American Water Works Co. Inc (NYSE:AWK) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.61M but it saw 919908 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 27.47B USD, the company’s current market price of $140.87 came falling about -1.59 while comparing to the previous closing price of $143.14. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $155.50 and as low as $118.74. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $140.45 while lowest mark touched by it was $142.965.
Wells Fargo issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $133 and $129.
Over the week, AWK’s stock price is moving -2.05% down while it is -2.36% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 13.16% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 9.54%.
Currently, American Water Works Co. Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 195.01M with 0.14% of that held by the insiders while 94.38% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.48% and return on equity (ROE) at 10.43%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 25.65 while having a 22.95 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.70. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.61 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.71. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.33% on average.
