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American Water Works Company, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-02Overview · American Water Works Company, Inc.
American Water Works Company, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides water and wastewater services in the United States. It offers water and wastewater services to approximately 1,600 communities in 14 states serving approximately 3.4 million active customers. The company serves residential customers; commercial customers, including food and beverage providers, commercial property developers and proprietors, and en…
Management team
- Ms. Lori Sutton · Senior VP & Chief Human Resources OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Stacy A. Mitchell · Executive VP & General CounselFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Cheryl D. Norton · Executive VP & COOFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. David M. Bowler · Executive VP & CFOFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.3 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Mixed (+0.3 of a possible +2; was +0.3 before debate) with high confidence. Revenue rose from $ 1,203,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-04-20) to $ 1,350,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-07-20), a quarter‑over‑quarter increase of about 12.2%. Operating income moved from $ 391,000,000 to $ 542,000,000 across those same quarters, lifting operating margin from roughly 32.5% to roughly 40.2%, and net income rose from $ 196,000,000 to $ 315,000,000 while diluted EPS moved from $ 1.00 to $ 1.61.
Balance-sheet and market facts survived the review: cash and cash equivalents increased from $ 137,000,000 as of 2026-03-31 to $ 191,000,000 as of 2026-06-30; common shares outstanding increased from 195,280,521 (as of 2026-04-20) to 198,728,989 (as of 2026-07-20); TTM operating cash flow is $ 1,303,000,000 while TTM capex is $ 2,442,000,000 producing a negative TTM free cash flow of $ -1,139,000,000 ( -$ 5.8112 per share). Market signals are mixed: beta vs SPY is -0.46 with a correlation of -0.26, recent momentum is stronger over 3 months than 12 months, technical measures show a golden cross and price modestly above the 50‑ and 200‑day SMAs, volatility is elevated ( 90‑day annualized vol ~ 22.7%), and valuation multiples include a TTM P/E of 22.79 and EV/EBITDA of 12.91.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue increased from $1,203,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) to $1,350,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo), a quarter-over-quarter rise of about 12.2%.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001410636-26-000063Operating income rose from $391,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) to $542,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo); using those quarters, operating margin moved from approximately 32.5% (391/1,203) to approximately 40.2% (542/1,350).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001410636-26-000120Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
An Item 8-K the 8-K filed 31 August 2026 was filed on 2026-08-31.
8-K filed 2026-08-31The filing record shows parse_status listed as "pending" for the 8-K filed on 2026-08-31.
8-K filed 2026-08-31Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Beta vs SPY is -0.46 and correlation vs SPY is -0.26, indicating negative market sensitivity over the measurement window.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01Short-term momentum is positive with momentum_3m = +11.8% while 6-month momentum is +2.6% and the 12-1 momentum is -3.9%, showing stronger recent returns but weaker 12-month relative price change.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01weakened in debateReads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of the etf feed timestamps, Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO) carries the largest reported fund weight among listed ETFs at 0.29% of the fund.
ETF constituents · market dataMultiple broad-market and dividend-focused ETFs list AWK with small but nonzero weights (examples: VYM 0.15%, JEPI 0.13%, VTV 0.11%, SCHB 0.05%, SCHX 0.05%, VOO 0.05%, IVV 0.04%) in the etf membership snapshot.
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
West Virginia American Water announced a $900,000 infrastructure upgrade project on Autumn Road in Charleston (published 1 September 2026).
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-01The same $900,000 Autumn Road infrastructure project was distributed via PR Newswire (published 1 September 2026).
News · prnewswire.com · 2026-09-01Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The trailing twelve-month price/earnings ratio is 22.79 (pe_ttm = 22.79).
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeThe enterprise-value to EBITDA multiple on a trailing twelve-month basis is 12.91 (ev_to_ebitda = 12.91).
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
The evidence set contains multiple, internally consistent fundamental datapoints that together read favorably: sequential revenue, operating income, and net income all rose materially quarter-over-quarter while operating margin expanded sharply, and cash balances increased — these items come from recent SEC filings and are therefore high-strength evidence. Market signals and ownership data add support: technical trend measures (golden cross, price above SMAs), positive short-term momentum, a rising dividend profile, and inclusion in several ETFs are medium-strength indicators of market acceptance. The third-party street snapshot shows at least one initiation to Buy alongside mostly Hold opinions, which is a mixed but non-negligible piece of sell-side context. Weaknesses such as negative trailing free cash flow, elevated capex, share count increase, higher volatility, and the non-unanimous settlement report are real and should be weighed; these are medium-strength to strong observations depending on source (valuation model, filings, and news outlets).
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.33
29 surviving claims rest on 14 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 24% of them, and 98% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence set is reasonably resilient: many claims are supported across 14 distinct sources and almost all desk challenges left holdings intact. However, a single analyst contributes nearly a quarter of surviving claims and a small number of sources carry multiple claims, so the read should be treated as informative but not definitive — weight it alongside primary filings and independent data checks.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
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What this was built from
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15 filings· 2 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.6 to the score
1 document
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash+0.4 to the score
2 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.3 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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