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Essential Utilities (WTRG) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Return on Sales for 10 consecutive years, with 0.44% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales changed N/A to 0.44% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.0%, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.05%, up 157.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.44% for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, down from 0.21% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.43% in Q1 2024 to a low of 1.03% in Q2 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.11% and a median of 0.2% in 2021 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: tumbled -124bps in 2024, then surged 124bps in 2025.
  • Essential Utilities' Return on Sales stood at 0.2% in 2021, then plummeted by -35bps to 0.13% in 2022, then crashed by -135bps to 0.05% in 2023, then soared by 453bps to 0.16% in 2024, then crashed by -373bps to 0.44% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Return on Sales are 0.44% (Q4 2025), 0.21% (Q3 2025), and 0.2% (Q2 2025).