Growth Metrics

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Share-based Compensation (2016 - 2025)

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Share-based Compensation for 13 consecutive years, with $20.6 million as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Share-based Compensation changed N/A to $20.6 million in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was $27.5 million, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at $26.0 million, up 4.17% from a year prior.
  • Share-based Compensation was $20.6 million for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, up from $2.6 million in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Share-based Compensation ranged from a high of $20.6 million in Q4 2025 to a low of $1.1 million in Q1 2024.
  • A 5-year average of $4.2 million and a median of $2.7 million in 2021 define the central range for Share-based Compensation.
  • Peak YoY movement for Share-based Compensation: skyrocketed 427.44% in 2021, then crashed 68.99% in 2024.
  • Essential Utilities' Share-based Compensation stood at $12.2 million in 2021, then crashed by 66.94% to $4.0 million in 2022, then plummeted by 40.77% to $2.4 million in 2023, then plummeted by 35.76% to $1.5 million in 2024, then soared by 1239.21% to $20.6 million in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Share-based Compensation are $20.6 million (Q4 2025), $2.6 million (Q1 2025), and $1.5 million (Q3 2024).