Essential Utilities WTRG Price / book
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Essential Utilities’s reported figures.
Based on the most recent quarter.
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 price / book?
- Essential Utilities (WTRG) reported price / book of 1.7× in Q1 2026.
- How has Essential Utilities's price / book changed year-over-year?
- Essential Utilities's price / book decreased by 1.8% year-over-year, from 1.7× to 1.7×.
- What is the long-term trend for Essential Utilities's price / book?
- Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Essential Utilities's price / book has grown at a -9.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 2.6× to 1.6×.
- What does price / book mean?
- How the market price compares to the company's accounting net worth.
- How do you interpret price / book?
- Below 1.0 can flag a market discount to book value (common for distressed or asset-heavy firms); high values reflect intangible value the balance sheet doesn't capture. Most informative for financials and asset-heavy businesses.
- How does price / book compare across companies?
- A core valuation gauge for banks and insurers; weak for asset-light firms where book value understates economic value.