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Charles Fishman
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Increasing American Water's FVE; Remain Less Bullish On Market-Based Businesses

We are increasing our fair value estimate to $72 per share from $70 after increasing our capital expenditure forecast and earnings growth assumptions. We now estimate American Water will invest roughly $7.5 billion in its regulated utilities between 2017 and 2021, up $400 million from our previous five-year forecast and now higher than the $6.7 billion-$7.3 billion guidance provided at the December 2016 Analyst Day presentation.
The increased utility investment is due in large part to our assump...
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American Water Works Company Inc.

American Water Works is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a publicly-traded water and wastewater utility company. The company provides drinking water, wastewater and other related services to people in various states. The company's Regulated Businesses provide water and wastewater services to residential, commercial, industrial, public authority, fire service and sale for resale customers. The company's Market-Based Businesses provide complementary home services primarily to residential and smaller commercial customers and water and wastewater services to the United States government on military installations, as well as municipalities, utilities and industrial customers.

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Charles Fishman

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