secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     American Water Works Company, Inc. (AWK)
CIK:        0001410636
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-02-19T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001410636-25-000023
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1410636/000141063625000023/0001410636-25-000023-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1410636/000141063625000023/awk-20250219.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410636-25-000023

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