American States Water Co
At today's price, American States Water Co (AWR) is priced for +2.8% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At $77.09 the price pays about 18x company-wide operating income, implying only roughly 0.7% operating growth a year for five years. The counterintuitive part: even at that near-zero implied growth, no valuation family reaches the price. It is rich on assets, earnings power, peers, and even forward growth. The surprise resolves in the dividend and the contracted segment. American States Water has raised its dividend at an 8.5% compound rate over five years, above its 7% policy goal, and its mil
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362 institutional managers reported holding AWR in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 80% of the company; the top 10 hold 55%. 43 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 908k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (2.7 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.
AWR's share count grew 5.9% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting), raised 15 years straight; the current rate is $1.94 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $193.18M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at AWR over the trailing three years: 2023: 4 buys totaling $241k; 2024: 4 buys totaling $243k; 2025: 3 buys totaling $81k. 18 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.
AWR's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-08 | +2.5% | -9.2% |
| 2023-11-07 | -3.3% | -3.1% |
| 2024-02-22 | -3.3% | -4.8% |
| 2024-05-08 | +3.5% | -3.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AWR's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-21 (items 5.02, 5.07); 2026-05-06 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-27 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-03-13 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-02-20 (items 1.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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