Is American Water Works stock a buy?
What Is The Conclusion?
Right now our advanced algorithms say:
Do the analyst corps agree?
Interesting Questions and Easy Answers!
Yes, American Water Works pays dividends. Last time was Tuesday 3rd of December 2024 where the investors holding the stock on Tuesday 12th of November 2024 were paid $0.765 per share. Over the last 28 times between 2018 and 2024, American Water Works has paid $16.59 with an average of $0.59 per share.
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We cannot find data for American Water Works 10 years ago, but if you had invested on Wednesday 27th of November 2019 when the price was $120.96, you would have made a profit of $17.15 per share or 14.18%
No, the average daily trading liquidity for American Water Works is $703 thousand. Trading in stocks with this little trading liquidity is very dangerous, and you can get into a situation where it will be hard to trade your stocks. In addition, these types of stocks usually have very high volatility.
American Water Works has a normal ratio of the business financed by loans. This puts the company at some risk in periods of high inflation where borrowing costs usually go up. With a normal cash flow to debt ratio of 0.14, the company's ability to pay off the debt is normal. American Water Works has a very good net profit margin of 21.77% and should have very high tolerances against inflation.
We have calculated the inflation risk for American Water Works to be low [0.3 of 1]
US inflation for August 2024 was 0.19%. Over the last 12 months, the US inflation is 2.59%. The 10-year treasury yield that indicates the future interest level is currently 4.41 and is up 0.05 over the last 30 days.