$143.94
American Water Works is an utilities - regulated water business based in the US. American Water Works shares (AWK.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $143.94 – a decrease of 0.39% over the previous day. American Water Works employs 6,500 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $4.4 billion.
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- Choose an order type. Place a market order or limit order with your preferred number of shares or dollar amount.
- Submit the order. It's that simple.
Is it a good time to buy American Water Works stock?
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Technical analysis
View American Water Works's price performance, share price volatility, historical data and technicals.
Historical closes compared with the last close of $143.94
1 week (2024-08-29) | 0.57% |
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1 month (2024-08-06) | 0.10% |
3 months (2024-06-06) | 12.23% |
6 months (2024-03-06) | 21.36% |
1 year (2023-09-06) | 4.52% |
2 years (2022-09-06) | -6.13% |
3 years (2021-09-06) | -21.77% |
5 years (2019-09-05) | 14.51% |
The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.
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Is American Water Works under- or over-valued?
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the American Water Works P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.
American Water Works's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 29x. In other words, American Water Works's stocks trade at around 29x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
American Water Works's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.6206. Higher PEG ratios such as this can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value given the current rate of growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into American Water Works's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
American Water Works's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $2.3 billion ($3.2 billion CAD).
The EBITDA is a measure of American Water Works's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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