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Xylem Inc. — Intrinsic Value & Fair Price

XYL
NYSEIndustrialsIndustrial - MachineryCIK 0001524472xylem.comAbout XYL
Last close · Oct 16, 2026104.07+0.70 (+0.68%)
Market cap$24.3B
Model value · DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y
86.06
Xylem closed at $104.07 — overvalued by 21% vs model.
58.80the model's range170.68

DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y leads for mature & stable — positive operating income and three years of positive free cash flow. From a five-year discounted cash flow.

Other models
33.79 – 196.78
Wall St. target
144.50 28% below
Above model, 1y
9 of 20 days

Price and model value

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Dividends

Quarterly · as of Oct 16, 2026
Yield, trailing 12 months
1.62%
Past 2 years
low 1.01%high 1.68%
Dividends per share, a year at a time
$1.10Aug ’21$1.18Aug ’22$1.29Aug ’23$1.41Aug ’24$1.56Aug ’25$1.69TTM
Dividends / free cash flow, FY2025
43.0%
Raised
13 years in a row
Growth, 5 yrs
9.0% a year
Last change
+7.5% · Feb 2026
Every payment, with ex-dates · latest $0.43, paid Sep 24, 2026

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How it is valued

Valued asMature & Stable
Moderate growth (~11% recent)Moderate margins (11% net margin)Pays dividendsHighly cyclical earnings
What growth the price implies: the reverse DCF

Key figures

FY2025
P/E
26.5×
EV / EBITDA
13.9×
FCF yield
3.6%
Dividend yield, TTM
1.62%
Beta
0.99
Cost of capital (WACC)
8.83%
On the lists: #19 Near 52-week lows
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Analyst actions

third-party, quoted
10-13Barclays · target139.00
10-05UBS · target112.00
08-24Jefferies · target150.00
06-25Jefferies · “Buy” from “Hold”upgrade
Ratings, targets and estimates

Comparable companies

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1 more company lists XYL as a comparable

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About Xylem

Xylem Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and servicing of engineered products and solutions for utility, industrial, and residential and commercial building services settings worldwide. It operates through Water Infrastructure; Applied Water; Measurement and Control Solutions; and Water Solutions and Services segments. The company offers water, wastewater, and storm water pumps and controls and systems; filtration, disinfection, and biological treatment equipment under the Flygt, Ionpure, Leopold, Neptune Benson, Sanitare, Wallace & Tiernan, and Wedeco brands; and pumps, valves, heat exchangers, controls, and dispensing equipment used for water and focuses on the residential, commercial and industrial markets under the Rule, Bell & Gossett, Flojet, Goulds Water Technology, Jabsco, and Lowara brands. It also provides smart meters, network communication devices, data analytics, test instruments, controls, sensor devices, software and managed services, critical infrastructure services, cloud-based analytics, and remote monitoring and data management under the Ebro, Sensus, Sentec, Smith Blair, WTW, YSI, and Xylem Vue brands. In addition, the company offers preventative maintenance services, rapid response mobile services, digitally enabled/outsourced solutions, process and wastewater treatment systems, environmental remediation, odor and corrosion control, filtration, reverse osmosis, continuous deionization, and mobile dewatering equipment and rental services; and municipal services comprising odor and corrosion control services, as well as condition assessment and asset management, and pressure monitoring solutions under the Grindex, Mar Cor, and Godwin brands. Xylem Inc. was formerly known as ITT WCO, Inc. and changed its name to Xylem Inc. in July 2011. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, District Of Columbia.

CEO
Matthew F. Pine
Headquarters
Washington, DC
Employees
22,000
IPO
2011-10-13
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