Essential Utilities, Inc. (WTRG)
NYSE · Common stock · Water Supply
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WTRG at a glance
Key statistics
$11.63B
Market capitalization
- Previous close
- $40.98
- Open
- $40.99
- Day range
- $40.74 – $41.26
- Volume
- 1.11M
- Average volume (30 sessions)
- 2.52M
- Shares outstanding
- 283.78M
- Price / earnings
- 21.0
- Earnings per share
- $1.96
- Price / book
- 1.5
- Price / sales
- 4.5
- Dividend yield
- 3.33%
- Beta (1 year, vs SPY)
- -0.39
Where the price sits in its year
52-week range
76% of the range
- Below the 52-week high
- -3.7%
- Above the 52-week low
- +13.4%
Completed sessions through Oct 20, 2026
Technical snapshot
Above its 50-day and 200-day averages
- 20-day average
- $39.47+3.8%
- 50-day average
- $40.37+1.5%
- 200-day average
- $39.25+4.4%
Between the conventional 30 and 70 bands.
+4.3%
1 week
+1.2%
1 month
+4.0%
3 months
+6.8%
Year to date
-0.7%
1 year
Price change over each window, from completed sessions. Past performance does not indicate future results.
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From the public news wire
WTRG headlines
- Halper Sadeh LLC Encourages AWK, WTRG, SEMR, MBCN Shareholders to Contact the Firm to Discuss Their Rights
GlobeNewswire Inc. · Dec 20, 2025
- Halper Sadeh LLC Encourages WTRG, RNA, TCBX Shareholders to Contact the Firm to Discuss Their Rights
GlobeNewswire Inc. · Nov 22, 2025
- American Water, Essential Utilities Unite In Major Deal To Reshape US Water Market
Benzinga · Oct 27, 2025
- Peering Into Essential Utilities's Recent Short Interest - Benzinga
Benzinga · Jul 10, 2024
SEC Form 4, most recent first
Insider filings
Arnold Colleen
−2.9K
President - Aqua · Open-market sale
$112.92K · Aug 7, 2026
Lewis Wilbert Bryan
+3.7K
Director · Grant or award
$134.98K · Jun 23, 2026
Hilferty Daniel J III
+3.7K
Director · Grant or award
$134.98K · Jun 23, 2026
Bruner Christopher L
+3.7K
Director · Grant or award
$134.98K · Jun 23, 2026
Ciesinski David Alan
+3.7K
Director · Grant or award
$134.98K · Jun 23, 2026
Amato Elizabeth B
+3.7K
Director · Grant or award
$134.98K · Jun 23, 2026
Linde Tamara Louise
+3.7K
Director · Grant or award
$134.98K · Jun 23, 2026
Arnold Colleen
+2.7K
President - Aqua · Grant or award
· Feb 22, 2026
About Essential Utilities, Inc.
Essential Utilities is a Pennsylvania-based holding company for US water, wastewater, and natural gas distribution utilities. The company's water business serves 3 million people in eight states. Its largest service territory is in Pennsylvania, primarily suburban Philadelphia. Its Peoples subsidiary serves more than 740,000 gas distribution customers in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. It completed the sale of its West Virginia gas utility and the bulk of its nonregulated assets in 2024. Essential shareholders would own a 31% stake in American Water Works if the proposed all-stock merger closes in 2027.
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Security
- Common stock
- Industry
- Water Supply
- Headquarters
- Bryn Mawr, PA
- Employees
- 3,303
- Listed since
- Dec 19, 1980
- Website
- essential.co
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