Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-064607
Chunk: 82

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 82
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 A. Warnock. |

| (6) | The cumulative TSR reported above for the Company’s peer group for (i) 2023 ($94.14) would have been $92.18 if the companies in the 2022 peer group had been used instead and (ii) 2022 ($106.97) would have been $106.63 if the companies in the 2021 peer group had been used instead. There were no peer group changes that impacted compensation for 2024, 2021 or 2020. |

| (7) | During 2021, Walter J. Lynch served as our PEO until his retirement on February 2, 2022. |

| (8) | Mr. Lynchwas PEO as of December 31, 2020, after succeedingSusan N. Storyas our PEO upon her retirement effective April 1, 2020. |

The following is an unranked tabular list of the most important financial and non-financial measures that we use to link compensation “actually paid” (as defined by SEC rule and set forth above) to all of our NEOs during 2024 to our performance. The Company-Selected Measure is denoted with an asterisk.

| Tabular List of Performance Measures |     |                        |
| Financial                            |     | Non-Financial          |
| EPS*                                 |     | DART                   |
| EPS CAGR                             |     | Drinking Water Quality |
| Relative TSR                         |     | Customer Satisfaction  |
| ROE                                  |     |                        |

The following graphs present the relationship during 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 between (1) executive compensation “actually paid” (as defined by SEC rule and shown above) to (a) each person serving as PEO and (b) all of our other NEOs on an average basis, and each of (2) (a) our cumulative TSR for such years, (b) our GAAP net income for such years, and (c) the Company-Selected Measure for such years, and a comparison of the cumulative TSR for such years of us and our peer group.

| 62 |     | AMERICAN WATER |2025 PROXY STATEMENT |

| * | 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 results reflect Adjusted EPS. See Appendix A for a reconciliation of Adjusted EPS. |

Executive compensation “actually paid” (