XYL

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Xylem Inc. Common Stock New
Industrials · Specialty Industrial Machinery · NYSE · United States
$108.64+0.73%
Market cap $25.4BNext earnings 2026-10-27Updated Sep 21, 2026
FAIR VALUE · CONSENSUS
$108.64+0.0%
confidence-weighted across 4 of 6 models
Now $108.64
$108.64
$65.87$137.66
Hold
Price vs fair value
1.3% below
+1.3% to fair value
ACCE score
47
out of 100
Analysts
64% buy
22 covering
P/E
25.9x
forward 17.4x
1-year return
-24.1%
Dividend yield
1.59%
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Overview

⚠ Investor warnings · 4 flags
  • high
    Debt/Equity extremely elevated
    Debt/Equity of 18.35 is exceptionally high for an industrial machinery company, signaling heavy leverage and financial risk.
  • high
    Momentum score near floor
    ACCE Momentum score of 17/100 indicates severe price/trend deterioration, a meaningful near-term risk signal.
  • moderate
    Sequential revenue decline
    QoQ revenue growth of -11.3% signals a sharp quarter-over-quarter deceleration despite modest 2.7% YoY growth.
  • moderate
    Low overall ACCE score
    Overall ACCE score of 44/100 with Growth at 39 suggests weak fundamental momentum across multiple dimensions.
Reports in 33 days, last quarter beat by 0.1%.

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Price

-23.2% · 1Y

Valuation

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Wall Street consensus

Bullish64% buy · 22 covering analysts
● Strong buy 9● Buy 5● Hold 8● Sell 0● Strong sell 0
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Where it sits vs peers

This stock Peer Peer median weaker → stronger
P/Ebetter than 50% of peers
low 17.1x25.9xhigh 1092.3x
ROEbetter than 50% of peers
low 0%9%high 15%
Div yieldbetter than 50% of peers
low 0.0%1.6%high 11.0%

Algorithmic peers (6)

TickerCompanyMcapP/EROED/EYieldQuality
DOVDover Corporation Common Stock$25.5B22.814.9%0.451.1%-
OTISOtis Worldwide Corporation Common Stock $25.9B17.10.0%-1.482.5%-
6273.TSMC$26.4B25.79.8%0.231.5%-
SYMSymbotic Inc. Class A Common Stock$26.4B1092.34.4%0.030.0%-
IRIngersoll Rand Inc. Common Stock$29.6B31.59.5%0.4711.0%-
6594.TNidec$20.8B27.46.3%40.101.9%-

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News and Record

Reports in 33 days, last quarter beat by 0.1%.

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Recent performance

1 week
+1.3%
1 month
-4.9%
3 months
-7.1%
6 months
-7.6%
YTD
-20.2%
1 year
-24.1%

SEC filings

40 filings
September 2026
Sep 9
8-KCurrent reportPeriod 2026-09-08
Sep 2
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-01
Sep 2
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-01
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