Essential Utilities (WTRG) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)
Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Operating Margin for 9 consecutive years, with 43.94% as the latest value for Q4 2025.
- On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin changed N/A to 43.94% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 10.36%, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 5.26%, up 25853.0% from a year prior.
- Operating Margin was 43.94% for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, down from 35.98% in the prior quarter.
- In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 43.25% in Q1 2025 to a low of 198.9% in Q2 2024.
- A 5-year average of 16.04% and a median of 32.56% in 2022 define the central range for Operating Margin.
- Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: crashed -23445bps in 2024, then skyrocketed 23488bps in 2025.
- Essential Utilities' Operating Margin stood at 26.06% in 2021, then fell by -8bps to 24.09% in 2022, then surged by 51bps to 36.29% in 2023, then fell by -2bps to 35.63% in 2024, then plummeted by -223bps to 43.94% in 2025.
- Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Operating Margin are 43.94% (Q4 2025), 35.98% (Q2 2025), and 43.25% (Q1 2025).