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Essential Utilities (WTRG) FCF Payout Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed FCF Payout Ratio for 13 consecutive years, with 1.07 as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, FCF Payout Ratio changed N/A to 1.07 in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 4.71, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.89, down 263.35% from a year prior.
  • FCF Payout Ratio was 1.07 for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, down from 3.09 in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Payout Ratio ranged from a high of 3.09 in Q1 2025 to a low of 6.83 in Q1 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.39 and a median of 0.09 in 2023 define the central range for FCF Payout Ratio.
  • Peak YoY movement for FCF Payout Ratio: surged 236.52% in 2022, then tumbled 1523.0% in 2024.
  • Essential Utilities' FCF Payout Ratio stood at 0.08 in 2021, then soared by 236.52% to 0.11 in 2022, then plummeted by 180.78% to 0.09 in 2023, then crashed by 445.78% to 0.47 in 2024, then plummeted by 124.52% to 1.07 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's FCF Payout Ratio are 1.07 (Q4 2025), 3.09 (Q1 2025), and 0.47 (Q3 2024).