UBS Maintains Buy on Essential Utilities, Lowers Price Target to $47
UBS analyst Gregg Orrill maintains Essential Utilities (NYSE:WTRG) with a Buy and lowers the price target from $49 to $47.
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Essential Utilities Q2 EPS $0.37 Misses $0.39 Estimate, Sales $530.854M Miss $551.300M Estimate
Essential Utilities (NYSE:WTRG) reported quarterly earnings of $0.37 per share which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $0.39 by 5.13 percent. This is a 2.63 percent decrease over earnings of $0.38 per share from
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