Essential Utilities dividend and valuation
$38.64Change from previous close: −0.44%Absolute change: −$0.17
Valuation
Essential Utilities paid $1.39 per share in dividends over the last 12 months (yield 3.6%). Last ex-dividend date: August 11, 2026. The P/E ratio is 19.8. The average price target of 5 analysts is $42.20.
Data as of October 7, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $11.01B
- Enterprise value
- $19.54B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 19.8
- Forward P/E
- 16.3
- PEG
- 3.45
- Price/book
- 1.57
- Price/sales
- 4.29
- EV/EBITDA
- 14.5
- EV/revenue
- 7.61
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 56.4%
- Operating margin
- 35.4%
- Net margin
- 21.6%
- ROE
- 8.1%
- ROA
- 3.0%
- ROIC
- 3.8%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 3.1%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- -2.6%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $8.63M
- Total debt
- $8.54B
- Debt/equity
- 1.22
- Current ratio
- 0.78
- Quick ratio
- 0.53
- Piotroski F-Score
- 6.00
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $1.39
- Dividend yield
- 3.6%
- Payout ratio
- 70.9%
- Ex-dividend date
- August 11, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $42.20
- Median price target
- $41.00
- High price target
- $49.00
- Low price target
- $38.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 5
- Consensus
- Hold
- Forward EPS
- $2.38
- EPS estimate, current year
- $2.22
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.62
- Average volume
- 2.22M
- Shares outstanding
- 283.78M
- Float
- 282.84M
- Institutional ownership
- 82.0%
- Insider ownership
- 0.2%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 3.1%
- Short ratio (days)
- 3.24