Essential Utilities Financial Ratios
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Essential Utilities ratio analysis
Essential Utilities earned a net margin of 24.9% in FY 2025, down from 28.5% a year earlier. Return on equity reached 9.0%, meaning Essential Utilities generated 0.09 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity. Debt-to-equity stood at 1.19 versus 1.21 the year before, and the current ratio was 0.80.
At the end of FY 2025, WTRG traded at 17.6 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 16.7 to 44.4, with a median of 28.0. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Essential Utilities financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 17.58 | 16.66 | 20.08 | 26.97 | 32.15 | 42.22 | 44.43 | 30.97 | 29.06 | 22.76 |
| Price / sales | 4.38 | 4.75 | 4.86 | 5.47 | 7.36 | 8.08 | 11.20 | 7.10 | 8.61 | 6.50 |
| Price / book | 1.58 | 1.60 | 1.69 | 2.33 | 2.67 | 2.52 | 2.57 | 2.96 | 3.56 | 2.88 |
| Operating margin | 37.2% | 36.3% | 33.7% | 28.9% | 32.1% | 29.7% | 38.2% | 38.6% | 41.2% | 40.7% |
| Net margin | 24.9% | 28.5% | 24.3% | 20.3% | 23.0% | 19.5% | 25.2% | 22.9% | 29.6% | 28.6% |
| Free cash flow margin | 40.8% | 36.9% | 45.5% | 26.2% | 34.3% | 34.7% | 38.0% | -15.2% | -12.0% | 1.6% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 9.0% | 9.6% | 8.4% | 8.7% | 8.3% | 6.1% | 5.8% | 9.6% | 12.2% | 12.7% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 3.2% | 3.3% | 3.0% | 3.0% | 2.9% | 2.1% | 2.4% | 2.8% | 3.8% | 3.8% |
| Debt / equity | 1.19 | 1.21 | 1.17 | 1.22 | 1.14 | 1.19 | 0.79 | 1.27 | 1.08 | 1.02 |
| Current ratio | 0.80 | 0.50 | 0.62 | 0.64 | 0.65 | 0.63 | 6.23 | 0.37 | 0.46 | 0.43 |
| Revenue growth | 18.6% | 1.6% | -10.2% | 21.8% | 28.4% | 64.4% | 6.2% | 3.5% | -1.3% | 0.7% |
| EPS growth | 1.4% | 16.7% | 5.1% | 6.0% | 49.1% | 7.7% | -3.7% | -20.0% | 2.3% | 15.8% |