American Water Works
$127.86Change from previous close: −1.24%Absolute change: −$1.61
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $25.41B
- Enterprise value
- $41.25B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 22.2
- Forward P/E
- 19.5
- PEG
- 2.29
- Price/book
- 2.18
- Price/sales
- 4.81
- EV/EBITDA
- 14.2
- EV/revenue
- 7.81
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 61.5%
- Operating margin
- 40.7%
- Net margin
- 21.3%
- ROE
- 10.1%
- ROA
- 3.5%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 6.2%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 8.6%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $227M
- Total debt
- $16.07B
- Debt/equity
- 1.38
- Current ratio
- 0.52
- Quick ratio
- 0.40
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $3.58
- Dividend yield
- 2.8%
- Payout ratio
- 58.5%
- Ex-dividend date
- August 11, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $141.45
- Median price target
- $140.00
- High price target
- $162.00
- Low price target
- $128.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 11
- Consensus
- Hold
- Forward EPS
- $6.57
- EPS estimate, current year
- $6.08
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.58
- Average volume
- 2.09M
- Shares outstanding
- 198.73M
- Float
- 198.32M
- Institutional ownership
- 107.1%
- Insider ownership
- 0.1%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 8.5%
- Short ratio (days)
- 6.61