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Essential Utilities, Inc. WTRG

$40.90+0.38%

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

Provider-backed
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

5 captured
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

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