American Water Works Co Inc (AWK): Today's Featured Utilities Winner
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) pushed the Utilities sector higher today making it today's featured utilities winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, American Water Works rose $0.51 (1.2%) to $43.11 on light volume. Throughout the day, 666,278 shares of American Water Works exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 915,700 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $42.51-$43.22 after having opened the day at $42.55 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $42.60. Other companies within the Utilities sector that increased today were:
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), up 22.3%,
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), up 8.5%,
Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras
(
), up 4.8% and
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), up 4.0%.
American Water Works Company, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides water and wastewater services in the United States and Canada. The company's Regulated Businesses segment offers water and wastewater services to approximately 1,500 communities in 16 states. American Water Works has a market cap of $7.5 billion and is part of the utilities industry. Shares are up 14.0% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate American Water Works a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
American Water Works
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, compelling growth in net income, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full American Water Works Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 9.9%,
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), down 6.5%,
China Hydroelectric Corporation
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), down 3.0% and
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), down 2.6% , were all laggards within the utilities sector with
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) being today's utilities sector laggard.
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(
) while those bearish on the utilities sector could consider
ProShares UltraShort Utilities
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).
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