WTRGEssential Utilities, Inc.
Is it growing?
Growth is fading: earnings down −16% year on year and operating margin narrowing (−3.0 points).
Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +7% a year.
Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing slower than revenue, so the growth is costing something.
Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 35.1% now against 38.1% a year earlier.
All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 30, 2026.
Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.
Is WTRG growing?
Essential Utilities, Inc. has grown revenue 3.7% a year over three years and 7.3% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 3.6%.
Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Utilities - Regulated Water median +6.7% · growing slowly · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue
- Revenue growth, 5-year rate
- +7.3%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +3.7% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
- Earnings per share, 3-year rate
- +3.6%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +3.7% · earnings lagged revenue: the growth is costing something
- Years of annual history on file
- 19
Years of annual history on file · FY2007 to FY2025, as filed
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- Revenue FY2021
- $1.88B
- Revenue FY2022
- $2.29B
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.05B
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.09B
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.47B
Annual income statements as filed with the SEC.