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Essential Utilities (WTRG) Free Cash Flow (2016 - 2025)

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Free Cash Flow for 13 consecutive years, with -$109.5 million as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Free Cash Flow changed N/A to -$109.5 million in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was -$80.6 million, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at -$419.5 million, down 166.07% from a year prior.
  • Free Cash Flow was -$109.5 million for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, down from $29.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Free Cash Flow ranged from a high of $698.7 million in Q4 2022 to a low of -$963.9 million in Q4 2023.
  • A 5-year average of -$31.4 million and a median of -$84.1 million in 2023 define the central range for Free Cash Flow.
  • Biggest YoY gain for Free Cash Flow was 886.06% in 2021; the steepest drop was 605.8% in 2021.
  • Essential Utilities' Free Cash Flow stood at -$859.0 million in 2021, then skyrocketed by 181.34% to $698.7 million in 2022, then crashed by 237.96% to -$963.9 million in 2023, then surged by 80.54% to -$187.5 million in 2024, then soared by 41.6% to -$109.5 million in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Free Cash Flow are -$109.5 million (Q4 2025), $29.0 million (Q1 2025), and -$187.5 million (Q3 2024).