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Xylem: New ship (no warning signs)New ship

Xylem $XYL

Grew revenue 5.5% in FY2025 to $9.0 billion, operating margin 13.5%, in line with the 13.5% median for pumps & pumping equipment, equity 65.1% of assets, and dividend per share up 11 years running.

Last filing10-Q, 27 Oct 2026

Next year, 80%$8.5B–$11.4B
Growth, on the year5.5%
Operating margin13.5%
Equity of assets65.1%
Credibility50%
Track record11 of 13
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🫧 Edgar looked up Xylem Inc. ($XYL). Last filing: 10-Q, 2026-10-27. 11 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $9.0B (FY2025), total debt $2.0B. Experience: revenue up 5.5% on the year, up 14.8% a year over 4 years; operating margin 13.5%, up from 11.8%. Soundness: equity 65.1% of assets, return on equity 8.3%, payout 40.9% of profit, dividend per share up 11 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $8.5B and $11.4B next year (method v4.1: its own 4-year record of growth weighed at 50% against $1B–10B filers; across 2019–2025, 69.0% landed inside, 83.4% on the one year the method never saw). In a shock year the stress range is $7.7B to $12.6B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (23 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 13.5% against a 13.5% median; growth 5.5% against 5.8%.

Read from its own SEC filings · nothing written, nothing inferred

Xylem Inc. against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 13.5%13.5%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 5.8%5.5%Equity of assetsPeer median 50.1%65.1%Return on equityPeer median 8.9%8.3%Payout of profitPeer median 34.1%40.9%Gold tick: the median of 11–22 peers with $50M+ revenue in pumps & pumping equipment
Handed back now, or kept to compound · of each dollar of profit
40.9% paid out59.1% keptHanded back per share$1.6up 11 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund4.9%managed 5.5% last year

Gold paid out, navy kept. Kept share × return on equity = the growth it can fund itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

Speed and cash · fiscal 2025

Cash Compass🌱 Cash cow later · growing fast, and already turning revenue into cash
Inside viewTurns 13.7% of revenue into operating cash; revenue growing 17.8% a year over three years; pays and raised its dividend.
Outside viewAmong $1B-10B companies: 48th percentile for cash, 85th for growth. cash growth

Both views must agree for a label · a description, not advice.

Cash flow (op · inv · fin · free)$1.2B · −$471M · −$501M · $910M
Investment book (cash · short · long)$1.5B · — · — · current ratio 1.63
Revenue swing · equity of assets10.9% · 65.1%

Xylem is growing faster than its size class, with revenue that swings more. Its own audited SEC figures.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2025-12-31
Revenue$9.0B
Revenue, on the year5.5%
Revenue, a year over the record14.8%
Operating margin13.5%
Operating margin, prior year11.8%
Net margin10.6%
Research and development$226M · 2.5% of revenue
Total debt$2.0B
Equity of assets65.1%
Return on equity8.3%
Payout of profit40.9%
Dividend per share$1.6 · up 11 years running
Earnings per share$3.93
Book value per share$47.05
Revenue per share$37.03
Shares outstanding243,994,000
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 23 filers with $50M+ revenue in pumps & pumping equipment.

Classic signals · fiscal 2025Altman Z″ 3.86 safe zone 1968Piotroski F 7 of 9 solid 2000Beneish M -2.49 below the −1.78 line 1999Sloan accruals -1.7% earnings backed by cash 1996DuPont ROE 8.7% = margin 10.6% × turns 0.53 × leverage 1.54

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Health HarborXylem sails as: New ship

Health watch · 12 monthsDirector or officer change ×3

Sailing speed follows growth: 17.8% a year crosses the harbor in 30 seconds.

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No warning signs on the measures below.

Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an operating loss; negative free cash flow outside regulated utilities; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.

Brand success factors · calendar 2025

The Trillion Score: 557

Exponential Success Score

Built on over $200 trillion of sworn revenue, 13 years of data, 770,002 figures. Sealed by Edgarette.

How The Trillion Score works. We read eight measures of success from Xylem's own SEC filings and test each one against the public companies in its field, here general industrial machinery & equipment. The longer and fuller the record, the more weight those results carry. A model built on past filings then turns them into the odds of thriving, which means outgrowing the field for three years without a severe decline. A score of 500 is about average, and every 100 points doubles the odds. Every company is ranked on this same scale.

What it says here. At 557, Xylem's odds of thriving come to 46%, against about 37% for the typical filer. It meets 5 of 8 success points.

557The Trillion Score
46%modeled odds of thriving over three years
MediumFall Risk
#5 of 29rank in its field
#541 of 2,824rank across all filers

What the score means

The higher the score, the more often companies went on to thrive. At this level, about 44 of every 100 did.

31%Under 45035%450 to 49938%500 to 54944%550 to 599This company: 55757%600 and up

Share of companies that beat their field for three years with no severe decline, tested on 2019 to 2022 filings.

Fall Risk: Medium

Separate from the score, this asks what could go wrong: the odds of sales falling 30% or the filings stopping within three years. In the tests, about 22 of every 100 companies in the Medium band did. That is the group's history, not a forecast for this company.

MoneyIt keeps about 10 cents of free cash from each sales dollar after paying for its plants and equipment. Debt after cash comes to about 5 cents for each dollar of yearly sales.low
SwingsIn its worst fifth of years, sales fell about 7% a year.-6.6% a year
Filed eventsIn the last two years it told the SEC about 1 filings on layoffs, write-downs or cyber incidents, and 2 filings on leadership or auditor changes.3

The eight success points

PointWhat it meansPlace in field
SpeedSales grew faster than most of its field.79 of 100Met
SteadinessGrowth was strong for how much it swung, so it looks dependable.78 of 100Met
Price premiumIt keeps less of each sales dollar than the leaders in its field.54 of 100Not yet
Margin stays above the fieldIts margin has held above the field year after year.93 of 100Met
Moat half-lifeIts margin edge is fading slowly, if at all.62 of 100Met
Brand spend yieldBrand spending returns less gross profit than for the leaders in its field.50 of 100Not yet
Learning curveCosts have not fallen much as a share of sales as it grew.12 of 100Not yet
Climb in the fieldIt has been moving up the size ranks in its field.100 of 100Met

Price premium $99M is the extra gross profit over a field-median margin. Momentum $290M is gross profit times growth above the field's pace.

The actuarial view

CredibilityWith 8 years of filings, the record earns 70% of the weight. The rest stays at the middle of the field.0.70
Severe decline, class BAbout 26 of every 100 companies with this many points fell 30% or stopped reporting within three years.26.1%
Actual vs expectedSales are 28% higher than if it had simply kept pace with its field.1.28

Top of its field: #1 Zurn Elkay Water Solutions · #2 RBC Bearings · #3 Ingersoll Rand · #4 Ouster · #5 Xylem

Ranked by The Trillion Score. See the method and score your own brand. Tested on 2019 to 2022 filings. Odds, class and Fall Risk figures are the experience of similar filers, not a forecast for this company. A statistical description of past filings, not a rating or advice.

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