A. O. Smith Corporation (AOS)

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A. O. Smith Corporation

11270 West Park Place
Suite 170 PO Box 245008
Milwaukee, WI 53224-9508
United States
414 359 4000
https://www.aosmith.com

Sector(s): Industrials
Industry: Specialty Industrial Machinery
Full-time employees: 12,000

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Kevin J. Wheeler	Chairman & CEO	5.61M	912.45k	1960
Mr. Charles T. Lauber	Executive VP & CFO	2.11M	N/A	1963
Mr. James F. Stern	Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary	1.77M	N/A	1963
Mr. Mark A. Petrarca	Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Public Affairs	1.46M	253.59k	1964
Mr. Stephen M. Shafer	President & COO	N/A	N/A	1976
Mr. Robert J. Heideman Ph.D.	Senior VP & CTO	N/A	N/A	1967
Ms. S. Melissa Scheppele	Senior VP & Chief Information Officer	N/A	N/A	1963
Ms. Helen E. Gurholt	Vice President of Investor Relations and Financial Planning & Analysis	N/A	N/A	1975
Mr. Paul W. Jones	Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy	24.62k	N/A	1949
Dr. D. Samuel Karge	Senior VP & President of North America Water Treatment	N/A	N/A	1975

Amounts are as of 31 December 2023, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

A. O. Smith Corporation manufactures and markets residential and commercial gas and electric water heaters, boilers, heat pumps, tanks, and water treatment products in North America, China, Europe, and India. The company offers water heaters for residences, restaurants, hotels, office buildings, laundries, car washes, and small businesses; boilers for hospitals, schools, hotels, and other large commercial buildings, as well as homes, apartments, and condominiums; and water treatment products comprising point-of-entry water softeners, well water solutions, and whole-home water filtration products, and point-of-use carbon and reverse osmosis products for residences, restaurants, hotels, and offices. It also provides commercial water treatment and filtration product; expansion tanks, commercial solar water heating systems, swimming pool and spa heaters, and related products and parts; and electric wall-hung, gas tankless, combi-boiler, and heat pump and solar water heaters. The company offers its products under the A. O. Smith, State, Lochinvar, Hague, Water-Right, Master Water, Atlantic Filter, and Water Tec brands. It distributes its products through independent wholesale plumbing distributors, as well as to retail channels consisting of hardware and home center chains, and manufacturer representative firms; and offers Aquasana branded products directly to consumers through e-commerce channels. A. O. Smith Corporation was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Corporate governance

A. O. Smith Corporation’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 April 2024 is 10. The pillar scores are Audit: 2; Board: 10; Shareholder rights: 10; Compensation: 7.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.