Otis Worldwide (OTIS): Assessing Valuation After Recent Share Price Softness Despite Growing Earnings

Otis Worldwide (OTIS) has drifted lower over the past month, even though its elevator and escalator business continues to grow revenue and earnings. That disconnect is where today’s valuation story starts.

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At around $86.91, Otis’s recent share price softness, including a negative year to date share price return, looks more like sentiment cooling than a shift in fundamentals, especially given its positive multi year total shareholder returns.

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With shares lagging despite solid revenue and earnings growth, a double digit discount to analyst targets, and still respectable multi year returns, is Otis now a mispriced cash generator, or is the market already discounting its future growth?

Most Popular Narrative: 15.8% Undervalued

With Otis Worldwide last closing at $86.91 versus a narrative fair value near $103, the current gap sets up a potentially meaningful upside story.

The accelerating momentum in modernization orders (up 22% in the quarter and supported by a record-high backlog) positions Otis to benefit from the global trend of aging building infrastructure, which is expected to drive a multi-year growth cycle for modernization and associated high-margin service revenue, positively impacting both revenue and earnings.

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Curious how modest revenue growth, rising margins and a richer future earnings multiple can still point to upside from here? The full narrative reveals the math behind that conviction, including how long term earnings power and a higher future valuation multiple are stitched together to reach that fair value.

Result: Fair Value of $103.25 (UNDERVALUED)

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However, persistent weakness in China and softer commercial real estate demand could weigh on new equipment orders, installation pipelines and, ultimately, Otis’s long term growth trajectory.

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