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 approximately 3.5 million customers in 16 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.

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

As of April 18, 2024, AWK stock price climbed to $117.35 with 1,341,984 million shares trading.

AWK has a beta of 0.82, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. AWK has a correlation of 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AWK has a market cap of $22.86 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter American Water Works Company reported $1 billion in Revenue and $.88 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $12 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.05.

In the last 3 years, AWK stock traded as high as $189.65 and as low as $113.34.

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

AWK has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -19.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +22.3%. In the last 3 month period, AWK fell short of the market, returning -8.1%, while SPY returned +6.1%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks AWK has outperformed the stock market by returning -1.3%, while SPY returned -3.8%.

AWK support price is $113.87 and resistance is $116.93 (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 stock will trade within this expected range on the day.