Growth Metrics

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Debt Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Debt Ratio for 13 consecutive years, with 0.42 as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Debt Ratio changed N/A to 0.42 in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.42, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.42, changed N/A from a year prior.
  • Debt Ratio was 0.42 for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, up from 0.42 in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Debt Ratio ranged from a high of 0.42 in Q1 2023 to a low of 0.0 in Q1 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.23 and a median of 0.4 in 2022 define the central range for Debt Ratio.
  • Peak YoY movement for Debt Ratio: surged 4039.6% in 2023, then crashed 99.07% in 2024.
  • Essential Utilities' Debt Ratio stood at 0.01 in 2021, then surged by 40.68% to 0.01 in 2022, then surged by 3127.44% to 0.41 in 2023, then increased by 0.57% to 0.41 in 2024, then grew by 2.12% to 0.42 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Debt Ratio are 0.42 (Q4 2025), 0.42 (Q3 2025), and 0.41 (Q3 2024).