Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-250649
Chunk: 5

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 425
Chunk 5
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 of October 26, 2025, by and among American Water Works Company, Inc., Alpha Merger Sub, Inc., and Essential Utilities, Inc. 
 Joint Press Release, dated October 27, 2025, issued by American Water Works Company, Inc. and Essential Utilities, Inc.                                            |
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| 99.2**  |     | Joint Investor Presentation of American Water Works Company, Inc. and Essential Utilities, Inc., as of October 27, 2025.                                           |
| 104     |     | Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are included and formatted as Inline XBRL).                                                             |

| * | Filed herewith. Certain schedules and exhibits to this agreement have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2)                                      
 of Regulation S-K. The Company will furnish the omitted schedules and exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) upon request. |

| ** | Furnished herewith. |

The Merger Agreement filed as Exhibit 2.1 herewith has been included to provide investors and security holders with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about American Water or Essential, or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement (i) were made by the parties thereto only for purposes of that agreement and as of specific dates; (ii) were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement; (iii) may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosure schedules exchanged between the parties in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement (such disclosure schedules having included information in each party’s public disclosures, as well as additional non-publicinformation); (iv) may have been made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts; and (v) may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of American Water or Essential, or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Additionally, the representations, warranties, covenants, conditions and other terms of the Merger Agreement may be subject to subsequent waiver or modification. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations