Essential Utilities Inc (NYSE: WTRG) on Monday, plunged -4.02% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $40.76. Within the past 52 weeks, WTRG’s price has moved between $33.18 and $41.78.
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Utilities Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 21.19% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 6.49%. With a float of $274.77 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $274.82 million.
The firm has a total of 3291 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 49.92%, operating margin of 36.32%, and the pretax margin is 27.49%.
Essential Utilities Inc (WTRG) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Utilities – Regulated Water industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Essential Utilities Inc is 0.27%, while institutional ownership is 80.35%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 14 ’25, was worth 303,380. In this transaction Chief Executive Officer of this company sold 7,700 shares at a rate of $39.40, taking the stock ownership to the 32,229 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 14 ’25, when Company’s Chief Executive Officer proposed sale 7,700 for $39.40, making the entire transaction worth $303,380.
Essential Utilities Inc (WTRG) Recent Fiscal highlights
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.32 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.49% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.60% during the next five years compared to 15.84% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Essential Utilities Inc (NYSE: WTRG) Trading Performance Indicators
Essential Utilities Inc (WTRG) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.40 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.17.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.17, a number that is poised to hit 0.29 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.23 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Essential Utilities Inc (WTRG)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Essential Utilities Inc, WTRG], we can find that recorded value of 1.47 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 1.64 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 34.28%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.96.
During the past 100 days, Essential Utilities Inc’s (WTRG) raw stochastic average was set at 70.13%, which indicates a significant increase from 6.42% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 20.96% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 25.48% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $39.63, while its 200-day Moving Average is $38.49. Now, the first resistance to watch is $40.56. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $41.99. The third major resistance level sits at $42.80. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $38.32, it is likely to go to the next support level at $37.51. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $36.08.
Essential Utilities Inc (NYSE: WTRG) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 10.78 billion based on 275,524K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 2,086 M and income totals 595,310 K. The company made 604,380 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 184,760 K in sales during its previous quarter.
