---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-018151"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AWR"
cik: "0001056903"
company_name: "AMERICAN STATES WATER CO"
filed_at: "2026-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T01:23:10.257251+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# American States Water replaces Janney Montgomery Scott with Huntington Securities under equity distribution agreement

## Summary
- Amended equity distribution agreement replaces Janney Montgomery Scott with Huntington Securities as sales agent.
- Maximum aggregate offering amount remains $200 million; approximately $40.7 million remains unsold.
- Amendment effective February 20, 2026; all other terms of the original agreement unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-018151
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AWR
- cik: 0001056903
- company_name: AMERICAN STATES WATER CO
- filed_at: 2026-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056903/000110465926018151/0001104659-26-018151-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056903/000110465926018151/tm266217d2_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-018151.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  AMERICAN STATES WATER CO amended Equity Distribution Agreement with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC, and Huntington Securities, Inc. (effective 2026-02-20).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: atm program
  - Counterparty: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC, and Huntington Securities, Inc.
  - Effective: 2026-02-20
  source text: On February 20, 2026, American States Water Company (the “Company”) entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Equity Distribution Agreement, dated February 27, 2024 (the “Original Equity Distribution Agreement” and, together with the Amendment, the “Equity Distribution Agreement”), by and among the Company and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (“Wells Fargo”), Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (“JMS”), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (“RBC”), and Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC in their capacities as sales agents (collectively, the “Sales Agents”), in order to replace JMS as Sales Agent thereunder with Huntington Securities, Inc. (“Huntington”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056903/000110465926018151/0001104659-26-018151-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.