Growth Metrics

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

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Equity Ratio for 13 consecutive years, with 0.35 as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Equity Ratio changed N/A to 0.35 in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.35, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.35, changed N/A from a year prior.
  • Equity Ratio was 0.35 for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, down from 0.36 in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Equity Ratio ranged from a high of 0.36 in Q2 2025 to a low of 0.34 in Q4 2022.
  • A 5-year average of 0.35 and a median of 0.35 in 2025 define the central range for Equity Ratio.
  • Peak YoY movement for Equity Ratio: grew 4.11% in 2021, then fell 3.28% in 2022.
  • Essential Utilities' Equity Ratio stood at 0.35 in 2021, then dropped by 3.28% to 0.34 in 2022, then rose by 2.34% to 0.35 in 2023, then increased by 0.51% to 0.35 in 2024, then grew by 0.11% to 0.35 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Equity Ratio are 0.35 (Q4 2025), 0.36 (Q3 2025), and 0.36 (Q2 2025).