Growth Metrics

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

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Net Margin for 9 consecutive years, with 43.54% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Net Margin changed N/A to 43.54% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.3%, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 5.12%, up 15657.0% from a year prior.
  • Net Margin was 43.54% for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, down from 20.48% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Net Margin ranged from a high of 43.42% in Q1 2024 to a low of 103.2% in Q2 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 10.73% and a median of 19.82% in 2023 define the central range for Net Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for Net Margin: crashed -12410bps in 2024, then soared 12369bps in 2025.
  • Essential Utilities' Net Margin stood at 20.16% in 2021, then plummeted by -35bps to 13.03% in 2022, then crashed by -135bps to 4.52% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 453bps to 15.95% in 2024, then crashed by -373bps to 43.54% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Net Margin are 43.54% (Q4 2025), 20.48% (Q2 2025), and 36.21% (Q1 2025).