NYSE:AWK - American Water Works Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

American Water Works declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, December 9th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 7th will be given a dividend of $0.50 per share on Wednesday, March 4th. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 6th. View American Water Works' Dividend History.

American Water Works Company Inc (NYSE:AWK) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 30th. The utilities provider reported $1.33 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.30 by $0.03. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.01 billion. American Water Works had a return on equity of 10.77% and a net margin of 17.85%. The firm's revenue was up 3.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.20 earnings per share. View American Water Works' Earnings History.

American Water Works is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 18th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for American Water Works.

American Water Works will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 18th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

American Water Works updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, December, 10th. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.79-3.89 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $3.93.

6 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for American Water Works' shares. Their forecasts range from $128.00 to $153.00. On average, they anticipate American Water Works' share price to reach $133.20 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for American Water Works.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for American Water Works in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for American Water Works.

News stories about AWK stock have trended somewhat positive on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. American Water Works earned a daily sentiment score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for American Water Works.

American Water Works saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,620,000 shares, an increase of 5.2% from the December 15th total of 4,390,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 906,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.1 days. Currently, 2.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View American Water Works' Current Options Chain.

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American Water Works' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Davis R M Inc. (0.25%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.19%), Country Trust Bank (0.12%), Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co. (0.08%), Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI (0.08%) and Asset Advisors Investment Management LLC (0.07%). Company insiders that own American Water Works stock include George Mackenzie, Jeffrey N Edwards, Karl F Kurz, Loyd A Warnock, Melanie M Kennedy, Michael A Sgro, Susan N Story and Walter Lynch. View Institutional Ownership Trends for American Water Works.

AWK stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management UK Ltd., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Davis R M Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Global Retirement Partners LLC, Chesley Taft & Associates LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold American Water Works company stock in the last year include George Mackenzie, Loyd A Warnock, Michael A Sgro, Susan N Story and Walter Lynch. View Insider Buying and Selling for American Water Works.

AWK stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Corbenic Partners LLC, Country Trust Bank, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Paragon Advisors LLC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, AdvisorShares Investments LLC, DNB Asset Management AS and Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. Company insiders that have bought American Water Works stock in the last two years include Jeffrey N Edwards, Karl F Kurz and Susan N Story. View Insider Buying and Selling for American Water Works.

Shares of AWK can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AWK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $135.29.

American Water Works has a market capitalization of $24.46 billion and generates $3.44 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $567 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.30 on an earnings per share basis. American Water Works employs 7,100 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About American Water Works.

The official website for American Water Works is http://www.amwater.com/.

American Water Works' mailing address is 1 WATER STREET, CAMDEN NJ, 08102. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 856-955-4001 or via email at [email protected]