AWKAmerican Water Works
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though cheap against its own history.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 22.3 vs a 25.4 median over 41 quarters (−12% vs median).
Sector median 22.4× across 56 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What AWK's price assumes
American Water Works trades at 22.3× earnings against 20.6× for the median Utilities - Regulated Water name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Utilities - Regulated Water median 20.6 · 1.08× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 4.62
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Price / book
- 2.09
Price / book · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- EV / sales
- 7.61
EV / sales
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 2.09
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 20.6
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 7.61
- Utilities median P/E86 names
- 19.8
- Utilities - Regulated Water median P/E10 names
- 20.6
- Market capitalisation
- $24.4B
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $138.24 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $146.57 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $179.02 |
| 52-week range | $121.13 – $142.51 |
| Today | $128.90 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Utilities, Regulated Water
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