Price
$40.04+3.92%Social Signal Score
Analyst Ratings
18 analystsRevenue
$530.85M+134.28%Analyst Estimates
Consensus estimates, not results. Via Financial Modeling Prep.
Company Profile
- CEO
- Christopher H. Franklin
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Regulated Water
- Employees
- 3,303
- Beta
- 0.63
- Country
- US
- Piotroski score
- 7 / 9 (Strong)
- Altman Z-score
- 0.96
Financials
Revenue
$530.85M+134.3%Net Income
$105.72M+44.5%EBITDA
$302.12M+122.1%Free Cash Flow
$-51.14M-657.7%EPS (diluted)
$0.37-9.8%Shares Outstanding (diluted)
284.09M+59.8%Operating Expenses
$153.63MCash & Debt
$8.63MReturn of Capital
$97.19MRevenue by Segment (annual)
$2.48BDividend per Share
$0.36Quote
Valuation & Ratios
Returns & Efficiency
Revenue & Net Income (Annual)
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Net Income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $2.47B | $616.37M | $2.20 |
| 2024 | $2.09B | $595.31M | $2.17 |
| 2023 | $2.05B | $498.23M | $1.86 |
| 2022 | $2.29B | $465.24M | $1.77 |
| 2021 | $1.88B | $431.61M | $1.68 |
| 2020 | $1.46B | $284.85M | $1.14 |
| 2019 | $889.69M | $224.54M | $1.04 |
| 2018 | $838.09M | $191.99M | $1.08 |
| 2017 | $809.52M | $239.74M | $1.35 |
| 2016 | $819.88M | $234.18M | $1.32 |
| 2015 | $814.20M | $201.79M | $1.14 |
| 2014 | $779.90M | $233.24M | $1.32 |
| 2013 | $768.64M | $221.30M | $1.26 |
| 2012 | $757.76M | $196.56M | $1.13 |
Valuation
Project earnings forward and see what return today's price implies.
Seeded from WTRG's reported EPS growth of 5.3% a year over 13 years.
- EPS in 5 years
- $2.85
- Implied price
- $48.44
- Return from $38.73
- 4.6% a year
To earn 15.0% a year on these assumptions you'd need to buy at $24.08 — -37.8% below today's price.
How sensitive is that answer?
Annual return across nearby assumptions. If the result is only attractive in one corner, that is the finding.
| growth \ P/E | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -4.7% | -13.2% | -9.0% | -5.4% | -2.2% | 0.5% |
| 0.3% | -8.7% | -4.2% | -0.4% | 2.9% | 5.8% |
| 5.3% | -4.1% | 0.6% | 4.6% | 8.0% | 11.1% |
| 10.3% | 0.4% | 5.4% | 9.5% | 13.2% | 16.4% |
| 15.3% | 5.0% | 10.1% | 14.5% | 18.3% | 21.6% |
This is arithmetic on assumptions you chose, not a forecast or a recommendation. It ignores dividends, buybacks, share issuance and debt, and it assumes a company still earning money in 5 years. Change any input and the answer changes a lot — that sensitivity is the honest result, not a flaw in the model.
Signal Score (90d)
55-63.41%Social Signal Score
Mentions (7)
- Newszacks.com·3d ago·Neutral
WTRG's Aqua Pennsylvania Acquires Ulster Municipal Water Systems Essential Utilities' Aqua Pennsylvania unit acquired Ulster's water assets for $0.5 million, adding 180 customers and planning $2 million in upgrades over five years.
View source ↗ - News (Marketaux)seekingalpha.com·18d ago·Neutral
Essential Utilities: The Buy Window Is Closed Now (Rating Downgrade) (NYSE:WTRG) Essential Utilities: The Buy Window Is Closed Now (Rating Downgrade) (NYSE:WTRG)
View source ↗ - 4chan /biz/biz·24d ago·Negative
Boats on the hudson today are spraying red white and blue water I once dumped 1 gal blue food dye (Ticker: ADM) into a 2000 gal water (Ticker: WTRG) feature. Only stayed blue for about 15 minutes. Fish are probably ok (Ticker: AQB)
View source ↗ - News (RSS)yahoo·29d ago·Neutral
Essential Utilities (WTRG) Keeps Growing While Profits Quietly Slide
View source ↗ - Newszacks.com·35d ago·Positive
Will Customer Growth Support Essential Utilities ' Long-Term Earnings? WTRG's expanding customer base, acquisitions and infrastructure spending support its long-term earnings growth potential.
View source ↗ - News (Marketaux)finance.yahoo.com·57d ago·Positive
Essential Utilities Q2 Earnings Call Highlights Essential Utilities (<[+285 characters]
View source ↗ - Newsmarketbeat.com·57d ago·Negative
Essential Utilities Q2 Earnings Call Highlights Essential Utilities NYSE: WTRG reported second-quarter 2026 GAAP earnings of $0.37 per share, compared with $0.38 per share in the prior-year quarter, as higher regulatory recoveries and water volumes were offset by lower gas volumes, increased operating expenses, depreciation and interest costs.
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Earnings
Tue, Nov 3(in 4 weeks)
Consensus estimate $0.35 per share
Typical surprise +16.5% (median, so one quarter with a near-zero estimate can't distort it)
- Tue, Aug 4$0.38 vs $0.37beat
- Wed, May 6$0.83 vs $0.91miss
- Wed, Feb 25$0.47 vs $0.36beat
- Tue, Nov 4$0.33 vs $0.28beat
- Thu, Jul 31$0.38 vs $0.29beat
- Mon, May 12$1.03 vs $0.80beat
Estimates and results for WTRG via Financial Modeling Prep. Beating consensus says the company cleared the bar analysts set, not that the business grew.
Insider trading
Open-market buys and sells by WTRG officers and directors.
- Bought
- $109k
- Sold
- $1.2m
1 trade
8 trades
- Arnold Colleensold
- Franklin Chrissold
- Rubin Robert Asold
- Rubin Robert Asold
- Rubin Robert Asold
- Rubin Robert Asold
- Rubin Robert Asold
- Rubin Robert Asold
91 further Form 4 entries are share awards, option exercises or shares withheld for tax. Those are compensation, not trades, so they are excluded above. Buying is the stronger signal: an insider spends their own money for one reason. Selling has many innocent explanations — tax, diversifying, a house — so it says far less than it appears to. Via SEC filings.
Congress trades
- Lisa C. McClainhouse · MI09 · disclosed Nov 24, 2025 (25d later)Buy$1,001 - $15,000
- Lisa C. McClainhouse · MI09 · disclosed Nov 24, 2025 (24d later)Sell$1,001 - $15,000
- Lisa C. McClainhouse · MI09 · disclosed Nov 24, 2025 (25d later)Sell$1,001 - $15,000
- Lisa C. McClainhouse · MI09 · disclosed Oct 22, 2025 (27d later)Buy$1,001 - $15,000
- Daniel Milton Newhousehouse · WA04 · disclosed May 16, 2025 (35d later)Sell$1,001 - $15,000
- Michael Guesthouse · MS03 · disclosed Feb 24, 2023 (44d later)Sell$1,001 - $15,000
- Susie Leehouse · NV03 · disclosed Jul 10, 2020 (36d later)Sell$1,001 - $15,000
- Susie Leehouse · NV03 · disclosed Jun 15, 2020 (49d later)Buy$1,001 - $15,000
- Angus Kingsenate · ME · disclosed Apr 22, 2020 (48d later)Sell$1,001 - $15,000
Self-reported filings, amounts as brackets. Via Senate/House disclosures.