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Essential Utilities WTRG Payments To Acquire Buildings

Payments To Acquire Buildings at other companies

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Service Corporation InternationalSCI
$28.16M+216%
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Principal Financial GroupPFG
$33.8M+106%
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WeyerhaeuserWY
$89M+25.4%
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Acuity BrandsAYI
$15.8M+62.9%
CoStar Group logo
CoStar GroupCSGP
$9M-65.4%
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CDWCDW
$11.1M-24.0%

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?
High spending indicates aggressive infrastructure investment, which may lead to future growth but reduces current free cash flow.
How does payments to acquire buildings compare across companies?
A standard component of 'Capital Expenditures' or 'Investing Activities' across all industries.