environmental Corp. compare −0.12%
CDZI Cadiz, Inc. compare −15.1%
ARQ Arq, Inc. compare −15.9%
FTEK Fuel Tech, Inc. compare −16.5%
PCT PureCycle Technologies, Inc. compare −33.1%
Pollution & Treatment Controls industry median −0.06%
Industrials sector median 1.86%
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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