Overview
WTRG market data
Price History
WTRG price chart · 1M
- O
- 40.99
- H
- 41.10
- L
- 40.71
- C
- 40.90
- Vol
- 30,362.00
- Source
- US equities market feed
- Observed
- Aug 26, 2026, 12:00 AM
- Cadence
- Five-minute page cache; daily and stored hourly bars
- Status
- fresh
Key Stats & Performance
- Open
- $40.99
- Previous Close
- $40.74
- Day High
- $41.10
- Day Low
- $40.71
- 52 Week High
- $41.46
- 52 Week Low
- $35.78
- 7 Day Return
- -0.43%
- 30 Day Return
- +4.32%
- 90 Day Return
- +12.50%
- 1 Year Return
- +2.29%
- Daily Notional Volume
- $1.2M Latest daily bar volume multiplied by its closing price.
Valuation & Profitability
- P/E (TTM)
- 20.38 Trailing twelve-month price-to-earnings ratio. Higher means the market is pricing in more growth. Negative or missing when earnings are negative.
- Forward P/E
- — P/E based on consensus forward EPS estimates. Lower versus trailing implies expected earnings growth.
- EPS (TTM)
- $2.20 Diluted earnings per share over the trailing twelve months.
- Beta
- 0.62 Volatility relative to the index. 1.00 equals market, above 1 amplifies the broad-market move, below 1 dampens it.
- Dividend Yield
- 3.6% Annual dividend per share divided by current price. Zero or blank when the company does not pay a dividend.
- Profit Margin
- 21.6% Net income divided by revenue. Comparable within a sector, less so across sectors.
- 52w range
- $36.11 – $42.37 Lowest and highest closing prices over the past 52 weeks.
- Analyst Target
- — Mean of sell-side analyst 12-month price targets. Use as a sentiment gauge; targets are biased upward in aggregate.
Display-only. Refreshed once per symbol per 24 hours · market cap $11.3B · P/B 1.58 · P/S 4.40.
Company News
8-K filing — Essential Utilities, Inc. (WTRG)SEC EDGAR · Aug 17, 2026, 8:11 PM
Essential Utilities Q2 EPS $0.37 Misses $0.39 Estimate, Sales $530.854M Miss $551.300M EstimateBenzinga · Aug 4, 2026, 8:48 PM
Essential Utilities Increases Its Quarterly Cash Dividend From $0.3426 To $0.3606Benzinga · Jul 29, 2026, 10:05 PM
Barclays Maintains Underweight on Essential Utilities, Raises Price Target to $40Benzinga · Jul 15, 2026, 11:56 AM
UBS Upgrades Essential Utilities to Buy, Raises Price Target to $43Benzinga · May 29, 2026, 2:02 PM