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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) EV/EBITDA

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As of 4 November 2026, Essential Utilities Inc. (WTRG) trades at a EV/EBITDA of 15.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 13.5× (June 2015) to 31.8× (June 2020); the current reading is higher than 21% of that period. That is above the Utilities Regulated Water industry median of 14.8× and above the Utilities sector median of 12.4×.

EV/EBITDA, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
FY2025 14.2× (9.32%)
FY2024 15.6× (5.52%)
FY2023 16.6× (16.22%)
FY2022 19.8× (10.05%)
FY2021 22.0× (13.03%)
FY2020 25.3× 10.81%
FY2019 22.8× 24.02%
FY2018 18.4× (3.71%)
FY2017 19.1× 23.55%
FY2016 15.5× (1.23%)

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
Sep 2026 14.1× (2.76%)
Jun 2026 14.5× (3.27%)
Mar 2026 14.9× 5.34%
Dec 2025 14.2× (1.73%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 13.5× High 31.8×
Ten-year median 17.2×
Current reading's percentile 21

EV/EBITDA against peers

Company EV/EBITDA
SBS Companhia de saneamento Basico Do Estado De Sao Paulo - Sabesp compare 7.9×
CWCO Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. compare 13.1×
HTO H2O America compare 13.3×
CWT California Water Service Group compare 13.6×
AWK American Water Works Company, Inc. compare 14.9×
YORW The York Water Company compare 15.4×
MSEX Middlesex Water Company compare 15.5×
WTRG Essential Utilities Inc. 15.7×
AWR American States Water Company compare 15.8×
Utilities Regulated Water industry median 14.8×
Utilities sector median 12.4×
Market median 11.2×

What EV/EBITDA is

Enterprise Value over EBITDA tells an investor how the market values a whole company, with debt added and cash taken off, against its operating earnings.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ EBITDA (TTM)

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