American Water Works
About: 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.
Employees: 6,700
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
34% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 154 | Existing positions closed: 115
22% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $35.2M | Put options by funds: $28.8M
2.15% more ownership
Funds ownership: 86.45% [Q3] → 88.6% (+2.15%) [Q4]
2% more funds holding
Funds holding: 1,048 [Q3] → 1,066 (+18) [Q4]
11% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 9 [Q3] → 8 (-1) [Q4]
12% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 341 | Existing positions reduced: 387
12% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $24.5B [Q3] → $21.5B (-$3.02B) [Q4]
Research analyst outlook
5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
5 analyst ratings
Wells Fargo Jonathan Reeder 65% 1-year accuracy 11 / 17 met price target | 10%upside $147 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 2 May 2025 |
Evercore ISI Group Durgesh Chopra 58% 1-year accuracy 14 / 24 met price target | 11%upside $148 | In-Line Maintained | 2 May 2025 |
UBS Gregg Orrill 57% 1-year accuracy 4 / 7 met price target | 20%upside $160 | Neutral Downgraded | 24 Apr 2025 |
Barclays Eric Beaumont 29% 1-year accuracy 4 / 14 met price target | 3%upside $138 | Underweight Initiated | 22 Apr 2025 |
Seaport Global Angie Storozynski 25% 1-year accuracy 1 / 4 met price target | 17%upside $156 | Buy Maintained | 11 Apr 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 43 articles about AWK published over the past 30 days









