American Water Works Company, Inc.

AWK stock score: 62/100

$143.23 · +6.29% · Scored Oct 22, 2026

Technical
64
Fundamental
61
News
56

The reading

American Water Works Company (AWK) scores 62 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 77% of Utilities stocks and 82% of the 4,161 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 64, fundamentals 61.

Among the fundamentals, Fund Ownership at 100 and Institutional Ownership at 100 score highest, while Price to Sales Ratio at 2 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 66 and contrarian oscillators 28 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 56; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 51 to 72, and it is up 2 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward AWK’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

61

Pulling it up

  • Fund Ownership100

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Institutional Ownership100

    Institutional ownership measures the percentage held by professional investors.

  • Earnings Quality (Annual)100

    Earnings Quality (Annual) assesses absolute profitability independent of growth, measuring whether the company is profitable, its earnings yield (earnings/market cap), profit margins, and consistency.

Holding it back

  • Price to Sales Ratio2

    Price-to-Sales ratio compares market capitalization to annual revenue.

  • Free Cash Flow Yield2

    Free cash flow yield is free cash flow divided by market value: the cash a business generates for each dollar of its price.

  • EV/Revenue10

    EV/Revenue compares the whole company's value, debt included, with its sales.

40 weighted scorers; 1 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

61

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Ichimoku Cloud100

    Ichimoku Cloud is a comprehensive indicator showing support/resistance, trend direction, and momentum.

Holding it back

  • Candlestick Patterns0

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Bollinger Bands (50)2

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
56

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly621
Daily613
Weekly662
Monthly702
Quarterly632

Composite score, last 90 days

05010062Jul 25, 2026Oct 22, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 60Jul 26, 2026: 60Jul 27, 2026: 60Jul 28, 2026: 62Jul 29, 2026: 61Jul 30, 2026: 62Jul 31, 2026: 72Aug 2, 2026: 55Aug 3, 2026: 54Aug 5, 2026: 55Aug 6, 2026: 57Aug 7, 2026: 58Aug 8, 2026: 59Aug 9, 2026: 59Aug 10, 2026: 59Aug 11, 2026: 59Aug 12, 2026: 57Aug 13, 2026: 60Aug 14, 2026: 60Aug 15, 2026: 59Aug 16, 2026: 59Aug 17, 2026: 57Aug 18, 2026: 60Aug 19, 2026: 61Aug 20, 2026: 61Aug 22, 2026: 59Aug 23, 2026: 59Aug 24, 2026: 62Aug 25, 2026: 61Aug 26, 2026: 61Aug 27, 2026: 61Aug 28, 2026: 61Aug 29, 2026: 59Aug 30, 2026: 59Aug 31, 2026: 62Sep 1, 2026: 61Sep 2, 2026: 62Sep 3, 2026: 63Sep 4, 2026: 63Sep 5, 2026: 63Sep 6, 2026: 63Sep 7, 2026: 62Sep 8, 2026: 62Sep 9, 2026: 62Sep 10, 2026: 61Sep 11, 2026: 60Sep 12, 2026: 60Sep 13, 2026: 60Sep 14, 2026: 61Sep 15, 2026: 60Sep 16, 2026: 59Sep 17, 2026: 59Sep 18, 2026: 58Sep 19, 2026: 58Sep 20, 2026: 58Sep 21, 2026: 56Sep 22, 2026: 56Sep 23, 2026: 57Sep 24, 2026: 56Sep 25, 2026: 53Sep 26, 2026: 53Sep 27, 2026: 53Sep 28, 2026: 51Sep 29, 2026: 52Sep 30, 2026: 52Oct 1, 2026: 51Oct 2, 2026: 53Oct 3, 2026: 53Oct 4, 2026: 53Oct 5, 2026: 52Oct 6, 2026: 52Oct 7, 2026: 51Oct 8, 2026: 52Oct 9, 2026: 53Oct 10, 2026: 53Oct 11, 2026: 53Oct 12, 2026: 53Oct 13, 2026: 55Oct 14, 2026: 55Oct 15, 2026: 58Oct 16, 2026: 59Oct 17, 2026: 59Oct 18, 2026: 59Oct 19, 2026: 58Oct 20, 2026: 61Oct 21, 2026: 59Oct 22, 2026: 62
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Key facts

Market cap
$28.5B
Sector
Utilities
Industry
Utilities - Regulated Water
Beta
0.57
Risk grade (1–10)
1
Next earnings
Oct 28, 2026

Utilities - Regulated Water peers

CompanyMarket capScore
SBS Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP$22.0B75
WTRG Essential Utilities$12.3B63
AWR American States Water Company$3.4B63
CWT California Water Service Group$2.9B57
HTO H2O America$2.5B60

Questions

What is AWK's stock score today?

AWK scores 62/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 22, 2026: technical 64, fundamental 61, and news sentiment 56, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is AWK a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 62 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the AWK score calculated?

102 weighted scorers feed it today: 40 fundamental, scored against Utilities ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.