Growth Metrics

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Operating Income (2016 - 2025)

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Operating Income for 9 consecutive years, with -$400.9 million as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Income changed N/A to -$400.9 million in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was $278.4 million, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at $130.2 million, down 82.82% from a year prior.
  • Operating Income was -$400.9 million for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, down from $185.3 million in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Income ranged from a high of $338.9 million in Q1 2025 to a low of -$400.9 million in Q4 2025.
  • A 5-year average of $145.0 million and a median of $155.2 million in 2023 define the central range for Operating Income.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Income: surged 216.14% in 2021, then decreased 6.42% in 2024.
  • Essential Utilities' Operating Income stood at $139.6 million in 2021, then rose by 21.77% to $170.0 million in 2022, then grew by 2.36% to $174.0 million in 2023, then dropped by 10.85% to $155.1 million in 2024, then tumbled by 358.48% to -$400.9 million in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Operating Income are -$400.9 million (Q4 2025), $185.3 million (Q2 2025), and $338.9 million (Q1 2025).