Essential Utilities WTRG Earnings yield
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Essential Utilities’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Essential Utilities’s 10-Q, filed May 7, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Essential Utilities's earnings yield?
- Essential Utilities (WTRG) reported earnings yield of 4.9% in Q1 2026.
- How has Essential Utilities's earnings yield changed year-over-year?
- Essential Utilities's earnings yield decreased by 13.3% year-over-year, from 5.6% to 4.9%.
- What is the long-term trend for Essential Utilities's earnings yield?
- Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Essential Utilities's earnings yield has grown at a 19.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 2.4% to 5.7%.
- What does earnings yield mean?
- The company's annual profit as a percentage of its market price — the flip side of the P/E.
- How do you interpret earnings yield?
- Higher means more earnings per dollar invested. Easy to compare directly against bond yields to judge the relative attractiveness of equity.
- How does earnings yield compare across companies?
- Comparable across profitable companies and against fixed-income yields; undefined when earnings are negative.