American Water Works Co., Inc. (AWK) Earnings Preview For Friday
American Water Works Co. (NYSE:AWK) is scheduled to release last fiscal quarter's results after the closing bell on February 24, 2012. Let's take a look at how American Water Works Co. has done in recent quarters.
Who They Are:
American Water Works Company, Inc. provides water and wastewater services to residential, commercial, industrial, public, and other customers in the United States and Canada. The company was founded in 1886 and is based in Voorhees, New Jersey. Amer Water Work shares trade an average of 894,000 shares per day and has a marketcap of $5.9 Billion.
52 Week High: $34.67
52 Week Low: $25.39
Book Value: $24.29
Float Short: 0.58%
What To Expect:
On average, 11 analysts are expecting a drop of $-0.44 in earnings per share compared to last quarter's results of $0.76. Wall Street is expecting $0.32 per share based on earnings estimates.
Wall Street is expecting results within $0.29 and $0.34 per share.
Here is a look at the fiscal year revenue for American Water Works Co.. 
Recent Stock and Valuation Performance:
The current trailing twelve months P/E ratio is 20.4. The forward P/E ratio is 17.23.
Looking at the price movement over the last month, the stock has moved higher in price 2.31%, with a change from a year ago of 22.49%.
When comparing to the S&P 500, the year to date difference is -2.14%.
Investors have been rewarded with an increase of year-over-year revenue. Revenue reported was $2.71 billion for 2010 vs. $2.44 billion for 2009. The bottom line has rising earnings year-over-year of $267.83 million for 2010 vs. $-233.08 million for 2009.The company's earnings before interest and taxes are rising with an EBIT year-over-year of $748.09 million for 2010 vs. $173.61 million for 2009. Rising revenue along with rising earnings is a very good sign and what we want to see with our companies. Be sure to check the margins in the earnings release to make sure the bottom line is keeping up with the top line.
The short interest is relatively low at 0.58%.
Here is the last few quarters to get an idea how well they perform compared to estimates 
Reported earnings per share compared to the mean estimate. Differences are rounded.
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