Growth Metrics

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Debt Ratio (2018 - 2025)

Historic Debt Ratio for Essential Utilities (WTRG) over the last 12 years, with Q3 2025 value amounting to 0.42.

  • Essential Utilities' Debt Ratio rose 89.07% to 0.42 in Q3 2025 from the same period last year, while for Sep 2025 it was 0.42, marking a year-over-year increase of 89.07%. This contributed to the annual value of 0.42 for FY2024, which is 178.93% up from last year.
  • Per Essential Utilities' latest filing, its Debt Ratio stood at 0.42 for Q3 2025, which was up 89.07% from 0.42 recorded in Q2 2025.
  • In the past 5 years, Essential Utilities' Debt Ratio ranged from a high of 0.42 in Q2 2023 and a low of 0.4 during Q3 2021
  • Its 5-year average for Debt Ratio is 0.41, with a median of 0.41 in 2022.
  • Its Debt Ratio has fluctuated over the past 5 years, first surged by 940.41% in 2021, then tumbled by 391.46% in 2024.
  • Quarter analysis of 5 years shows Essential Utilities' Debt Ratio stood at 0.41 in 2021, then rose by 3.76% to 0.42 in 2022, then decreased by 2.14% to 0.41 in 2023, then rose by 1.79% to 0.42 in 2024, then fell by 0.56% to 0.42 in 2025.
  • Its last three reported values are 0.42 in Q3 2025, 0.42 for Q2 2025, and 0.42 during Q1 2025.