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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Utilities · CIK 0001410636
$143.23
+6.29% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$27.92B market value
From American Water Works Company, Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 · read the filing
American Water Works supplies electricity, gas or water. It took in $5.12B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 22 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability and growth needing attention and debt weaker.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score 0.58
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From American Water Works Company, Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
-$811.0M → -$1.07B
Revenue
$4.65B → $5.12B
Operating income
$1.72B → $1.88B
Profit
$1.05B → $1.11B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 18, 2026
Deteriorated: $256.0M wider
-$811.0M to -$1.07BSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
AWK rose 6.29% on the latest quote. The average Utilities company tracked here moved +1.61%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 4.7 points above its sector and 7.3 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 19 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 19 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say strong buy, 5 say buy, 11 say hold and 1 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 22 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.11B last year. Note that after $3.13B of spending on property and equipment, it consumed $1.07B more cash than it generated.
Slowly. Sales grew 10.1% last year.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 57 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 31% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.11B and generated $2.06B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 18, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 19, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 19, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 19, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 16, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $5.12B | $4.65B | $4.22B | $3.76B | $3.91B | +10.1% |
| Operating income | $1.88B | $1.72B | $1.50B | $1.27B | $1.20B | +9.4% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 36.7% | 36.9% | 35.7% | 33.8% | 30.6% | −0.2 pts |
| Interest expense | $615.0M | $523.0M | $460.0M | $433.0M | — | +17.6% |
| Income before tax | $1.42B | $1.36B | $1.20B | $1.01B | $1.64B | +4.6% |
| Net income | $1.11B | $1.05B | $944.0M | $820.0M | $1.26B | +5.7% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 21.7% | 22.6% | 22.4% | 21.8% | 32.3% | −0.9 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $5.70 | $5.40 | $5.19 | $4.51 | $6.96 | +5.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
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20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from AWK's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 18, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 4.7 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 4.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 4.7 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 14, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 3.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 15, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 4.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 16, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 4.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
8 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
0.58
In the distress zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +10.1%
$4.65B to $5.12BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +9.4%
$1.72B to $1.88BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +5.7%
$1.05B to $1.11BNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +5.6%
$5.40 to $5.70Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Changed: +8.2%
$585.0M to $633.0MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Changed: +9.5%
$2.86B to $3.13BNotable
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 29, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +103.2%
$94.0M to $191.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +6.1%
$1.27B to $1.35BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +10.8%
$489.0M to $542.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +9.0%
$289.0M to $315.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +1.7 pts
38.4% to 40.1%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +8.4%
$1.48 to $1.61Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: +14.4%
$12.28B to $14.04BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 29, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +60.7%
$196.0M to $315.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +59.9%
$1.01 to $1.61Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +38.6%
$391.0M to $542.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +7.6 pts
32.5% to 40.1%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +7.0 pts
16.3% to 23.3%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +39.4%
$137.0M to $191.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +12.2%
$1.20B to $1.35BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: +10.0%
$12.77B to $14.04BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
5 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 7.1% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
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Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 6.9 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.44 in assets. A bankruptcy-risk model also places it in its distress range.
The trailing P/E is 23.7x — investors pay $23.7 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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Revenue +6.1% · Operating margin +1.7 pts · Cash +103.2% — against Q2 FY2025
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Revenue +6.1% · Profit margin −1.8 pts · Free cash flow $137.0M wider — against Q1 FY2026
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