American Water Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American Water Works and Essential Utilities is 0.8 (i.e., Very poor 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

Average diversification

The correlation between American Water Works and DJI is 0.15 (i.e., Average 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.
  
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Moving together with American Stock

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Moving against American Stock

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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.