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Essential Utilities

NYQ:WTRG US03836W1036
23
  • Value
    61
  • Growth
    39
  • Safety
    Safety
    59
  • Combined
    69
  • Sentiment
    3
  • 360° View
    360° View
    23
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Company Description

Essential Utilities, Inc. is a holding company for regulated utilities. The company operates in the water, wastewater, and natural gas industries under the Aqua and Peoples brands. It provides services in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, Indiana, Virginia, and Kentucky. In the last fiscal year, the company had a market cap of $10,504 million, a revenue of $2,086 million, and 3291 employees. The profit was not available.

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ANALYSIS: With an Obermatt 360° View of 23 (better than 23% compared with alternatives), overall professional sentiment and financial characteristics for the stock Essential Utilities are critical, mostly below average. The 360° View is based on consolidating four consolidated indicators, with half the metrics below and half above average for Essential Utilities. The consolidated Value Rank has an attractive rank of 61, which means that the share price of Essential Utilities is on the lower side compared with the typical size in indicators such as revenues, profits, and invested capital. This means the stock price is lower than for 61% of alternative stocks in the same industry. The company is also safely financed with a Safety rank of 59. But the professional market sentiment is below average compared with other stock investment alternatives with a Sentiment Rank of 3. Professional investors are more confident in 97% other stocks. The consolidated Growth Rank also has a low rank of 39, which means that the company is below average in terms of growth momentum when looking at financial metrics such as revenue, profit, invested capital growth, and stock returns. 61 of its competitors have better growth. ...read more

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Strongest Rank Sentiment
Weakest Rank Dividend Yield
Country USA
Industry Water Utilities
Size Large
Website essential.co
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The higher the 360° View, the better the stock performed against its peers, considering all metrics. The 360° View represents an average of the other 5 ranks and is then scaled to a rank from 1 to 100. The shaded values are illustrative only.
Last update: 19-Mar-2026.

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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Value
61 45 24 13
Growth
39 85 55 85
Safety
Safety
59 66 79 67
Sentiment
3 93 56 90
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23 96 60 83
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Analyst Opinions
15 93 85 82
Opinions Change
38 67 50 26
Pro Holdings
n/a 91 56 65
Market Pulse
8 50 49 80
Sentiment
3 93 56 90
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Value
61 45 24 13
Growth
39 85 55 85
Safety Safety
59 66 79 67
Combined
69 88 60 75
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Price vs. Sales (P/S)
22 13 13 10
Price vs. Earnings (P/E)
34 57 25 15
Price vs. Book (P/B)
41 61 44 23
Dividend Yield
85 53 34 25
Value
61 45 24 13
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Revenue Growth
16 92 76 93
Profit Growth
77 83 67 48
Capital Growth
61 75 77 57
Stock Returns
39 21 11 33
Growth
39 85 55 85
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Leverage
42 69 60 62
Refinancing
47 55 53 65
Liquidity
72 60 58 48
Safety Safety
59 66 79 67

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This stock is a good value with safe financing, but has low growth and negative sentiment. It is a good option for a cautious value investor looking for stability but who can tolerate low momentum and skeptical professional opinion.

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