Growth Metrics

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Return on Sales (2018 - 2025)

Historic Return on Sales for Essential Utilities (WTRG) over the last 12 years, with Q3 2025 value amounting to 0.19%.

  • Essential Utilities' Return on Sales rose 300.0% to 0.19% in Q3 2025 from the same period last year, while for Sep 2025 it was 0.22%, marking a year-over-year increase of 200.0%. This contributed to the annual value of 0.22% for FY2024, which is 500.0% up from last year.
  • Latest data reveals that Essential Utilities reported Return on Sales of 0.19% as of Q3 2025, which was up 300.0% from 0.21% recorded in Q2 2025.
  • Essential Utilities' 5-year Return on Sales high stood at 0.43% for Q1 2024, and its period low was 0.05% during Q4 2023.
  • In the last 5 years, Essential Utilities' Return on Sales had a median value of 0.19% in 2025 and averaged 0.19%.
  • Its Return on Sales has fluctuated over the past 5 years, first soared by 1700bps in 2024, then tumbled by -700bps in 2025.
  • Essential Utilities' Return on Sales (Quarter) stood at 0.03% in 2021, then plummeted by -75bps to 0.01% in 2022, then tumbled by -639bps to 0.05% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 256bps to 0.07% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 175bps to 0.19% in 2025.
  • Its last three reported values are 0.19% in Q3 2025, 0.21% for Q2 2025, and 0.36% during Q1 2025.