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Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer · A. O. Smith Corporation (AOS)

Christopher Howe

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Christopher Howe as a named executive officer of A. O. Smith; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,773,540

6th of 6 named executive officers at A. O. Smith by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 4, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Christopher Howe compensation by year

A. O. Smith Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as A. O. Smith reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$109,754
Bonus$0
Stock awards$1,587,287
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$65,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$11,499
Total$1,773,540

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: A. O. Smith Corporation DEF 14A filed March 4, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-089938, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the A. O. Smith Corporation filed document, accession 0001193125-26-089938. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 4, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU22,035$1,473,701—
PSU285$19,061—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in A. O. Smith Corporation's FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

A. O. Smith’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Kevin WheelerExecutive Chairman$8,495,829
Stephen ShaferPresident and Chief Executive Officer$4,960,450
James SternExecutive Vice President, Corporate Development, Strategy, and Secretary$2,864,861
Charles LauberExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,827,341
Ming ChengSenior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer$2,484,591
Christopher Howe · this pageSenior Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer$1,773,540

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