WTRG Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Essential Utilities | NYSE:WTRG)

Essential Utilities is a Pennsylvania-based holding company for us water, wastewater, and natural gas distribution utilities. The company's water business serves 3 million people in eight states. Its largest service territory is in Pennsylvania, primarily suburban Philadelphia. Its Peoples subsidiary serves more than 740,000 gas distribution customers in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Essential also owns nonregulated market-based water and energy services businesses.

Essential Utilities trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WTRG.

As of February 28, 2025, WTRG stock price climbed to $37.98 with 2,383,885 million shares trading.

WTRG has a market cap of $10.43 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Essential Utilities reported $604 million in Revenue and $.67 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $70 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, WTRG traded as high as $52.62 and as low as $32.07.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that WTRG belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, VB, VBR, VXF.

WTRG has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +12.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +18.8%. In the last 3 month period, WTRG fell short of the market, returning -4.9%, while SPY returned -0.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks WTRG has outperformed the stock market by returning +7.9%, while SPY returned -2.5%.

WTRG support price is $36.99 and resistance is $38.15 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that WTRG shares will trade within this expected range on the day.