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FCF Margin for Essential Utilities (WTRG)

As of · Reported

Metric

TTM

-19.9%

YoY change

+9.86pp

Trough year (2024)

-26.8%

Peak year (2013)

7.8%

FCF Margin history chart for Essential Utilities (WTRG) from 1994 to 2025

Latest: -17.0%

FCF Margin change chart for Essential Utilities (WTRG) from 1994 to 2025

Latest: +9.86pp

FCF Margin history table for Essential Utilities (WTRG) from 1994 to 2025

  • 2025-17.0%+9.86pp
  • 2024-26.8%-13.89pp
  • 2023-12.9%+7.28pp
  • 2022-20.2%-0.20pp
  • 2021-20.0%+2.39pp
  • 2020-22.4%+1.40pp
  • 2019-23.8%-8.62pp
  • 2018-15.2%-3.23pp
  • 2017-12.0%-13.51pp
  • 20161.6%+0.81pp
  • 20150.7%-3.76pp
  • 20144.5%-3.25pp
  • 20137.8%+5.07pp
  • 20122.7%-2.40pp
  • 20115.1%+14.93pp
  • 2010-9.8%-5.60pp
  • 2009-4.2%+3.09pp
  • 2008-7.3%-0.02pp
  • 2007-7.3%+11.63pp
  • 2006-18.9%-11.32pp
  • 2005-7.6%-2.60pp
  • 2004-5.0%+0.42pp
  • 2003-5.4%-0.90pp
  • 2002-4.5%+2.60pp
  • 2001-7.1%+8.39pp
  • 2000-15.5%-6.85pp
  • 1999-8.7%-6.22pp
  • 1998-2.5%-4.51pp
  • 19972.1%-3.01pp
  • 19965.1%+5.40pp
  • 1995-0.3%-2.00pp
  • 19941.7%—

FCF Margin values are taken from Essential Utilities'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 Essential Utilities (WTRG)

According to Essential Utilities's latest reported financial statements, the company's latest reported free cash flow margin is -19.9%. 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 .

The 2025 reading of Essential Utilities (WTRG) free cash flow margin is -16.95% – expanded 9.9 percentage points year-over-year.

Across the available history, free cash flow margin reached its high of 7.76% in 2013 and its low of -26.82% in 2024.

Essential Utilities FCF Margin by Year

Essential Utilities FCF Margin 2025: -17.0%

2025's free cash flow margin for Essential Utilities came in at -16.95%, expanded 9.9 percentage points from 2024.

Essential Utilities FCF Margin 2024: -26.8%

Essential Utilities posted free cash flow margin of -26.82% in 2024, contracted 13.9 percentage points from 2023. This figure represents the lowest annual value in the available history.

Essential Utilities FCF Margin 2023: -12.9%

In 2023, Essential Utilities reported free cash flow margin of -12.93%, expanded 7.3 percentage points from 2022.

Essential Utilities FCF Margin 2022: -20.2%

Essential Utilities free cash flow margin in 2022 was -20.21%, contracted 0.2 percentage points from 2021.

Essential Utilities FCF Margin 2021: -20.0%

Essential Utilities free cash flow margin in 2021 was -20.01%.

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