Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001410636-25-000173
Chunk: 184

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 184
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 which our Regulated Businesses currently do not operate.

It is possible that the integration process could take longer than anticipated and could result in the loss of valuable employees, the disruption of each company’s ongoing businesses, processes and systems or inconsistencies in standards, controls, procedures, practices, policies and compensation arrangements, any of which could adversely affect the combined company’s ability to achieve the anticipated benefits of the proposed merger as and when expected. The combined company may have difficulty addressing possible differences in corporate cultures and management philosophies, and the various management and corporate governance constructs provided for in the merger agreement to govern the combined company, including with respect to the board of directors of the combined company, may not operate successfully as intended or desired. Failure to achieve these anticipated benefits could result in increased costs or decreases in the amount of expected revenues and otherwise adversely affect the combined company’s future business, financial condition, operating results and prospects.

The proposed merger may not be accretive to our earnings and may adversely affect our earnings per share, which may negatively affect the market price of our common stock.

We currently anticipate that the proposed merger will be accretive to our earnings per share in 2028, the first full year following the completion of the proposed merger. This expectation is based on preliminary estimates that are subject to change. We also could encounter additional transaction and integration-related costs, may fail to realize all of the benefits anticipated in the proposed merger or be subject to other factors that affect our preliminary estimates. Any of these factors could cause a decrease in our earnings per share or decrease or delay the expected accretive effect of the proposed merger and contribute to a decrease in the market price of our common stock.

The combined company’s financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be adversely affected by unknown or unexpected events, conditions or actions that occur prior to the closing of the proposed merger.

The combined company’s assets, liabilities, business, financial condition, cash flows, and operating results, as well as its business strategies and prospects, could be adversely affected before or after the closing of the proposed merger as a result of previously unknown events or conditions occurring or existing before closing. Adverse changes in our or Essential’s business or operations could occur or arise as a result of actions by us or Essential, or as a result of legal or regulatory developments (including, without limitation, the emergence or unfavorable resolution of pre-acquisition loss contingencies, deteriorating general business, market, industry or economic conditions), and other factors both within and beyond the control of us or Essential.