American Water Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American Water Works and Essential Utilities is 0.93 (i.e., Almost no diversification). A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as American Water moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if American Water Works moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction.

American Water Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between American Water Works and DJI is -0.1 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Water Works and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American Water Works. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in housing.

Moving together with American Stock

  0.86WTRG Essential Utilities Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.73AWR American States WaterPairCorr
  0.8CWT California Water ServicePairCorr
  0.75HTO H2O America Symbol ChangePairCorr
  0.71YORW York WaterPairCorr
  0.67MSEX Middlesex WaterPairCorr
  0.81ED Consolidated EdisonPairCorr
  0.87SO Southern Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.62SR Spire IncPairCorr
  0.67EVRG Evergy,PairCorr
  0.85AEP American Electric PowerPairCorr
  0.76AVA AvistaPairCorr

Moving against American Stock

  0.38CDZI Cadiz IncPairCorr
  0.32PCYO Pure CyclePairCorr
  0.32CWCO Consolidated WaterPairCorr
  0.37ENLT Enlight Renewable EnergyPairCorr
  0.34BEP Brookfield RenewablePairCorr
  0.33AES AES Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.32CEG Constellation Energy CorpPairCorr

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
High positive correlations   
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WTRGAWR
ARTNAAWR
YORWCWT
AWRCWT
  
High negative correlations   
GWRSSJW
GWRSARTNA
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SJWMSEX
GWRSCWT
WTRGSJW

Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between American Stock performing well and American Water Company doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze American Water's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.