AWK Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (American Water Works Company | NYSE:AWK)

American Water Works is the largest investor-owned US water and wastewater utility, serving nearly 4 million customers in 14 states. It provides water and wastewater services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers and operates predominantly in regulated markets. The company's nonregulated business is water services for military bases, which operates under long-term contracts with regulated-like returns. The proposed Essential Utilities acquisition would add regulated water and wastewater utilities in Ohio, North Carolina, and Texas while increasing its presence in Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia.

American Water Works Company trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol AWK.

As of October 30, 2026, AWK stock price climbed to $144.37 with 1,939,119 million shares trading.

AWK has a beta of -0.84, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. AWK has a correlation of 0.21 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AWK has a market cap of $28.74 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter American Water Works Company reported $2 billion in Revenue and $2.00 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-27 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.05.

In the last 3 years, AWK traded as high as $155.50 and as low as $113.34.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that AWK belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, XLU, IVV.

AWK has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +16.7% while the SPY ETF gained +12.3%. AWK has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +6.2% and +7.0%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.1% and -1.0%, respectively.

AWK support price is $140.28 and resistance is $144.14 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that AWK shares will trade within this expected range on the day.