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Essential Utilities Inc.

WTRG Utilities Utilities Regulated Water

Essential Utilities Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.5 billion, up 18.6% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+6.56%
EPS
+12.1%
Free cash flow
−1.23%
Total debt
+1.34%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

45.07 1.03 +2.34%
Market cap
$12.5B
P/E
22.6×
Fwd P/E
19.6×
Dividend yield
3.88%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
0.95
Beneish M
−2.29
Dividend safety
42/100
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Essential Utilities Inc. (WTRG) Book value per share

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Essential Utilities Inc.'s book value per share at the end of fiscal 2025 was 24.5×, up 8.20% from 22.6× in fiscal 2024. At the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 it was 25.1×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 9.8× (fiscal 2015) to 24.5× (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. Essential Utilities Inc. ranks 7th of 12 Utilities Regulated Water companies by book value per share.

Book value per share, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Book value per share Change
FY2025 24.5× 8.20%
FY2024 22.6× 2.54%
FY2023 22.1× 7.63%
FY2022 20.5× 1.84%
FY2021 20.1× 7.37%
FY2020 18.8× 4.16%
FY2019 18.0× 59.41%
FY2018 11.3× 2.48%
FY2017 11.0× 5.61%
FY2016 10.4× 6.90%

Quarterly newest first

Period Book value per share Change
Sep 2026 25.1× 1.27%
Jun 2026 24.7× 1.64%
Mar 2026 24.3× (0.59%)
Dec 2025 24.5× 1.23%
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Against its own ten years

Low 9.8× High 24.5×
Ten-year median 18.8×
Current reading's percentile 100

Book value per share against peers

Company Book value per share
AWK American Water Works Company, Inc. compare 60.0×
HTO H2O America compare 52.5×
CWT California Water Service Group compare 30.6×
MSEX Middlesex Water Company compare 28.9×
AWR American States Water Company compare 28.5×
WTRG Essential Utilities Inc. 24.7×
YORW The York Water Company compare 18.5×
CWCO Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. compare 14.4×
SBS Companhia de saneamento Basico Do Estado De Sao Paulo - Sabesp compare 2.6×

What Book value per share is

BV per Share tells an investor how much of a company’s accounting net worth stands behind each share.

(Shareholders Equity (Total) ÷ Shares (Basic, Weighted))

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