AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.
boothcheck covers AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC. (AWK) but does not put one priced-in number on it: here the defensible answer is the evidence rather than a point estimate. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating. Narrative composed July 25, 2026.
• Growth here is manufactured with capital rather than won from customers: the 10-K commits to regulated investment ⟦"of between $17 billion to $17.5 billion over the next five years, and between $42 billion to $43 billion over the next 10 years"⟧, plus a further $2 billion to $2.5 billion of system acquisitions over five years. • That plan is financed, and the financing is the exposure: gross borrowings run about 14.26 billion dollars, net debt sits at roughly 7.57 times operating profit, and o
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1,107 institutional managers reported holding AWK in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 110 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 10.0M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (4.6 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
AWK's share count grew 7.1% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 12 years straight; the current rate is $3.31 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.66B in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at AWK over the trailing three years: 2023: 2 buys totaling $501k. 19 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
AWK's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-27 | +0.2% | -16.8% |
| 2023-11-02 | +5.8% | +5.8% |
| 2024-02-15 | +3.8% | -5.6% |
| 2024-05-02 | +3.0% | +1.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AWK's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-07-16 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-01 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-09 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-01 (items 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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