Essential Utilities (WTRG)

• Market cap: $10.4B
• 1 day: -0.51%
• 5 days: -3.69%
• 1 month: -5.56%
• 3 months: -0.86%
• 6 months: -5.42%
• Year to date: 2.72%
• 1 year: -3.39%
• 5 years: -5.83%
• 10 years: 41.84%
• Sector: Utilities
• Industry: Water Utilities

About: Essential Utilities is a Pennsylvania-based holding company for US water, wastewater, and natural gas distribution utilities. The company's water business serves 3 million people in eight states. Its largest service territory is in Pennsylvania, primarily suburban Philadelphia. Its Peoples subsidiary serves more than 740,000 gas distribution customers in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. It completed the sale of its West Virginia gas utility and the bulk of its nonregulated assets in 2024.

Employees: 3,291

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

156% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $14.5M | Put options by funds: $5.67M

39% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 277 | Existing positions reduced: 199

20% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 77 | Existing positions closed: 64

0% more funds holding

Funds holding: 671 [Q1] → 671 (+0) [Q2]

1.47% less ownership

Funds ownership: 79.91% [Q1] → 78.44% (-1.47%) [Q2]

6% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $8.7B [Q1] → $8.17B (-$531M) [Q2]

50% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q1] → 1 (-1) [Q2]

Research analyst outlook

2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $47
• Avg. target: $47
• High target: $47

2 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 100%
• neutral: 0 0%
• negative: 0 0%

UBS Gregg Orrill	$47	Buy Maintained	15 Aug 2025
Baird Ben Kallo	$47	Outperform Maintained	4 Aug 2025