American Water Works Company, Inc.
American Water Works Company, Inc. (AWK) is listed on NYSE and classified in Utilities - Regulated Water, part of the Utilities sector. It is headquartered in Camden, United States and has 7,000 employees. The company is worth $28.46B and trades at 24.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 20.5x. Revenue was $5.14B in fiscal 2025, up 9.7% from the year before. Net income was $1.11B. The share price is within 3% of its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.50%, and has raised its annual dividend for 16 years in a row in our records. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $211.49M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -20.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $862.95▼ -13.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $130.50 | $124.49 | $131.99 | $152.42 | $188.86 | $153.47 | $122.85 | $90.77 | $91.49 | $72.36 | $59.75 | $53.30 | $42.26 | $37.13 | $31.86 | $25.29 | $22.41 | $20.88 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 7.8% a year plus a 2.5% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 20.5 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 25.0 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Sector median of 13.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 5.5% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Utilities, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTEDTE Energy Co | $133.06 | 21.1x | 2.3x | 3.50% | 11.03% | $27.69B |
| ATOAtmos Energy Corp | $173.91 | 20.7x | 1.9x | 2.30% | 9.79% | $29.39B |
| FTSFortis Inc. | $57.88 | 22.8x | 1.8x | 3.20% | 7.47% | $29.57B |
| BIPBrookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. | $37.45 |
| P/E | 25.0x | 22.9x | 23.1x | 26.9x | 33.8x | 27.2x | 39.3x | 35.8x | 28.8x | 38.4x | 27.6x | 22.6x | 22.7x | 20.5x | 18.5x | 18.2x | 16.5x | — | — |
| P/S | 4.3x | 5.0x | 5.2x | 6.1x | 7.3x | 8.7x | 7.4x | 6.2x | 4.8x | 4.9x | 3.9x | 3.4x | 3.2x | 2.6x | 2.3x | 2.1x | 1.7x | 1.7x | 1.4x |
| P/B | 2.3x | 2.4x | 2.3x | 2.6x | 3.6x | 4.7x | 4.3x | 3.6x | 2.8x | 3.0x | 2.5x | 2.1x | 1.9x | 1.6x | 1.5x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 0.8x |
| EPS | $5.69 | $5.39 | $4.90 | $4.51 | $6.95 | $3.91 | $3.43 | $3.15 | $2.38 | $2.62 | $2.64 | $2.35 | $2.06 | $2.01 | $1.75 | $1.53 | -$1.39 | -$3.52 |
| Dividend yield | 2.07% | 2.49% | 2.41% | 2.11% | 1.68% | 1.25% | 1.40% | 1.59% | 1.96% | 1.77% | 2.02% | 2.23% | 2.27% | 1.99% | 3.26% | 2.82% | 3.40% | 3.66% | 1.92% |
| Payout | 56.06% | 57.10% | 55.71% | 56.71% | 56.94% | 33.94% | 54.99% | 57.00% | 56.51% | 68.07% | 55.92% | 50.38% | 51.49% | 40.78% | 60.20% | 51.43% | 56.21% | — | — |
| Profit margin | 14.62% | 21.61% | 22.44% | 22.30% | 21.62% | 32.14% | 18.77% | 17.20% | 16.48% | 12.69% | 14.17% | 15.07% | 14.05% | 12.82% | 12.55% | 11.61% | 10.48% | -10.18% | -24.07% |
| ROE | 9.20% | 10.25% | 10.17% | 9.64% | 10.66% | 17.31% | 10.99% | 10.15% | 9.67% | 7.91% | 8.97% | 9.43% | 8.61% | 7.80% | 8.06% | 7.31% | 6.49% | -5.82% | -13.70% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+3.9% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 60.4x |
| 3.9x |
| 4.86% |
| 7.69% |
| $29.65B |
| CNPCenterpoint Energy Inc | $41.20 | 23.8x | 2.3x | 2.33% | 9.82% | $27.14B |
| FEFirstenergy Corp | $46.49 | 24.9x | 2.1x | 4.00% | 9.49% | $26.9B |