American Water Added to Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes.VOORHEES, N.J. -- American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AWK (Aho Weinberger Kernighan) A Unix programming utility developed in 1977 by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan. Due to its unique pattern-matching syntax, awk is often used in data retrieval and data transformation. ), the largest investor-owned U.S. water and wastewater utility company, today announced that its common shares have been added to multiple Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes Wilshire indexes Widely followed performance measurement indexes measuring performance of all U.S.-headquartered equity securities with readily available price data, created by Wilshire Associates, Inc. . Shares of American Water, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. on April 23, 2008, were added to following Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes after the close of market on May 19, 2008: * Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index Composite Index A grouping of equities, indexes or other factors combined in a standardized way, providing a useful statistical measure of overall market or sector performance over time. Also known simply as a "composite". (SM) * Dow Jones Wilshire 4500 Completion Index(SM) * Dow Jones Wilshire Global Total Market Index(SM) * Dow Jones Wilshire U.S. Utilities Index(SM) * Dow Jones Wilshire U.S. Gas, Water and Multi-Utilities Index(SM) * Dow Jones Wilshire U.S. Water Index(SM) "American Water is pleased to join the Dow Jones Wilshire index family," said Don Correll, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of American Water. "These indexes provide an excellent measure of the value of U.S. equities available today and serve as a benchmark for use by the investment community." About American Water Founded in 1886, American Water is the largest investor-owned U.S. water and wastewater utility company. With headquarters in Voorhees, N.J., the company employs nearly 7,000 dedicated professionals who provide drinking water, wastewater and other related services to approximately 15.6 million people in 32 states and Ontario, Canada. |
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