American Water Works Co. Inc (NYSE: AWK) on Tuesday, plunged -0.05% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $144.82. Within the past 52 weeks, AWK’s price has moved between $113.34 and $152.07.
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Utilities Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 5.49% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 5.94%. With a float of $194.42 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $194.92 million.
The firm has a total of 6700 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 52.05%, operating margin of 36.66%, and the pretax margin is 29.01%.
American Water Works Co. Inc (AWK) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Utilities – Regulated Water industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of American Water Works Co. Inc is 0.27%, while institutional ownership is 91.77%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 22 ’24, was worth 642,018. In this transaction EVP and COO of this company sold 4,647 shares at a rate of $138.16, taking the stock ownership to the 17,552 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 22 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 4,647 for $138.16, making the entire transaction worth $642,022.
American Water Works Co. Inc (AWK) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.94% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.40% during the next five years compared to 9.45% growth over the previous five years of trading.
American Water Works Co. Inc (NYSE: AWK) Trading Performance Indicators
American Water Works Co. Inc (AWK) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.35 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 6.02.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.39, a number that is poised to hit 1.09 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 6.15 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of American Water Works Co. Inc (AWK)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [American Water Works Co. Inc, AWK], we can find that recorded value of 1.55 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.45 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 55.77%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.84.
During the past 100 days, American Water Works Co. Inc’s (AWK) raw stochastic average was set at 78.04%, which indicates a significant increase from 61.27% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 33.44% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 25.42% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $129.99, while its 200-day Moving Average is $135.30. Now, the first resistance to watch is $145.79. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $146.83. The third major resistance level sits at $148.00. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $143.58, it is likely to go to the next support level at $142.41. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $141.37.
American Water Works Co. Inc (NYSE: AWK) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 28.22 billion based on 194,947K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 4,684 M and income totals 1,051 M. The company made 1,201 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 239,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
