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

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Gross Margin for 9 consecutive years, with 76.35% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Gross Margin changed N/A to 76.35% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 78.44%, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 74.15%, changed N/A from a year prior.
  • Gross Margin was 76.35% for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, down from 82.41% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Gross Margin ranged from a high of 82.41% in Q1 2025 to a low of 61.49% in Q3 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 72.0% and a median of 70.15% in 2021 define the central range for Gross Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for Gross Margin: skyrocketed 2029bps in 2021, then tumbled -656bps in 2023.
  • Essential Utilities' Gross Margin stood at 70.39% in 2021, then grew by 5bps to 73.81% in 2022, then fell by -9bps to 67.25% in 2023, then decreased by -1bps to 66.83% in 2024, then rose by 14bps to 76.35% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Gross Margin are 76.35% (Q4 2025), 82.41% (Q1 2025), and 66.83% (Q3 2024).