Essential Utilities (WTRG) closed at $42.64 on October 27, 2026, down 0.3% from the previous close, on volume of 1,160,509 shares (30-day average 2,397,722).
Data as of October 27, 2026.
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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. It completed the sale of its West Virginia gas utility and the bulk of its nonregulated assets in 2024. Essential shareholders would own a 31% stake in American Water Works if the proposed all-stock merger closes in 2027.
Essential Utilities trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WTRG.
As of October 28, 2026, WTRG stock price declined to $42.48 with 669,139 million shares trading.
WTRG has a beta of -0.61, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. WTRG has a correlation of 0.15 to the broad based SPY ETF.
WTRG has a market cap of $12.03 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Essential Utilities reported $531 million in Revenue and $.37 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-11 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.03.
In the last 3 years, WTRG traded as high as $43.61 and as low as $32.95.
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 +8.0%, while SPY returned +13.6%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in WTRG shares. However, WTRG has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +8.3% and +8.1%, while SPY returned +4.6% and -0.9%, respectively. This indicates WTRG has been having a stronger performance recently.
WTRG support price is $42.07 and resistance is $43.21 (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.
