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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AWK American Water Works	$147.04 +0.4%	$143.69	$118.74 ▼ $155.50	$28.67B	0.73	1.20 million shs	1.12 million shs
AWR American States Water	$80.13 -0.2%	$78.01	$69.46 ▼ $87.50	$3.09B	0.56	216,863 shs	186,043 shs
CWT California Water Service Group	$48.88 -2.7%	$48.17	$41.64 ▼ $56.25	$2.91B	0.56	332,399 shs	401,363 shs
WTR Aqua America	$40.71	$47.55	$34.21 ▼ $52.58	$8.79B	0.32	1.33 million shs	803,992 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AWK American Water Works	0.00%	+2.13%	-0.22%	+16.85%	+14.21%
AWR American States Water	0.00%	+1.64%	+1.86%	+10.00%	+8.98%
CWT California Water Service Group	0.00%	-1.89%	+0.70%	+7.85%	-3.34%
WTR Aqua America	0.00%	+1.47%	+0.17%	+14.74%	+7.76%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AWK American Water Works	3.9297 of 5 stars	0.9	3.0	4.2	4.3	3.9	1.7	1.3
AWR American States Water	3.5088 of 5 stars	0.5	5.0	4.2	3.3	2.2	2.5	0.6
CWT California Water Service Group	4.7524 of 5 stars	2.7	3.0	4.2	4.0	2.7	1.7	2.5
WTR Aqua America	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AWK American Water Works	1.80	Reduce	$143.22	-2.60% Downside
AWR American States Water	1.00	Sell	$74.00	-7.65% Downside
CWT California Water Service Group	3.33	Buy	$58.00	18.65% Upside
WTR Aqua America	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest WTR, AWK, AWR, and CWT Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
5/2/2025	AWK American Water Works	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$142.00 ➝ $147.00
5/2/2025	AWK American Water Works	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	In-Line ➝ In-Line	$139.00 ➝ $148.00
5/2/2025	CWT California Water Service Group	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$54.00 ➝ $59.00
4/25/2025	AWK American Water Works	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Strong-Buy ➝ Hold
4/24/2025	AWK American Water Works	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Neutral	$160.00
4/22/2025	AWK American Water Works	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Underweight	$138.00
4/11/2025	CWT California Water Service Group	Seaport Res Ptn Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold ➝ Strong-Buy
3/13/2025	AWK American Water Works	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$133.00 ➝ $142.00
2/20/2025	AWK American Water Works	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$129.00 ➝ $133.00

(Data available from 5/5/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AWK American Water Works	$4.82B	5.96	$10.46 per share	14.06	$53.01 per share	2.77
AWR American States Water	$595.46M	5.18	$4.64 per share	17.28	$24.56 per share	3.26
CWT California Water Service Group	$1.04B	2.80	$3.26 per share	14.98	$24.78 per share	1.97
WTR Aqua America	$838.09M	10.48	$1.75 per share	23.25	$11.29 per share	3.61

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AWK American Water Works	$1.05B	$5.49	27.28	23.99	2.80	22.44%	10.29%	3.31%	N/A
AWR American States Water	$119.27M	$3.17	25.28	22.70	12.92	20.03%	13.63%	4.89%	5/7/2025 (Estimated)
CWT California Water Service Group	$51.91M	$3.27	14.13	21.07	0.46	19.56%	13.24%	4.18%	N/A
WTR Aqua America	$191.99M	$1.41	58.16	25.44	5.32	18.02%	8.81%	3.16%	N/A

Latest WTR, AWK, AWR, and CWT Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/7/2025	Q1 2025	AWR American States Water	$0.73	N/A	N/A	N/A	$142.00 million	N/A
5/1/2025	Q1 2025	CWT California Water Service Group	$0.16	$0.22	+$0.06	$0.22	$194.80 million	$203.97 million
4/30/2025	Q1 2025	AWK American Water Works	$1.06	$1.05	-$0.01	$1.05	$1.09 billion	$1.14 billion
2/27/2025	Q4 2024	CWT California Water Service Group	$0.38	$0.33	-$0.05	$0.33	$216.37 million	$222.20 million
2/19/2025	Q4 2024	AWK American Water Works	$1.13	$1.22	+$0.09	$1.22	$1.11 billion	$1.20 billion
2/19/2025	Q4 2024	AWR American States Water	$0.64	$0.69	+$0.05	$0.75	$160.17 million	$143.10 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AWK American Water Works	$3.31	2.25%	+8.40%	60.29%	17 Years
AWR American States Water	$1.86	2.32%	+8.56%	58.68%	71 Years
CWT California Water Service Group	$1.20	2.45%	+6.78%	36.70%	59 Years
WTR Aqua America	$0.94	2.31%	N/A	66.67%	N/A

Latest WTR, AWK, AWR, and CWT Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
4/30/2025	AWK American Water Works	quarterly	$0.8275	2.26%	5/13/2025	5/13/2025	6/3/2025
4/30/2025	CWT California Water Service Group	quarterly	$0.30	2.37%	5/12/2025	5/12/2025	5/23/2025
2/6/2025	AWR American States Water	quarterly	$0.4655	2.56%	2/18/2025	2/18/2025	3/13/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AWK American Water Works	1.21	0.39	0.35
AWR American States Water	0.88	0.82	0.76
CWT California Water Service Group	0.64	0.64	0.60
WTR Aqua America	0.75	6.19	6.14

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AWK American Water Works	86.58%
AWR American States Water	75.24%
CWT California Water Service Group	82.78%
WTR Aqua America	66.47%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AWK American Water Works	0.11%
AWR American States Water	0.83%
CWT California Water Service Group	0.73%
WTR Aqua America	0.30%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AWK American Water Works	6,500	195.01 million	194.79 million	Optionable
AWR American States Water	810	38.51 million	37.15 million	Optionable
CWT California Water Service Group	1,180	59.49 million	59.04 million	Optionable
WTR Aqua America	1,570	215.84 million	N/A	Not Optionable

WTR, AWK, AWR, and CWT Headlines

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WTR, AWK, AWR, and CWT Company Descriptions

American Water Works NYSE:AWK

$147.04 +0.61 (+0.42%)

Closing price 05/2/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$147.08 +0.05 (+0.03%)

As of 04:50 AM Eastern

American Water Works Company, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides water and wastewater services in the United States. It offers water and wastewater services to approximately 1,700 communities in 14 states serving approximately 3.5 million active customers. The company serves residential customers; commercial customers, including food and beverage providers, commercial property developers and proprietors, and energy suppliers; fire service and private fire customers; industrial customers, such as large-scale manufacturers, mining, and production operations; public authorities comprising government buildings and other public sector facilities, such as schools and universities; and other utilities and community water and wastewater systems. It also provides water and wastewater services on military installations; and undertakes contracts with municipal customers, primarily to operate and manage water and wastewater facilities, as well as offers other related services. In addition, the company operates approximately 80 surface water treatment plants; 540 groundwater treatment plants; 175 wastewater treatment plants; 53,700 miles of transmission, distribution, and collection mains and pipes; 1,200 groundwater wells; 1,700 water and wastewater pumping stations; 1,100 treated water storage facilities; and 74 dams. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

American States Water NYSE:AWR

$80.13 -0.15 (-0.19%)

Closing price 05/2/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$77.50 -2.63 (-3.29%)

As of 05:45 AM Eastern

American States Water Company, through its subsidiaries, provides water and electric services to residential, commercial, industrial, and other customers in the United States. It operates through three segments: Water, Electric, and Contracted Services. The company purchases, produces, distributes, and sells water, as well as distributes electricity. As of December 31, 2022, American States Water Company provided water service to 263,265 customers located throughout 10 counties in the State of California; and distributed electricity to 24,705 customers in San Bernardino County mountain communities in California. The company also provides water and/or wastewater services, including the operation, maintenance, and construction of facilities at the water and/or wastewater systems at various military installations. American States Water Company was incorporated in 1929 and is headquartered in San Dimas, California.

California Water Service Group NYSE:CWT

$48.88 -1.34 (-2.66%)

Closing price 05/2/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$48.77 -0.11 (-0.23%)

As of 04:19 AM Eastern

California Water Service Group, through its subsidiaries, provides water utility and other related services in California, Washington, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Texas. The company is involved in the production, purchase, storage, treatment, testing, distribution, and sale of water for domestic, industrial, public, and irrigation uses, as well as for fire protection services. It offers its services to approximately 497,700 customer connections in 100 California communities; approximately 6,500 water and wastewater customer connections on the islands of Maui, Oahu, and Hawaii; approximately 38,000 customer connections in the Tacoma, Olympia, Graham, Spanaway, Puyallup, Rainier, Yelm, and Gig Harbor areas; and approximately 11,400 water and wastewater customer connections in Rio Communities, Rio Del Oro, Meadow Lake, Indian Hills, Squaw Valley, Elephant Butte, Morningstar, Sandia Knolls, Juan Tomas, and Cypress Gardens systems. The company also engages in the provision of non-regulated water-related services, including operating of municipally owned water systems, privately owned water, and recycled water distribution systems; water system operation, meter reading, and billing services to private companies and municipalities; leasing of communication antenna sites on its properties; and billing of optional third-party insurance programs to its residential customers. In addition, it provides lab, wastewater collection, and treatment services. California Water Service Group was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Aqua America NYSE:WTR

Aqua America, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates regulated utilities that provide water or wastewater services in the United States. It offers water services through operating and maintenance contracts with municipal authorities and other parties. The company also provides non-utility raw water supply services for firms in the natural gas drilling industry; and water and sewer line protection solutions, and repair services to households through third-party. It serves approximately three million residential water, commercial water, fire protection, industrial water, wastewater, and other water and utility customers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, Indiana, and Virginia. The company was formerly known as Philadelphia Suburban Corporation and changed its name to Aqua America, Inc. in 2004. Aqua America, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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