Growth Metrics

Essential Utilities (WTRG) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed FCF Margin for 9 consecutive years, with 12.01% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, FCF Margin changed N/A to 12.01% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 3.0%, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 16.95%, up 19532.0% from a year prior.
  • FCF Margin was 12.01% for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, down from 3.7% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 151.88% in Q3 2023 to a low of 201.06% in Q4 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 3.05% and a median of 2.01% in 2024 define the central range for FCF Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for FCF Margin: skyrocketed 25940bps in 2022, then plummeted -30012bps in 2023.
  • Essential Utilities' FCF Margin stood at 160.35% in 2021, then surged by 162bps to 99.05% in 2022, then plummeted by -303bps to 201.06% in 2023, then soared by 79bps to 43.09% in 2024, then soared by 72bps to 12.01% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's FCF Margin are 12.01% (Q4 2025), 3.7% (Q1 2025), and 43.09% (Q3 2024).