American States Water is a holding company. Co. is the parent company of Golden State Water Company (GSWC), Bear Valley Electric Service, Inc. (BVESI) and American States Utility Services, Inc. (ASUS). Co. has three reportable segments: water, electric and contracted services. Within the segments, Co. has three principal business units, water and electric service utility operations conducted through its regulated utilities GSWC and BVESI, respectively, and contracted services conducted through ASUS and its subsidiaries. The AWR stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the AWR stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2015 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the AWR annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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