American Water Works AWK Net margin
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Where this comes from
Calculated from American Water Works’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: American Water Works’s 10-Q, filed April 29, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is American Water Works's net margin?
- American Water Works (AWK) reported net margin of 21.2% in Q1 2026.
- How has American Water Works's net margin changed year-over-year?
- American Water Works's net margin decreased by 4.8% year-over-year, from 22.2% to 21.2%.
- What is the long-term trend for American Water Works's net margin?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), American Water Works's net margin has grown at a -0.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 89.7% to 87.7%.
- What does net margin mean?
- The share of every sales dollar that becomes bottom-line profit.
- How do you interpret net margin?
- Higher is better, but net margin mixes operating performance with financing and tax effects and one-off items — read it alongside operating margin to separate the operating story from the rest.
- How does net margin compare across companies?
- Comparable across peers but sensitive to leverage and tax structure; two operationally identical firms can show different net margins purely from financing.