---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001410636-25-000023"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AWK"
cik: "0001410636"
company_name: "American Water Works Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T11:03:11.020298+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# American Water reports 2024 EPS $5.39 (+10%); CEO Hardwick to retire May 14

## Summary
- 2024 EPS $5.39 vs $4.90 in 2023; adjusted EPS $5.18 vs $4.77 (+8.6% YoY). Q4 EPS $1.22 vs $0.88.
- Invested $3.3B in 2024; added ~90k customers (69.5k via acquisitions). Dividend growth 8.1%.
- Affirms 2025 EPS guidance $5.65-$5.75; long-term EPS and dividend CAGR targets of 7-9%.
- CEO M. Susan Hardwick to retire May 14, 2025; President John Griffith to succeed as CEO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001410636-25-000023
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AWK
- cik: 0001410636
- company_name: American Water Works Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1410636/000141063625000023/0001410636-25-000023-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1410636/000141063625000023/awk-20250219.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410636-25-000023
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410636-25-000023.txt

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