California Water Service (CWT)

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California Water Service's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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California Water Service's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $590 million in fiscal 2016 to $964 million in fiscal 2025, up 5.6% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 2% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, California Water Service's diluted share count grew about 3.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 25% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 10 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09, buying about $24 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, California Water Service earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 70 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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California Water Service's standing among 14 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $964 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 19% by size; a net margin of 13.3% ranks in the bottom 32%; revenue growth of 7.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 32% (its annual reports).

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California Water Service's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kropelnicki, Martin A (Chairman President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2013-09-06, 13.2 years (top 19% of its family); the 25 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.9 years (top 50%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 25 people in charge now (top 4%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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California Water Service's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $52 million against debt of $1.5 billion leaves -25% of its assets as net cash, top 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 31.4% of revenue (top 32%) (its annual report).

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California Water Service's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.6% a year over the last three filed years against 5.6% over all 10, speeding up (bottom 46% of its family); the newest year grew 6.4% (bottom 46%) (its annual reports). California Water Service tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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California Water Service's newest year against its own record: revenue of $964 million in fiscal 2025 came in 1.7% below the $980 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 42% of its family); net income of $128 million against a prior three-year average of $113 million (bottom 42%); a net margin of 13.3% against 13.4% before (bottom 35%) (its annual reports).