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FCF Margin for California Water Service Group (CWT)

As of · Reported

Metric

TTM

-22.0%

YoY change

−4.09pp

Trough year (2020)

-22.8%

Peak year (1997)

3.3%

FCF Margin history chart for California Water Service Group (CWT) from 1994 to 2025

Latest: -21.4%

FCF Margin change chart for California Water Service Group (CWT) from 1994 to 2025

Latest: −4.09pp

FCF Margin history table for California Water Service Group (CWT) from 1994 to 2025

  • 2025-21.4%-4.09pp
  • 2024-17.4%+3.53pp
  • 2023-20.9%-10.96pp
  • 2022-9.9%-2.15pp
  • 2021-7.8%+14.98pp
  • 2020-22.8%-8.06pp
  • 2019-14.7%-1.42pp
  • 2018-13.3%+3.42pp
  • 2017-16.7%-5.33pp
  • 2016-11.4%-5.89pp
  • 2015-5.5%-4.82pp
  • 2014-0.6%-0.85pp
  • 20130.2%-0.55pp
  • 20120.8%+2.21pp
  • 2011-1.4%+9.07pp
  • 2010-10.5%-2.02pp
  • 2009-8.5%-5.55pp
  • 2008-2.9%+11.03pp
  • 2007-14.0%+2.00pp
  • 2006-16.0%-13.39pp
  • 2005-2.6%+1.60pp
  • 2004-4.2%+6.59pp
  • 2003-10.8%+10.12pp
  • 2002-20.9%-11.37pp
  • 2001-9.5%-8.47pp
  • 2000-1.0%-0.16pp
  • 1999-0.9%-2.43pp
  • 19981.6%-1.77pp
  • 19973.3%+4.70pp
  • 1996-1.4%-2.88pp
  • 19951.5%+3.29pp
  • 1994-1.8%—

FCF Margin values are taken from California Water Service Group's reported income statements (quarterly 10-Q and annual 10-K filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission). Each row shows the period end date and the filing date. YoY compares each figure to the same period one year earlier. Amounts are in USD as filed.

About FCF Margin at California Water Service Group (CWT)

According to California Water Service Group's latest reported financial statements, the company's latest reported free cash flow margin is -22.0%. Free cash flow margin is free cash flow divided by revenue — the share of each sales dollar that converts into cash after capital expenditures. Because free cash flow cannot be inflated by non-cash accounting, FCF margin is a clean read on how efficiently a business turns revenue into deployable cash.

Headline figure above is from the reporting period ending (reported ). Chart and table below cover the full reported history back to .

In 2025, California Water Service Group (CWT) free cash flow margin totalled -21.44% – contracted 4.1 percentage points year-over-year.

Across the available history, free cash flow margin reached its high of 3.33% in 1997 and its low of -22.75% in 2020.

California Water Service Group FCF Margin by Year

California Water Service Group FCF Margin 2025: -21.4%

California Water Service Group posted free cash flow margin of -21.44% in 2025, contracted 4.1 percentage points from 2024.

California Water Service Group FCF Margin 2024: -17.4%

In 2024, California Water Service Group reported free cash flow margin of -17.35%, expanded 3.5 percentage points from 2023.

California Water Service Group FCF Margin 2023: -20.9%

California Water Service Group free cash flow margin in 2023 was -20.88%, contracted 11.0 percentage points from 2022.

California Water Service Group FCF Margin 2022: -9.9%

2022's free cash flow margin for California Water Service Group came in at -9.92%, contracted 2.1 percentage points from 2021.

California Water Service Group FCF Margin 2021: -7.8%

California Water Service Group free cash flow margin in 2021 was -7.77%.

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