Список проголосовавших за комментарий " <table class="BriefingDataTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr> <td class="tickerColumn"> </td> <td class="articleColumn">Aqua America upgrade details — to Overweight at Barclays; tgt raised to $36 (31.76 +0.57)Barclays upgrades WTR to Overweight from Equal Weight and raises their tgt to $36 from $33. Firm calls attention to the Flint, Michigan tragedy in 2016 which put water quality and safety into the spotlight and thereby re-positioned investor-owned water utilities for LT growth buoyed by infrastructure spending and consolidation. Regulatory mechanisms such as infrastructure surcharges, repair tax deductions, single tariff pricing, and rev decoupling are supportive of capital spending programs and reduce regulatory lag. The U.S. water industry is highly fragmented, with ~85% of the water systems municipally-owned. Budgetary constraints and compliance mandates are driving municipalities to give serious consideration to coming under the umbrella of a larger (investor-owned) entity. This is most easily accomplished in the states that already have Fair Market Value legislation allowing for economic consolidation of the industry. <strong>Firm therefore feels AWK and WTR are well-positioned to capitalize on consolidation opportunities.</strong></td> </tr></table>"