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Essential Utilities WTRG Payments to Acquire Buildings

Payments to Acquire Buildings at other companies

Essential Utilities logo
Essential UtilitiesWTRG
$269.25M-0.5%
CoStar Group logo
CoStar GroupCSGP
$9M-65.4%
Mid-America Apartment Communities logo
Mid-America Apartment CommunitiesMAA
$28.98M
FBR
Franklin BSP Realty TrustFBRT
$240K-66.0%
Essential Utilities logo
Essential UtilitiesWTRG
$552K+20.5%
American Healthcare REIT logo
American Healthcare REITAHR

Segments

By segment

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Water$178.18M+14.4%
Natural Gas$91.07M-20.7%

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$861.8M+10.0%
Operating income$310.6M-8.3%
Net income$224.4M-20.9%
EPS (diluted)$0.79-23.3%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$75.9M+265%
Total debt$8.4B+9.3%
Total equity$6.9B+6.7%
Total assets$19.8B+7.9%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$265.4M-11.4%
CapEx$137.7M+25.3%
Free cash flow$127.7M-32.6%

Valuation

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Market cap$10.41B+4.7%
Enterprise value$18.74B+6.3%
P/E18.7×+2.5×
P/S4.1×-0.3×

Profitability

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Operating margin35%-3.4pp
Net margin21.8%-5.3pp
FCF margin31.5%+1.6pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity8.3%-1.4pp
Debt / equity1.2×0.0×
Current ratio+0.3×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by Essential Utilities in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireBuildings.

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 payments to acquire buildings?
Essential Utilities (WTRG) reported payments to acquire buildings of $269.25M in Q1 2026.
How has Essential Utilities's payments to acquire buildings changed year-over-year?
Essential Utilities's payments to acquire buildings decreased by 0.5% year-over-year, from $270.54M to $269.25M.
What is the long-term trend for Essential Utilities's payments to acquire buildings?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Essential Utilities's payments to acquire buildings has grown at a 8.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from $1.02B to $1.43B.
What does payments to acquire buildings mean?
Cash spent on buying or building physical facilities and properties.
How do you interpret payments to acquire buildings?
Higher spending indicates aggressive expansion or significant maintenance of physical assets, while lower spending may indicate a period of reduced capital investment.
How does payments to acquire buildings compare across companies?
Standard capital expenditure metric used to track asset base growth across capital-intensive industries.