Growth Metrics

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Deferred Taxes (2016 - 2025)

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Deferred Taxes for 13 consecutive years, with -$48000.0 as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Deferred Taxes changed N/A to -$48000.0 in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was -$4.8 million, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at $1.5 million, up 105.48% from a year prior.
  • Deferred Taxes was -$48000.0 for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, up from -$18.6 million in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Deferred Taxes ranged from a high of $19.3 million in Q1 2021 to a low of -$39.3 million in Q4 2023.
  • A 5-year average of -$6.9 million and a median of -$5.8 million in 2023 define the central range for Deferred Taxes.
  • Peak YoY movement for Deferred Taxes: surged 2202.7% in 2022, then plummeted 673.82% in 2023.
  • Essential Utilities' Deferred Taxes stood at -$9.6 million in 2021, then decreased by 6.68% to -$10.3 million in 2022, then plummeted by 283.42% to -$39.3 million in 2023, then surged by 135.55% to $14.0 million in 2024, then tumbled by 100.34% to -$48000.0 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Deferred Taxes are -$48000.0 (Q4 2025), -$18.6 million (Q1 2025), and $14.0 million (Q3 2024).