Weekly 52-Week Highs Highlight: American Water Works, Visa, NetEase, Chubb

Selected companies that have recently achieved one-year high prices

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Dec 17, 2015
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According to GuruFocus list of 52-week highs, American Water Works Co. Inc. (AWK, Financial), Visa Inc. (V, Financial), NetEase Inc. (NTES, Financial) and Chubb Corp. (CB, Financial) have all reached their 52-week highs.

American Water Works reached the 52-week high of $59.20

American Water Works has a market cap of $10.55 billion. Its shares were traded at around $58.79 with a P/E ratio of 22.62 and a P/S ratio of 3.41. The dividend yield of American Water Works stocks is 2.28%. The company had an annual average earnings growth of 16.90% over the past five years.

American Water Works reported third-quarter diluted EPS of 96 cents compared to 87 cents in the third quarter of 2014. Revenue for the third quarter was $896.2 million, 5.9% higher than the prior year quarter.

President and COO, Reg. Ops. Walter Lynch sold 10,000 shares of American Water Works stock on Nov. 20 at the average price of $57.5. President, AW Enterprises Sharon Cameron sold 6,222 shares of American Water Works stock on Nov. 18 at the average price of $56.76.

Visa reached the 52-week high of $81.01

Visa has a market cap of $176.61 billion. Its shares were traded at around $79.86 with a P/E ratio of 33.47 and a P/S ratio of 14.13. The dividend yield of Visa stocks is 0.63%. The company had an annual average earnings growth of 21.30% over the past five years.

Visa has released its fourth-quarter results. For this quarter, GAAP net income was $1.5 billion, or 62 cents per diluted class A common share. This is an increase of 12% and 14% over the prior year quarter’s adjusted results. Net operating revenue in the fourth quarter was $3.6 billion, an increase of 11% over last year. Payments volume growth was 11% year over year.

NetEase reached the 52-week high of $184.95

NetEase is a leading internet technology company in China. The company develops online games and provides email services. NetEase has a market cap of $24.1 billion; its shares were traded at around $184.34 with a P/E ratio of 33.53 and a P/S ratio of 8.57. The company has a dividend yield of 0.98%, and it had an annual average earnings growth of 43.40% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated NetEase the business predictability rank of 2.5 stars.

For its third quarter, NetEase reported earnings per ADS of $2.24. Net profit was RMB 1.9 billion versus RMB 1.2 billion in the prior year quarter. Net revenue was RMB 6.7 billion, compared to RMB 3.1 billion a year ago.

Chubb reached the 52-week high of $132.57

Chubb has a market cap of $29.96 billion, and its shares were traded at around $131.94 with a P/E ratio of 15.10 and a P/S ratio of 2.19. The dividend yield of Chubb stocks is 1.68%. Chubb had an annual average earnings growth of 5.60% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated it the business predictability rank of 3 stars.

Chubb has released its third-quarter results. Net income was $601 million compared to $594 million last year. Net income per share increased 5% year over year to $2.60 compared to $2.47 a year ago.

Director Zoe Baird Budinger, Executive Vice President Richard G. Spiro and multiple other insiders have recently sold shares of Chubb stock over the past month.

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