American Water Works - AWK Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for American Water Works in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" AWK shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AWK, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for American Water Works' stock. Their AWK share price forecasts range from $138.00 to $165.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $153.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.7%.
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American Water Works' stock was trading at $188.86 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, AWK stock has decreased by 18.5% and is now trading at $154.01.
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American Water Works saw a decline in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,690,000 shares, a decline of 8.5% from the October 31st total of 2,940,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 864,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.1 days. Currently, 1.5% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 15th 2023.
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American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE:AWK) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 1st. The utilities provider reported $1.63 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.51 by $0.12. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.08 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.07 billion. American Water Works had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.99% and a net margin of 34.58%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down .9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.53 earnings per share.
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American Water Works announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 27th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, November 8th will be given a dividend of $0.655 per share on Thursday, December 1st. This represents a $2.62 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.70%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, November 7th.
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American Water Works (NYSE:AWK) pays an annual dividend of $2.62 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.73%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 12 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 36.14%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AWK will have a dividend payout ratio of 54.93% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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American Water Works updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Monday, November, 7th. The company provided EPS guidance of $4.39-$4.49 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $4.44. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

9 employees have rated American Water Works Chief Executive Officer Walter Lynch on Glassdoor.com. Walter Lynch has an approval rating of 37% among the company's employees. This puts Walter Lynch in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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American Water Works trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AWK."

American Water Works' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.37%), BlackRock Inc. (9.09%), State Street Corp (5.87%), Pictet Asset Management SA (3.82%), Impax Asset Management Group plc (2.56%) and Royal Bank of Canada (1.27%). Insiders that own company stock include Cheryl Norton, Lloyd M Yates, Loyd A Warnock, Martha Clark Goss, Maureen Duffy, Melanie M Kennedy, Melanie M Kennedy, Melissa K Wikle, Michael A Sgro and Walter Lynch.
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Shares of AWK stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of AWK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $154.01.

American Water Works (NYSE:AWK) has a market capitalization of $28.00 billion and generates $3.93 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.26 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.25 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 6,400 workers across the globe.

American Water Works' mailing address is 1 WATER STREET, CAMDEN NJ, 08102. The official website for the company is www.amwater.com. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at (856) 955-4001, via email at ir@amwater.com, or via fax at 856-346-8360.