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American Water Works (AWK)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$133.75 USD

133.75
1,263,182

+0.62 (0.47%)

Updated May 15, 2024 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $133.65 -0.10 (-0.07%) 7:00 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy24.20%
2Buy18.04%
3Hold9.52%
4Sell5.20%
5Strong Sell2.60%
S&P50011.13%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

Value Score A
Growth Score A
Momentum Score A
VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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D Value C Growth B Momentum D VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Bottom 33% (168 out of 250)

Industry: Utility - Water Supply

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Zacks News

Water supply and wastewater service provider American Water Works Company was founded in 1886. The company provides essential water services to over 15 million customers in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Ontario, Canada. It has employee strength of 6,800. The company also intermittently acquires small water service providers to expand its customer base. In 2018, the company added 14,000 water and wastewater customers through acquisitions.

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          American Water Works Company (AWK) announced that its subsidiary, will invest in excess of $2.6 million to replace the old water mains.

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            American Water Works Company (AWK) returned 7.28% in the last one month, outperforming the Zacks categorized Utility Water Supply industry's increase of 4.91% in the same time period.

              American Water Works to Invest $3.5M to Replace Water Mains

              American Water Works Company (AWK) announced that its subsidiary, New Jersey American Water, will invest in excess of $3.5 million to replace the old water mains.

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                    American Water Works (AWK) Beats on Q4 Earnings Estimates

                    American Water Works' (AWK) fourth-quarter earnings per share of 57 cents per share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny.

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                                    American Water Unit Acquires Scranton Wastewater System

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                                        American Water Unit to Invest $2.7M in Pipeline Replacement

                                        American Water Works Company (AWK) announced that its subsidiary, New Jersey American Water, will install nearly $2.7 million of new water mains throughout Burlington and Camden Counties.

                                          American Water Unit to Invest $3.6M in Infrastructure Upgrade

                                          American Water Works (AWK) announced that its subsidiary, New Jersey American Water has decided to invest nearly $3.6 million over the next few months in water infrastructure improvement projects.

                                            American Water Unit to Invest $1.6M in Pipeline Replacement

                                            American Water Works (AWK) announced that its subsidiary, New Jersey American Water, has decided to install nearly $1.6 million of new water mains to replace the old pipelines.

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