American Water Works Company, Inc. (AWK): Price and Financial Metrics

AWK POWR Grades

• AWK scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 85.34% of US stocks.
• AWK's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 51 weeks.
• AWK ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 18th percentile.

AWK Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 519.52, American Water Works Company Inc is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 94.08% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of American Water Works Company Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; just 0.4% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For AWK, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 96.06% of US equities we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to American Water Works Company Inc are FE, WEC, OKE, CMS, and AEP.
• Visit AWK's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.amwater.com.

AWK Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Utilities stock, AWK's price/earnings ratio is 98.67% higher, now standing at 44.7.
• AWK's price/sales ratio has moved up 7.1 over the prior 163 months.
• AWK's price/sales ratio has moved up 7.1 over the prior 163 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AWK.

AWK Growth Metrics

• The year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 2.15%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 13.61%.
• The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 8.99%.

Over the past 67 months, AWK's revenue has gone up $730,000,000.

The table below shows AWK's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	3,889	1,415	749
2021-03-31	3,821	1,425	718
2020-12-31	3,777	1,426	709
2020-09-30	3,756	1,426	662
2020-06-30	3,690	1,434	638
2020-03-31	3,641	1,395	632

AWK's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AWK has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 36.93% of graded US stocks.
• AWK's asset turnover comes in at 0.158 -- ranking 82nd of 105 Utilities stocks.
• MGEE, FE, and NWE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AWK.

The table below shows AWK's key quality metrics over time.