WTRG

Essential Utilities, Inc.
NYSEUSDEQUITY Utilities DELAYED
Last price
38.81
▲ 0.14 (0.36%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
—
Prev close
38.67
Day high
39.05
Day low
38.47
Volume
1.92M
Market cap
$11.01B
P/E (TTM)
19.80
52W range
36.11 – 42.51

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
-1.07% -3.0%
1M
-6.93% -8.1%
3M
+0.13% -4.4%
6M
-4.10% -22.3%
YTD
+1.17% -13.1%
1Y
-1.45% -17.9%
3Y
+13.05% -69.2%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

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5 more panels on WTRG open with an account.

Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
+19.14K
Net buying
Buy transactions
6
22.00K shares
Sell transactions
1
2.85K shares
Net transactions
+7
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
0.1 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
627.15K
Total on file
Bought 22.00KSold 2.85K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Aug 7, 26
ARNOLD COLLEEN F
Officer
SELL 2.85K $112.92K Direct
Jun 23, 26
HILFERTY DANIEL J III
Director
STOCK 3.67K $134.98K Direct
Jun 23, 26
LEWIS WILBERT BRYAN
Director
STOCK 3.67K $134.98K Direct
Jun 23, 26
BRUNER CHRISTOPHER L
Director
STOCK 3.67K $134.98K Direct
Jun 23, 26
AMATO ELIZABETH B.
Director
STOCK 3.67K $134.98K Direct
Jun 23, 26
LINDE TAMARA LOUISE
Director
STOCK 3.67K $134.98K Direct
Jun 23, 26
CIESINSKI DAVID ALAN
Director
STOCK 3.67K $134.98K Direct
Feb 20, 26
HUWAR MICHAEL
Officer
STOCK 2.60K $0 Direct
Feb 20, 26
HUWAR MICHAEL
Officer
STOCK 2.60K $0 Direct
Feb 20, 26
PALMER BRADLEY JOHN
Officer
STOCK 246 $0 Direct
Feb 20, 26
SCHULLER DANIEL J
Officer
STOCK 6.68K $0 Direct
Feb 20, 26
SCHULLER DANIEL J
Officer
STOCK 6.68K $0 Direct
Feb 20, 26
ARNOLD COLLEEN F
Officer
STOCK 2.75K $0 Direct
Feb 20, 26
ARNOLD COLLEEN F
Officer
STOCK 2.75K $0 Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
AMATO ELIZABETH B.
Director 26.64K Stock Award(Grant)
ARNOLD COLLEEN F
Officer 19.18K Sale
CIESINSKI DAVID ALAN
Director 16.80K Stock Award(Grant)
FRANKLIN CHRISTOPHER H
Chief Executive Officer 338.09K Stock Award(Grant)
HILFERTY DANIEL J III
Director 38.01K Stock Award(Grant)
HUWAR MICHAEL
Officer 21.29K Stock Award(Grant)
LEWIS WILBERT BRYAN
Director 14.00K Stock Award(Grant)
LUNING CHRISTOPHER PAUL
General Counsel 84.61K Stock Award(Grant)
RUBIN ROBERT A
Officer 74.12K Stock Award(Grant)
SCHULLER DANIEL J
Officer 83.50K Stock Award(Grant)

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$11.01B
Enterprise value$19.54B
Revenue (TTM)$2.57B
Gross profit$1.45B
EBITDA$1.35B
Net income$554.87M
EPS (TTM)$1.96
Free cash flow$-657.63M
Total cash$8.63M
Total debt$8.54B
Book value / share$24.73
Shares outstanding283.63M
Float282.84M
Short % of float3.05%
Dividend yield3.72%
Beta (5Y)0.62

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E19.80
Forward P/E16.31
PEG ratio3.45
Price / sales—
Price / book1.57
EV / revenue7.61
EV / EBITDA14.48
Gross margin56.43%
Operating margin35.41%
Profit margin21.60%
Return on equity8.08%
Return on assets2.96%
Debt / equity121.66
Current ratio0.78
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $2.47B$2.09B$2.05B$2.29B +18.6%
Operating revenue $2.47B$2.09B$2.05B$2.29B +18.6%
Cost of revenue $1.04B$864.26M$927.82M$1.22B +20.7%
Gross profit $1.43B$1.22B$1.13B$1.07B +17.1%
Total operating expense $510.24M$464.19M$433.90M$411.20M +9.9%
Operating income $920.95M$757.67M$692.10M$661.19M +21.6%
Net interest income -$327.38M-$299.15M-$279.96M-$234.44M -9.4%
Pre-tax income $619.81M$573.48M$431.78M$450.91M +8.1%
Tax provision $3.44M-$21.84M-$66.44M-$14.33M +115.8%
Net income $616.37M$595.31M$498.23M$465.24M +3.5%
Net income to common $616.37M$595.31M$498.23M$465.24M +3.5%
Basic EPS 2.202.171.861.77 +1.4%
Diluted EPS 2.202.171.861.77 +1.4%
EBIT $948.89M$875.95M$715.14M$689.02M +8.3%
EBITDA $1.37B$1.25B$1.06B$1.01B +9.7%
Basic shares 280.05M273.91M267.17M262.25M +2.2%
Diluted shares 280.62M274.42M267.66M262.87M +2.3%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.33
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
—
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
30.00
-22.7% from spot
ATM implied vol
6.3%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
-12.5%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
6
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
2
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
35.00
0 contracts
Heaviest put OI
30.00
0 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 0.390.37 -3.9%
Mar 2026 0.870.83 -4.9%
Dec 2025 0.400.47 +17.2%
Sep 2025 0.280.33 +15.9%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 0.34 1 $0 —
Next quarter 0.69 1 $0 —
Current year 2.22 5 $2.48B +0.1%
Next year 2.38 7 $2.65B +7.1%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$42.20
High target$49.00
Low target$38.00
Implied upside8.73%
Analyst count5
ConsensusHOLD
Strong buy / Buy0 / 2
Hold3
Sell / Strong sell0 / 2
Held by insiders0.22%
Held by institutions81.97%
Institutions holding907
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
39.24
-1.09% from price
SMA 20
40.26
-3.60% from price
SMA 50
40.42
-3.98% from price
SMA 100
39.15
-0.87% from price
SMA 200
39.19
-0.96% from price
EMA 12
39.46
-1.65% from price
EMA 26
39.99
-2.96% from price
EMA 50
40.03
-3.05% from price
RSI (14)
37.5
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-0.53
Hist -0.21
ATR (14)
0.76
1.95% of price
Realised vol 30D
15.2%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
42.53
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
37.99
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
40.42 vs 39.19
Trend bias
Below 200
-0.96%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 38.81
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
-0.38
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
-0.23
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
15.2%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-13.5%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-39.3%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
0.76
1.95% of price
Beta (reported)
0.62
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
7.54M
Prior 5.19M
Change vs prior
+45.5%
Shorts adding
% of float
3.05%
Normal
% of shares out
2.66%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
3.2
Liquid
Float
282.84M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

55 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Sep 10, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jul 15, 26 Barclays MAINTAINED Underweight Underweight
Jul 2, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Buy Buy
May 29, 26 UBS UPGRADE Neutral Buy
Dec 17, 25 Barclays DOWNGRADE Overweight Underweight
Oct 28, 25 Jefferies DOWNGRADE Buy Hold
Oct 28, 25 UBS DOWNGRADE Buy Neutral
Oct 27, 25 Janney Montgomery Scott DOWNGRADE Buy Neutral
Oct 10, 25 Barclays MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Oct 10, 25 Jefferies MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Oct 2, 25 Barclays INITIATED — Overweight
Aug 15, 25 UBS MAINTAINED Buy Buy

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$1.44 / yr
Forward yield3.72%
5-year avg yield2.90%
Payout ratio69.92%
Ex-dividend dateAug 11, 2026
Next pay dateSep 1, 2026
Last split5:4
Split dateSep 3, 2013

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