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Watsco Inc. WSO-B

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
12 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$7.2B
▼ 5.0% YoY
$497.0M
▼ 7.3% YoY
$535.1M
▼ 28.0% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Watsco, Inc. distributes air conditioning, heating and refrigeration equipment and related parts and supplies. At December 31, 2025, it operated from 695 locations in 43 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, serving more than 130,000 active contractors that service the replacement and new construction markets. Its revenues in HVAC/R distribution increased from $64.1 million in 1989 to $7.2 billion in 2025. Since 1989, it has acquired 72 HVAC/R distribution businesses, some of which are now primary operating subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2025, it employed approximately 6,950 full-time and 100 part-time employees, or approximately 7,050 employees in total, substantially all of whom were non-union employees. Watsco, Inc. was incorporated in Florida in 1956.

Written from the business description in WATSCO INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 7.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 7.2 · Net income 0.5
3B6B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−0.2%
+7.4%
+5.8%
+6.4%
−6.1%
+13.0%
+11.1%
+12.9%
−7.4%
+11.8%
+9.6%
+11.2%
+11.0%
+11.1%
+15.4%
+12.3%
+12.5%
+12.3%
+17.0%
+14.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.4% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +13.0%, earnings per share at +11.8%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

8 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 10.0% · Net 8.1%
5%10%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 18.3%
10%20%30%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 18 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 473.8M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 535.1
300M600M
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 473.8 · Net buybacks ·
200M400M
2008201120142017202020232025

USD 473.8M in dividends — 95% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 4.4B
EquityUSD 2.8B
CashUSD 433.3M
Gross debtUSD 361.6M
Net debtUSD -71.6M
Current ratio4.12×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
WSO-B, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B7.27.67.37.36.35.14.84.54.34.24.13.93.73.43.02.82.01.7
Operating income $B0.70.80.80.80.60.40.40.40.40.30.30.30.30.20.20.20.10.1
EBITDA $B0.80.80.80.90.70.40.40.40.40.40.40.30.30.20.20.20.10.1
Income tax $B0.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.0
Net income $B0.50.50.50.60.40.30.20.20.20.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.00.1
Free cash flow $B0.50.70.50.50.30.50.30.20.30.20.20.10.10.20.00.10.10.1
EPS, diluted $12.25◌◌◌◌◌6.506.495.815.154.904.323.682.702.742.491.402.09
Dividend / sh $11.7010.559.808.557.626.926.405.604.603.602.802.001.157.482.232.041.891.75
Payout %95797155709998867970574631248818213282
ROE %18.321.926.033.826.618.517.718.418.118.618.817.616.113.311.510.85.9◌
Shares out B◌0.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.000.000.00◌◌◌◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 82 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityWholesale-Hardware & Plumbing & Heating Equipment & Supplies
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inFlorida
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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