Witnessing the stock’s movement on the chart, on Thursday, Essential Utilities Inc (NYSE: WTRG) set off with pace as it heaved 1.65% to $41.34, before settling in for the price of $40.67 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, WTRG posted a 52-week range of $33.18-$41.65.
In the past 5-years timespan, the Utilities sector firm’s annual sales growth was 15.84%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 15.84%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 7.79%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $280.47 million, simultaneously with a float of $279.78 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $11.59 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $38.97, while the 200-day Moving Average is $38.06.
Essential Utilities Inc (WTRG) Ownership Facts and Figures
Nothing is more important than checking the behaviour of major investors towards the stock of the Utilities – Regulated Water industry. Essential Utilities Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.24%, in contrast to 80.60% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 14 ’25, this organization’s Chief Executive Officer sold 7,700 shares at the rate of 39.40, making the entire transaction reach 303,380 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 32,229.
Essential Utilities Inc (WTRG) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.44 per share during the current fiscal year.
Essential Utilities Inc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 7.79% and is forecasted to reach 2.23 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 6.92% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 15.84% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Essential Utilities Inc (NYSE: WTRG) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Essential Utilities Inc (WTRG). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.58. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $17.68, and its Beta score is 0.82. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 4.96.
In the same vein, WTRG’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 2.34, a figure that is expected to reach 0.29 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 2.23 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Essential Utilities Inc (WTRG)
Going through the that latest performance of [Essential Utilities Inc, WTRG]. Its last 5-days volume of 1.71 million was inferior to the volume of 1.77 million it revealed a year ago. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 74.34% While, its Average True Range was 67.69.
Raw Stochastic average of Essential Utilities Inc (WTRG) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 96.17%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 93.63% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 0.86 that was higher than 0.65 volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
