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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Utilities · CIK 0001056903
$85.05
+3.54% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$3.32B market value
From AMERICAN STATES WATER CO's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 · read the filing
AMERICAN STATES WATER supplies electricity, gas or water. It took in $658.1M last year, which makes it a smaller company. Of every dollar it sells, about 20 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by accounting, with profitability, growth and debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 2 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$128.5K sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
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
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From AMERICAN STATES WATER CO's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
-$33.2M → -$7.1M
Long-term debt
$640.4M → $782.7M
Cash
$26.7M → $18.8M
Revenue
$595.5M → $658.1M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 18, 2026
Improved: $26.1M narrower
-$33.2M to -$7.1MCritical
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
AWR rose 3.54% on the latest quote. The average Utilities company tracked here moved +1.72%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.8 points above its sector and 4.6 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 11 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 11 analysts publishing on this company, 1 say buy, 4 say hold, 5 say sell and 1 say strong 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 20 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $130.4M last year. Note that after $236.8M of spending on property and equipment, it consumed $7.1M more cash than it generated.
Slowly. Sales grew 10.5% 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 32% 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 $130.4M and generated $229.7M 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 21, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 21, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 21, 2024Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $658.1M | $595.5M | $595.7M | $491.5M | $498.9M | +10.5% |
| Cost of revenue | $60.6M | $54.5M | $57.9M | $53.2M | $56.9M | +11.1% |
| Gross profit | $597.5M† | $540.9M† | $537.8M† | $438.4M† | $441.9M† | +10.5% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 90.8% | 90.8% | 90.3% | 89.2% | 88.6% | −0.0 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $102.8M | $100.9M | $88.3M | $86.2M | $83.5M | +1.9% |
| Operating income | $203.3M | $184.5M | $196.7M | $126.6M | $141.0M | +10.2% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 30.9% | 31.0% | 33.0% | 25.8% | 28.3% | −0.1 pts |
| Interest expense | $46.8M | $50.4M | $42.8M | $27.0M | $22.8M | −7.2% |
| Income before tax | $169.8M | $149.4M | $166.5M | $102.1M | $124.8M | +13.6% |
| Net income | $130.4M | $119.3M | $124.9M | $78.4M | $94.3M | +9.4% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 19.8% | 20.0% | 21.0% | 15.9% | 18.9% | −0.2 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $3.34 | $3.13 | $3.38 | $2.12 | $2.55 | +6.8% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWRAMERICAN STATES WATER CO · this page | 7.0/10 | 6/9 | 10.5% | 19.8% |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 546 shares at $88.80 ($48.5K)
Holds 16,612 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 900 shares at $88.86 ($80.0K)
Holds 38,518 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +11.2% · Operating margin +4.0 pts · Operating income +25.5% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
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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 AWR'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.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. 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. 9 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 | 7.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 6.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 21, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 5.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 1, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 7.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 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
6 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
2.04
In the grey 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.
-2.59
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
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.
Deteriorated: +22.2%
$640.4M to $782.7MSignificant
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.
Deteriorated: -29.4%
$26.7M to $18.8MSignificant
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: +10.5%
$595.5M to $658.1MNotable
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: +10.5%
$540.9M to $597.5MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +10.2%
$184.5M to $203.3MNotable
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: +9.4%
$119.3M to $130.4MNotable
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: +6.8%
$3.13 to $3.34Notable
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: +2.4%
38.2M to 39.1MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +11.4%
$67.0M to $74.7MNotable
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.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +25.5%
$51.0M to $64.0MSignificant
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: +28.4%
$33.7M to $43.3MSignificant
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: +4.0 pts
31.3% to 35.3%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: +3.2 pts
20.7% to 23.9%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: +24.8%
$0.87 to $1.09Significant
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: +11.2%
$163.1M to $181.3MNotable
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: +9.6%
$150.2M to $164.5MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −1.3 pts
92.1% to 90.8%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: -9.1%
$789.5M to $717.7MNotable
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.
Improved: +7.0%
$20.2M to $21.7MNotable
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.
Deteriorated: +2.9%
38.5M to 39.6MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +44.5%
$29.9M to $43.3MCritical
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: +42.9%
$0.76 to $1.09Critical
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: +24.5%
$51.4M to $64.0MSignificant
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: +4.9 pts
30.4% to 35.3%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: +6.2 pts
17.7% to 23.9%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: +7.2%
$169.2M to $181.3MNotable
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: +8.4%
$151.9M to $164.5MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +1.0 pts
89.8% to 90.8%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: -8.3%
$782.7M to $717.7MNotable
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.
Deteriorated: +1.1%
39.2M to 39.6MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
4 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 2.5% 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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Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 3.4 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.63 in assets.
The trailing P/E is 22.4x — investors pay $22.4 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
| 25.48x |
| 1.60x |
| AWKAmerican Water Works Company, Inc. | 4.7/10 | 8/8 | 10.1% | 21.7% | 25.13x | 2.27x |
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| Median of peers | 4.7/10 | — | 10.1% | 21.7% | 25.13x | 2.27x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Filed notice to sell 546 shares ($48.4K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Bonus.
Filed notice to sell 900 shares ($80.7K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Unit.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Published results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +14.3% · Free cash flow turned positive · Capital spending -27.4% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +10.5% · Free cash flow $26.1M narrower · Long-term debt +22.2% — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +12.9% · Cash +58.3% · Long-term debt +23.4% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Operating margin −2.1 pts · Cash +465.1% · Long-term debt +23.4% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingSold shares outside a public offering · Reported another event
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
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