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Essential Utilities, Inc. [WTRG] Stock Forecast

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Essential Utilities, Inc. is a US stock, located in Bryn mawr of Pa and trading under the symbol WTRG

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WTRG Stock Summary

Earnings have grown 21.82% per last year.

Earnings are expected to rise 9.39% next year

EPS has been increasing for the past 3 years (Yearly statements)

WTRG's dividend payments are well covered by cash flows with cash payout ratio of 75.16%.

WTRG has less than 1 year of cash runway

Debt-to-Equity ratio of 1.92 is considered moderate, deeper research suggested.

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10:03 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

Essential Utilities to Report Earnings for Q1 2023

BRYN MAWR, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Essential Utilities Inc. (NYSE: WTRG) expects to report earnings for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 following market close on May 8, 2023. The company's conference call with financial analysts will take place on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The call and presentation will be webcast live so interested parties may listen over the internet by logging on to Essential.co and following the link for Investors.

06:34 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

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09:33 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

Essential Utilities shares drop 3% after critical short seller report

Essential Utilities' WTRG, -1.45% stock declined as much as 3% on Wednesday after U.S.-based short seller Spruce Point Capital Management published a report into the utilities firm.

03:16 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

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10:43 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

Essential Utilities, Inc. (WTRG) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Essential Utilities, Inc. (NYSE:WTRG ) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 27, 2023 11:00 AM ET Company Participants Brian Dingerdissen - Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasurer Chris Franklin - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dan Schuller - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Ryan Connors - Northcoast Research Travis Miller - Morningstar Gregg Orrill - UBS Davis Sunderland - Baird Jonathan Reeder - Wells Fargo Operator Good day and welcome to the Essential Utilities Full-Year 2022 Earnings Call. This meeting is being recorded.

01:33 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Q4 Earnings Lag Estimates, Sales Up

Essential Utilities' (WTRG) fourth-quarter earnings are lower than expected. WTRG continues to make acquisitions and investments to strengthen its water and natural gas operations.

09:47 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Q4 Earnings Lag Estimates

Essential Utilities (WTRG) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -2.22% and 26.87%, respectively, for the quarter ended December 2022. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

02:15 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

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08:45 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

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09:47 02 Apr 2023 WTRG

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Unveils 2023 & Long-Term Guidance

Essential Utilities (WTRG) raises its 3-year capital expenditure guidance and reaffirms its willingness to expand water operations through systematic acquisitions.

WTRG Financial details

Company Rating

Strong Buy

Market Cap

11.54B

Income

499.45M

Revenue

2.37B

Book val./share

20.88

Cash/share

0.04

Dividend

1.42

Dividend %

3.24%

Employees

3.21K

Optionable

Shortable

Yes

Earnings

08 May 2023

P/E

22.5

Forward P/E

PEG

15.75

P/S

4.73

P/B

2.09

P/C

1091.25

P/FCF

-19.6

Quick Ratio

0.21

Current Ratio

0.64

Debt / Equity

1.92

LT Debt / Equity

0.01

EPS (TTM)

1.92

EPS next Y

EPS next Q

0.42

EPS this Y

7.74%

EPS next Y

EPS next 5Y

10.42%

EPS last 5Y

10.88%

Revenue last 5Y

22.25%

Revenue Q/Q

62.3%

EPS Q/Q

73.08%

SMA20

-2.97%

SMA50

-12.4%

SMA100

-3.95%

Inst Own

73.35%

Inst Trans

3.42%

ROA

ROE

ROC

0.05%

Gross Margin

34%

Oper. Margin

28%

Profit Margin

21%

Payout

82%

Shs Outstand

264.37M

Shs Float

263.47M

Target Price

53.5

52W Range

38.5-52.62

52W High

-16.06%

52W Low

+14.87%

RSI

55.08

Rel Volume

Avg Volume

1.25M

Volume

1.25M

Perf Week

6.57%

Perf Month

-4.09%

Perf Quarter

7.67%

Perf Half Y

0.32%

Beta

0.780778

Volatility

0.87%, 1.29%

Prev Close

1.42%

Price

43.65

Change

2.13%

WTRG Financial Performance

Yearly Fundamentals Overview

Last date of statement is 2022-12-31

Metric	2018-12-31	2019-12-31	2020-12-31	2021-12-31	2022-12-31
Revenue per share	4.71	4.13	5.86	7.29	8.89
Net income per share	1.08	1.04	1.14	1.68	1.81
Operating cash flow per share	2.07	1.57	2.03	2.5	2.33
Free cash flow per share	-0.72	-0.98	-1.31	-1.46	-1.8
Cash per share	0.02	8.67	0.02	0.04	0.04
Book value per share	11.29	18	18.75	20.13	20.88
Tangible book value per share	11	17.71	9.42	11.02	11.78
Share holders equity per share	11.29	18	18.75	20.13	20.88
Interest debt per share	14.99	14.95	23.86	24.52	1.85
Market cap	6.08B	10.12B	11.81B	13.82B	12.29B
Enterprise value	8.65B	11.35B	17.58B	19.92B	12.52B
P/E ratio	31.68	45.06	41.47	32.03	26.42
Price to sales ratio	7.26	11.37	8.08	7.36	5.37
POCF ratio	16.51	29.89	23.25	21.44	20.47
PFCF ratio	-47.81	-47.78	-36.05	-36.78	-26.58
P/B Ratio	3.03	2.61	2.52	2.67	2.29
PTB ratio	3.03	2.61	2.52	2.67	2.29
EV to sales	10.32	12.75	12.02	10.61	5.47
Enterprise value over EBITDA	20.4	23	24.74	21.47	12.39
EV to operating cash flow	23.46	33.52	34.6	30.9	20.85
EV to free cash flow	-67.97	-53.58	-53.65	-53	-27.06
Earnings yield	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.04
Free cash flow yield	-0.02	-0.02	-0.03	-0.03	-0.04
Debt to equity	2.47	1.41	1.93	1.83	1.92
Debt to assets	0.71	0.59	0.66	0.65	0.66
Net debt to EBITDA	6.05	2.49	8.11	6.57	0.22
Current ratio	0.37	6.31	0.63	0.65	0.64
Interest coverage	3.27	2.71	2.31	2.9	2.78
Income quality	1.92	1.51	1.78	1.49	1.29
Dividend Yield	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0
Payout ratio	0.79	0.84	0.82	0.6	0.04
Sales general and administrative to revenue	0	0	0	0	0
Research and developement to revenue	0	0	0	0	0
Intangibles to total assets	0.01	0.01	0.17	0.16	0.15
Capex to operating cash flow	-1.35	-1.63	-1.64	-1.58	-1.77
Capex to revenue	-0.59	-0.62	-0.57	-0.54	-0.46
Capex to depreciation	-3.38	-3.52	-3.25	-3.43	-3.31
Stock based compensation to revenue	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Graham number	16.56	20.54	21.94	27.56	29.14
ROIC	0.05	0.07	0.03	0.04	0.04
Return on tangible assets	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.03
Graham Net	-27.36	-16.34	-35.16	-35.78	-39.43
Working capital	-251.81M	1.69B	-223.65M	-237.27M	-363.71M
Tangible asset value	1.96B	3.82B	2.35B	2.84B	3.03B
Net current asset value	-4.81B	-3.47B	-8.64B	-9.04B	-9.68B
Invested capital	1.28	0.8	1.23	1.18	0.04
Average receivables	99.91M	104.42M	190.47M	267.12M	233.62M
Average payables	68.25M	76.13M	126.2M	185.21M	215.89M
Average inventory	15.1M	17.11M	38.39M	83.98M	78.08M
Days sales outstanding	44.08	44.15	68.2	50.71	32.91
Days payables outstanding	91.5	82.09	93.3	79.05	0
Days of inventory on hand	18.75	20.14	30.7	44.89	0
Receivables turnover	8.28	8.27	5.35	7.2	11.09
Payables turnover	3.99	4.45	3.91	4.62	0
Inventory turnover	19.47	18.12	11.89	8.13	0
ROE	0.1	0.06	0.06	0.08	0.09
Capex per share	-2.79	-2.55	-3.35	-3.96	-4.13

Quarterly Fundamentals Overview

Last date of statement is 2022-12-31 for Q4

Metric	2021-09-30	2021-12-31	2022-03-31	2022-09-30	2022-12-31
Revenue per share	1.4	2.05	2.67	1.66	2.74
Net income per share	0.2	0.45	0.76	0.26	0.45
Operating cash flow per share	0.58	0.32	1.19	0.39	0.32
Free cash flow per share	-0.47	-1	0.49	-0.73	-1.02
Cash per share	0.04	0.04	0.22	0.09	0.04
Book value per share	19.82	19.81	20.06	20.38	20.88
Tangible book value per share	10.75	10.84	11.1	11.43	11.78
Share holders equity per share	19.82	19.81	20.06	20.38	20.88
Interest debt per share	22.54	23.53	23.6	25.38	1.19
Market cap	11.92B	14.05B	13.39B	10.85B	12.29B
Enterprise value	17.69B	20.15B	19.46B	17.42B	12.52B
P/E ratio	59.03	30.16	16.79	39.52	26.73
Price to sales ratio	32.95	26.23	19.15	24.97	17.42
POCF ratio	80.04	169.67	43.12	105.49	151.45
PFCF ratio	-97.5	-53.67	105.23	-56.46	-46.92
P/B Ratio	2.33	2.71	2.55	2.03	2.29
PTB ratio	2.33	2.71	2.55	2.03	2.29
EV to sales	48.9	37.61	27.83	40.08	17.74
Enterprise value over EBITDA	98.9	89.28	61.96	80.41	49.15
EV to operating cash flow	118.76	243.27	62.66	169.37	154.23
EV to free cash flow	-144.67	-76.95	152.91	-90.65	-47.78
Earnings yield	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Free cash flow yield	-0.01	-0.02	0.01	-0.02	-0.02
Debt to equity	1.78	1.83	1.83	1.86	1.92
Debt to assets	0.64	0.65	0.65	0.65	0.66
Net debt to EBITDA	32.25	27.01	19.32	30.33	0.89
Current ratio	0.68	0.65	0.65	0.64	0.64
Interest coverage	1.95	2.64	4.24	2.08	2.47
Income quality	2.95	0.71	1.56	1.5	0.71
Dividend Yield	0.01	0	0.01	0.01	0.02
Payout ratio	1.34	0.58	0.34	1.1	1.71
Sales general and administrative to revenue	0	0	0	0	0
Research and developement to revenue	0	0	0	0	0
Intangibles to total assets	0.16	0.16	0.16	0.15	0.15
Capex to operating cash flow	-1.82	-4.16	-0.59	-2.87	-4.23
Capex to revenue	-0.75	-0.64	-0.26	-0.68	-0.49
Capex to depreciation	-3.64	-4.52	-2.34	-3.57	-4.24
Stock based compensation to revenue	0.01	0.01	0	0.01	0.01
Graham number	9.33	14.08	18.54	10.96	14.48
ROIC	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01
Return on tangible assets	0	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01
Graham Net	-34.44	-35.2	-35.57	-36.79	-39.43
Working capital	-163.53M	-237.27M	-234.66M	-306.79M	-363.71M
Tangible asset value	2.78B	2.84B	2.91B	3B	3.03B
Net current asset value	-8.76B	-9.04B	-9.18B	-9.4B	-9.68B
Invested capital	1.13	1.18	1.17	1.23	0.04
Average receivables	182.38M	216.31M	274.02M	0	204.39M
Average payables	147.83M	178.38M	177.22M	0	228.22M
Average inventory	88.6M	111.69M	84.31M	0	138.15M
Days sales outstanding	42.7	43.84	36.95	41.92	26.32
Days payables outstanding	89.45	58.59	39.26	96.28	0
Days of inventory on hand	62.14	33.27	14.36	101.64	0
Receivables turnover	2.11	2.05	2.44	2.15	3.42
Payables turnover	1.01	1.54	2.29	0.93	0
Inventory turnover	1.45	2.7	6.27	0.89	0
ROE	0.01	0.02	0.04	0.01	0.02
Capex per share	-1.05	-1.32	-0.7	-1.13	-1.33

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WTRG Frequently Asked Questions

What is Essential Utilities, Inc. stock symbol ?

Essential Utilities, Inc. is a US stock , located in Bryn mawr of Pa and trading under the symbol WTRG

Is Essential Utilities, Inc. buy or a sell ?

2 stock analysts have 2 predictions with a medium analyst target price of $53.5. The lowest prediction is $53 and the highest is $54

What is WTRG stock prediction ?

What is Essential Utilities, Inc. stock quote today ?

Essential Utilities, Inc. stock price is $43.65 today.

Is Essential Utilities, Inc. stock public?

Yes, Essential Utilities, Inc. is a publicly traded company.

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Company Profile

Volume Average 1.25M
Market Capitalization 11.54B
Employee 3.21K
CEO Mr. Christopher H. Franklin
Headquarters Bryn Mawr,PA,US
IPO Date 1981-05-22
Website https://www.essential.co

Essential Utilities, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates regulated utilities that provide water, wastewater, or natural gas services in the United States. It offers water services through operating and maintenance contract with municipal authorities and other parties. The company also provides non-utility raw water supply services for firms in the natural gas drilling industry; and water and sewer line protection solutions, and repair services to households through a third-party. It serves approximately 7.5 million residential water, commercial water, fire protection, industrial water, wastewater, and other water and utility customers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, Indiana, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky under the Aqua and Peoples brands. The company was formerly known as Aqua America, Inc. and changed its name to Essential Utilities, Inc. in February 2020. Essential Utilities, Inc. was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.