On Tuesday, American Water Works Co. Inc (NYSE: AWK) was 2.57% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $138.94. A 52-week range for AWK has been $118.74 – $155.50.
Annual sales at Utilities sector company grew by 9.45% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 6.19%. With a float of $201.67 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $202.14 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 6700 employees.
American Water Works Co. Inc (AWK) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward American Water Works Co. Inc stocks. The insider ownership of American Water Works Co. Inc is 0.23%, while institutional ownership is 89.86%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 30 ’25, was worth 404,766. In this transaction SVP, Chief Accounting Officer of this company sold 2,825 shares at a rate of $143.28, taking the stock ownership to the 7,572 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 22 ’24, when Company’s EVP and COO sold 4,647 for $138.16, making the entire transaction worth $642,018. This insider now owns 17,552 shares in total.
American Water Works Co. Inc (AWK) Latest Financial update
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 9/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 1.8 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was less than consensus figure (set at 1.84) by -0.04. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.27 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.19% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.46% 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
You can see what American Water Works Co. Inc (AWK) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.32. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.83.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.55, a number that is poised to hit 1.89 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 6.10 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of American Water Works Co. Inc (AWK)
American Water Works Co. Inc (NYSE: AWK) saw its 5-day average volume 1.34 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 1.39 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 82.34%.
During the past 100 days, American Water Works Co. Inc’s (AWK) raw stochastic average was set at 63.23%, which indicates a significant decrease from 95.29% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 2.43 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 2.42 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $140.86, while its 200-day Moving Average is $138.24. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $143.94 in the near term. At $145.38, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $147.79. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $140.10, it is likely to go to the next support level at $137.69. The third support level lies at $136.25 if the price breaches the second support level.
American Water Works Co. Inc (NYSE: AWK) Key Stats
There are 195,099K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 28.81 billion. As of now, sales total 4,684 M while income totals 1,051 M. Its latest quarter income was 1,276 M while its last quarter net income were 289,000 K.
