Aqua America also has a better margin: For the trailing 12 months, its operating margin is 40%, versus American States' 26.1%. This advantage carries through to the profit margin, as is often the ...

Aqua America's dividend is a little higher -- it jumped from yielding 2.3% to 2.5% as a result of yesterday's stock sell-off, while American Water Works' dividend is yielding 2%.

Aqua's market cap currently stands at less than half of that, $10.55 billion, and serves more than 3 million people. Aqua's stock traded for $49.60 a share late Thursday afternoon, up about 1.45%.

7. More than just water Aqua America's commitment to the environment transcends the return of treated wastewater to streams and rivers. Since 2005, the company has participated in TreeVitalize, a ...

Aqua America is a great company for anyone, who wants to invest in natural resources, such as water, and patiently wait for the profits to come along in the long-term.

For example, through November of 2016 Aqua America managed to grow its total customer base by 1.3%, courtesy of both acquisitions, as well as organic connection increases.

BRYN MAWR – Aqua America Inc., the parent company of water and wastewater company Aqua Pennsylvania, will be changing its name, effective Feb. 3. The new company will be known as Essential Ut… ...

A faceoff between the country’s two largest publicly traded water utilities in Philadelphia’s suburbs is over, as Aqua America Inc., which is also in the midst of acquiring Pittsburgh-based ...

Aqua America received regulatory approval of its acquisition of Pittsburgh-based natural gas company Peoples for $4.275 billion at the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s Jan. 16 meeting.

Aqua America's shareholders, in this regard, have little to worry about. The company, which reported $392 million in capital expenditures (capex) in fiscal 2016, forecasts capex spending to total ...

Aqua America also has a better margin: For the trailing 12 months, its operating margin is 40%, versus American States' 26.1%. This advantage carries through to the profit margin, as is often the ...