Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001410636-25-000173
Chunk: 153

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 153
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 of capital and acquisition investments. Results also reflect increased operating costs and higher depreciation and financing costs to support the current capital investment plan. Results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, reflect the net impact of weather compared to normal, estimated at $0.03 favorable and flat per share, respectively. Results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, reflect the net favorable impact of warmer, drier weather compared to normal, estimated at $0.04 and $0.07 per share, respectively.

Growth Through Capital Investment in Infrastructure and Regulated Acquisitions

The Company continues to grow its businesses, with the substantial majority of its growth to be achieved in the Regulated Businesses through (i) continued capital investment in the Company’s infrastructure to provide safe, clean, reliable and affordable water and wastewater services to its customers, (ii) regulated acquisitions to expand the Company’s services to new customers and (iii) organic growth in existing systems. The Company currently plans to invest approximately $3.2 billion in these growth strategies in 2025. During the first nine months of 2025, the Company invested $2.2 billion, in the Regulated Businesses, as discussed below.

•$2.1 billion capital investment in the Regulated Businesses for infrastructure improvements and replacements; and

•$30 million to fund acquisitions in the Regulated Businesses, which added approximately 11,000 customers. This includes the Company’s acquisition effective May 28, 2025, of all the outstanding capital stock of Audubon Water Company, for total consideration of $7 million in the form of shares of parent company common stock.

•Approximately 14,600 new customers were added through organic growth in existing systems.

Excluding the Essential Merger Agreement (as defined below), as of September 30, 2025, the Company had entered into 24 agreements with a total aggregate purchase price of $572 million for pending acquisitions in the Regulated Businesses to add approximately 98,000 additional customers.

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Execution of Agreement and Plan of Merger with Essential

On October 26, 2025, parent company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with Essential (the “Essential Merger Agreement”) to combine the two companies in a stock-for-stock transaction. The Essential Merger Agreement provides that, upon the completion of the proposed merger, Essential’s shareholders will receive 0.305 shares of parent company common stock in