American Water Works Company, Inc.: shareholders and insiders

AWKNYSEUtilities · Water Supply

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$149.60

November 13, 2026Market cap $29.2B

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Insiders and their shares

Purchases and sales by officers and directors, from their own Form 4 filings.

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American Water Works's filings

Major holders (over 5%)

Whoever comes to own more than 5% of a class of shares reports it to the SEC on Schedule 13D or 13G. Here is each holder's latest filing.

4 Holders over 5%Aug 13, 2026 Latest filing

BlackRock, Inc.
Share of class10.1%
Wellington Management Group LLPwith 3 more persons
Share of class7.60%
Vanguard Capital Management
Share of class7.57%
Vanguard Portfolio Management
Share of class5.79%

Holder	Share of class	Shares	Filed	Filing
BlackRock, Inc.	10.1%	19.76M	Jan 8, 2025	13G
Wellington Management Group LLPwith 3 more persons	7.60%	14.91M	Aug 13, 20262 filings since May 15, 2026	13G/A
Vanguard Capital Management	7.57%	14.78M	Apr 29, 2026	13G
Vanguard Portfolio Management	5.79%	11.33M	Apr 28, 2026	13G

Fell to 5% or less (1)

Holders whose latest filing says they hold 5% or less. After it they need not file again, so what they hold today is not known.

The Vanguard Group0.00%Mar 26, 202613G/A

From the Schedule 13D and 13G filed with the SEC since Dec 18, 2024, when they became structured data. A holder who has filed nothing since then is not shown here. A 13D is updated within two business days of any material change, a 13G up to 45 days after the quarter of the change, so the shares are those of the filing. The large managers also appear in the 13Fs.

Well-known managers

Which of the about 30 investment managers we track held the shares at the quarter end, and what they changed from the quarter before.

Sep 30, 2026 quarter end

Point72 (Cohen)
In the quarter
AQR Capital
In the quarter+157%
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)
In the quarter+308%
Millennium Mgmt (Englander)
In the quarter-22%
D.E. Shaw
In the quarter+15%
Renaissance Technologies
In the quarter

Manager	Shares	In the quarter	Value	% of their portfolio
Point72 (Cohen)	–		–	0.07%
AQR Capital	1.61M	+157%	$212M	0.07%
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)	232.3K	+308%	$31M	0.02%
Millennium Mgmt (Englander)	112.1K	-22%	$15M	0.01%
D.E. Shaw	70.0K	+15%	$9.2M	0.01%
Renaissance Technologies	40.6K		$5.3M	0.01%

From the 13Fs managers file with the SEC up to 45 days after each quarter end. They show only long positions on that day, not short sales or what has changed since. No recent 13F: Pershing Square (Ackman), Scion (Burry).

Short interest

How many of the company's shares have been sold borrowed and not yet bought back, twice a month.

On Oct 15, 2026, 7.23% of its shares outstanding were held short, +2.3% since the report before.

Shares held short: 14.10M
: 7.23%
Since the report before13.78M on Sep 30, 2026: +2.3%
: 7.0
: 2.01M
More days to cover thanof 4,578 US-listed companies with enough volume: 78%
Report date: Oct 15, 2026

Oct 31, 2023: Shares held short 2.53M
Nov 15, 2023: Shares held short 2.57M
Nov 30, 2023: Shares held short 2.86M
Dec 15, 2023: Shares held short 2.89M
Dec 29, 2023: Shares held short 2.74M
Jan 12, 2024: Shares held short 2.71M
Jan 31, 2024: Shares held short 2.30M
Feb 15, 2024: Shares held short 2.82M
Feb 29, 2024: Shares held short 2.51M
Mar 15, 2024: Shares held short 2.67M
Mar 28, 2024: Shares held short 2.66M
Apr 15, 2024: Shares held short 2.73M
Apr 30, 2024: Shares held short 2.97M
May 15, 2024: Shares held short 3.95M
May 31, 2024: Shares held short 3.50M
Jun 14, 2024: Shares held short 4.08M
Jun 28, 2024: Shares held short 3.74M
Jul 15, 2024: Shares held short 3.88M
Jul 31, 2024: Shares held short 4.08M
Aug 15, 2024: Shares held short 4.06M
Aug 30, 2024: Shares held short 3.89M
Sep 13, 2024: Shares held short 4.45M
Sep 30, 2024: Shares held short 4.13M
Oct 15, 2024: Shares held short 3.72M
Oct 31, 2024: Shares held short 3.68M
Nov 15, 2024: Shares held short 4.04M
Nov 29, 2024: Shares held short 5.28M
Dec 13, 2024: Shares held short 4.63M
Dec 31, 2024: Shares held short 4.43M
Jan 15, 2025: Shares held short 4.86M
Jan 31, 2025: Shares held short 4.82M
Feb 14, 2025: Shares held short 5.82M
Feb 28, 2025: Shares held short 5.10M
Mar 14, 2025: Shares held short 5.17M
Mar 31, 2025: Shares held short 4.59M
Apr 15, 2025: Shares held short 5.37M
Apr 30, 2025: Shares held short 4.46M
May 15, 2025: Shares held short 4.51M
May 30, 2025: Shares held short 4.99M
Jun 13, 2025: Shares held short 5.56M
Jun 30, 2025: Shares held short 5.97M
Jul 15, 2025: Shares held short 6.34M
Jul 31, 2025: Shares held short 5.89M
Aug 15, 2025: Shares held short 8.22M
Aug 29, 2025: Shares held short 8.41M
Sep 15, 2025: Shares held short 8.29M
Sep 30, 2025: Shares held short 7.84M
Oct 15, 2025: Shares held short 6.91M
Oct 31, 2025: Shares held short 6.75M
Nov 14, 2025: Shares held short 7.48M
Nov 28, 2025: Shares held short 8.28M
Dec 15, 2025: Shares held short 8.74M
Dec 31, 2025: Shares held short 8.60M
Jan 15, 2026: Shares held short 9.24M
Jan 30, 2026: Shares held short 9.25M
Feb 13, 2026: Shares held short 9.38M
Feb 27, 2026: Shares held short 9.54M
Mar 13, 2026: Shares held short 9.92M
Mar 31, 2026: Shares held short 10.07M
Apr 15, 2026: Shares held short 9.98M
Apr 30, 2026: Shares held short 9.85M
May 15, 2026: Shares held short 11.08M
May 29, 2026: Shares held short 11.13M
Jun 15, 2026: Shares held short 10.00M
Jun 30, 2026: Shares held short 11.04M
Jul 15, 2026: Shares held short 11.02M
Jul 31, 2026: Shares held short 12.07M
Aug 14, 2026: Shares held short 10.65M
Aug 31, 2026: Shares held short 11.66M
Sep 15, 2026: Shares held short 13.18M
Sep 30, 2026: Shares held short 13.78M
Oct 15, 2026: Shares held short 14.10M

As brokers report them to the regulator twice a month, mid-month and at month end, published about eight business days later. A short position is shares sold borrowed and not yet bought back. The share count is the one the company's market value is figured on, from its filings. Days to cover is the shares held short over the average daily volume of the weeks between two reports.

Short sales in daily trading73.6% of the shares in the last 14 sessions' reported trades were short sales.

In the last 14 sessions, 73.6% of the shares in the reported trades were short sales, against 69.1% in the 14 before.

Last 14 sessionsOct 27, 2026 – Nov 13, 2026: 73.6%
The 14 beforeOct 7, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026: 69.1%
Change: +4.5 pts
Short sales a dayon average, of 812.7K shares: 598.1K
More than atof 3,649 US-listed companies, same days: 99%
Median of alleight in ten from 34.6% to 63.4%: 50.1%

This is not the number of shares sold short today: it measures short sales within each day's trading, and only trades made off the exchanges. Much of it is market makers, who sell shares they do not have to fill buyers' orders and cover soon after, so for a heavily traded stock the share is often around half.

What the insiders hold

The shares each insider reports holding after their latest trade (Form 4), for those who traded on the market in the last three years.

80.0K Insiders' shares0.04% Of the company

Martha Clark GossDirector
Directly36.9K
Cheryl NortonEVP and COO
Directly19.3K
Melanie M KennedyEVP, CHRO
Directly16.2K
Melissa K. WikleSVP, Chief Accounting Officer
Directly7,572

Person	Directly	Indirectly	After the trade of	Filing
Martha Clark GossDirector	36.9K	–	Sep 3, 2024	Form 4
Cheryl NortonEVP and COO	19.3K	–	Nov 22, 2024	Form 4
Melanie M KennedyEVP, CHRO	16.2K	–	Mar 4, 2024	Form 4
Melissa K. WikleSVP, Chief Accounting Officer	7,572	–	May 30, 2025	Form 4

A lower bound: it counts only the 4 officers and directors with a market trade since Nov 16, 2023. Anyone who neither bought nor sold since is not here, whatever they hold. The share is against the share count on the latest 10-K's cover.

Executive pay

From the Pay versus Performance table every company puts in its proxy statement since 2023: what the chief executive was paid, what was actually paid once the shares vest at year-end values, and how the stock did against the peer group the company itself picked.

2025 Latest year6 Years on record

$7.1M

Actually paid: $7.5M

$6.3M

Actually paid: $7.2M

$3.0M

Actually paid: $2.3M

$94

Peers: $159

Adjusted EPS

From the proxy statement (DEF 14A) of Mar 24, 2026, as filed with the SEC with structured data. Pay in dollars. The company picks its own peer group and measure. DEF 14A

The shareholders' vote on pay

The advisory say-on-pay vote at each annual meeting, as the company states it in the 8-K it files after the meeting: how many voted for and against the executives' pay. 90% is the norm. Under 70% proxy advisers expect the board to respond the next year.

91.6% For in 20266 Votes on record

2026May 15, 2026
For
91.6%
2025May 16, 2025
For
88.1%
2024May 17, 2024
For
87.5%
2023May 12, 2023
For
93.8%
2022May 12, 2022
For
90.7%
2021May 13, 2021
For
94.8%

Year	For	Votes for	Votes against	Abstentions	Broker non-votes	Filing
2026May 15, 2026	91.6%	151M	13.89M	486.0K	12.70M	8-K
2025May 16, 2025	88.1%	142M	19.14M	503.9K	13.64M	8-K
2024May 17, 2024	87.5%	134M	19.23M	294.3K	16.15M	8-K
2023May 12, 2023	93.8%	145M	9.58M	406.7K	15.38M	8-K
2022May 12, 2022	90.7%	128M	13.21M	385.3K	15.19M	8-K
2021May 13, 2021	94.8%	135M	7.34M	358.1K	16.93M	8-K

From the 8-K (item 5.07) the company files after each annual meeting since 2021, read from the filing's text without a model. A company that votes every three years has empty years. The vote is advisory: the board is not bound by it.

The ETFs that hold it

Which of the 269 US equity ETFs we track hold the stock, and at what weight, from the funds' N-PORT filings.

39 ETFs holding it1.81% The largest weight (XLU)

XLUState Street(R) Utilities Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF
Weight in the fund1.81%
VPUVanguard Utilities Index Fund
Weight in the fund1.73%
SPLVInvesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF
Weight in the fund0.92%
VOEVanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund
Weight in the fund0.44%
QUALiShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Weight in the fund0.29%
IWSiShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF
Weight in the fund0.25%
VOVanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund
Weight in the fund0.25%
RSPInvesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF
Weight in the fund0.20%
IWRiShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF
Weight in the fund0.18%
DGROiShares Core Dividend Growth ETF
Weight in the fund0.16%

ETF	Weight in the fund	Holdings as of
XLUState Street(R) Utilities Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF	1.81%	Jun 30, 2026
VPUVanguard Utilities Index Fund	1.73%	Aug 31, 2026
SPLVInvesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF	0.92%	Aug 31, 2026
VOEVanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund	0.44%	Jun 30, 2026
QUALiShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF	0.29%	Jul 31, 2026
IWSiShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF	0.25%	Jun 30, 2026
VOVanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund	0.25%	Jun 30, 2026
RSPInvesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF	0.20%	Jul 31, 2026
IWRiShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF	0.18%	Jun 30, 2026
DGROiShares Core Dividend Growth ETF	0.16%	Jul 31, 2026

39 of the 269 ETFs we track, not of every ETF on the market. The ten largest weights. Positions as each fund filed them in its latest N-PORT.

Institutional investors by quarter

Every manager that reports positions to the SEC (Form 13F), quarter by quarter: how many hold the stock, how many shares and dollars between them, and who entered, left, added or trimmed during the quarter.

1,131 Managers, Q2 2026$26.9B Value of their positions

Institutional investors by quarter

The fund managers holding AWK, quarter by quarter, from Q1 2013 to Q2 2025, 50 more quarters

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Q2 2026: 1,131 managers held 204M shares, worth $26.9B. During the quarter 123 opened a position, 139 closed one, 407 added and 409 trimmed.

The largest holders, Q2 2026

BlackRock
In the quarter+5.6%
Wellington Management Group
In the quarter+35%
Vanguard Capital Management
In the quarter+0.6%
State Street
In the quarter-1.1%
Vanguard Portfolio Management
In the quarter-0.4%
GQG Partners
In the quarter+38%
Aristotle Capital Management
In the quarter-6.6%
Geode Capital Management
In the quarter+1.2%
JPMorgan Chase
In the quarter+161%
Amundi
In the quarter-4.7%

Manager	Shares	In the quarter	Value
BlackRock	20.61M	+5.6%	$2.7B
Wellington Management Group	14.91M	+35%	$2.0B
Vanguard Capital Management	12.77M	+0.6%	$1.7B
State Street	11.90M	-1.1%	$1.6B
Vanguard Portfolio Management	11.26M	-0.4%	$1.5B
GQG Partners	8.90M	+38%	$1.2B
Aristotle Capital Management	5.43M	-6.6%	$714M
Geode Capital Management	5.22M	+1.2%	$685M
JPMorgan Chase	5.01M	+161%	$664M
Amundi	4.15M	-4.7%	$545M

From the SEC's Form 13F data sets, Q3 2025 to Q2 2026: the long positions of every manager with more than $100 million under management, as filed up to 45 days after each quarter end. Short positions and options are not in them. Shares as reported each quarter, not adjusted for splits. The stock is matched by its CUSIP, through the SEC's fails-to-deliver files.

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Have AWK's insiders bought or sold?

From – to – American Water Works's insiders reported no purchase or sale of shares on the market.

Which well-known managers hold AWK?

6 of the managers we track held the shares on Sep 30, 2026. The largest position was AQR Capital's, worth $212M.

Is every insider transaction a purchase or a sale?

No. Many are part of their pay: share awards, option exercises and shares the company keeps for the tax. Only code P is a purchase with their own money, and code S a sale on the market.

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