WTRG (Essential Utilities) Cash And Cash Equivalents : $21 Mil (As of Mar. 2025)

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What is Essential Utilities Cash And Cash Equivalents?

Essential Utilities's quarterly cash and cash equivalents increased from Sep. 2024 ($8.44 Mil) to Dec. 2024 ($9.16 Mil) and increased from Dec. 2024 ($9.16 Mil) to Mar. 2025 ($20.78 Mil).

Essential Utilities's annual cash and cash equivalents declined from Dec. 2022 ($11.40 Mil) to Dec. 2023 ($4.61 Mil) but then increased from Dec. 2023 ($4.61 Mil) to Dec. 2024 ($9.16 Mil).

Essential Utilities Cash And Cash Equivalents Historical Data

The historical data trend for Essential Utilities's Cash And Cash Equivalents can be seen below:

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Essential Utilities Cash And Cash Equivalents Chart

Essential Utilities Annual Data

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Cash And Cash Equivalents

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4.83

10.57

11.40

4.61

9.16

Essential Utilities Quarterly Data
	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23	Mar24	Jun24	Sep24	Dec24	Mar25
Cash And Cash Equivalents	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															35.20	18.82	8.44	9.16	20.78

Essential Utilities Cash And Cash Equivalents Calculation

Cash and cash equivalents are the most liquid assets on the balance sheet. Cash equivalents are assets that are readily convertible into cash, such as money market holdings, short-term government bonds or Treasury bills, marketable securities and commercial paper.

Essential Utilities (NYSE:WTRG) Cash And Cash Equivalents Explanation

A high number means either:

1) The company has competitive advantage generating lots of cash

2) Just sold a business or bonds (not necessarily good)

A low stockpile of cash usually means poor to mediocre economics.

There are 3 ways to create large cash reserve.

1) Sell new bonds or equity to public

2) Sell business or asset

3) It has an ongoing business generating more cash than it burns (usually means durable competitive advantage)

When a company is suffering a short term problem, Buffett looks at cash or marketable securities to see whether it has the financial strength to ride it out.

Important: Lots of cash and marketable securities + little debt = good chance that the business will sail on through tough times.

Test to see what is creating cash by looking at past 7 yrs of balance sheets. This will reveal how the cash was created.

Be Aware

Depreciation estimates make the calculation of net income susceptible to management's accounting choices. These choices can be either overly aggressive or overly conservative.

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Essential Utilities Business Description

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Address

762 W. Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA, 19010-3489

Website

https://www.essential.co

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.

Executives

Chris Franklin	officer: Aqua America Southern Oper	762 W.LANCASTER AVE, BRYN MAWR PA 19010
Robert A Rubin	officer: Chief Accounting Officer	762 W LANCASTER AVE, BRYN MAWR PA 19010
Elizabeth B Amato	director	UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, 10 FARM SPRINGS ROAD, FARMINGTON CT 06032
Roderick K West	director	1600 PERDIDO STREET, BLDG 505, NEW ORLEANS LA 70112
Arnold Colleen	officer: President	762 W. LANCASTER AVENUE, BRYN MAWR PA 19010
Michael Huwar	officer: President	762 W. LANCASTER AVENUE, BRYN MAWR PA 19010
Ellen T Ruff	director	762, W LANCASTER AVE, BRYN MAWR PA 19010
Wilbert Bryan Lewis	director	762 W. LANCASTER AVENUE, BRYN MAWR PA 19010
Daniel Schuller	officer: Executive Vice President	40 SACHEM ROAD, GREENWICH CT 06830
David Alan Ciesinski	director	H. J. HEINZ COMPANY, P.O. BOX 57, PITTSBURGH PA 15230
Edwina Kelly	director	510 MADISON AVENUE, 15FL, NEW YORK NY 10022
Richard Scott Fox	officer: Chief Operating Officer	14812 BALLANTYNE COUNTRY CLUB DRIVE, CHARLOTTE NC 28277
Matthew Rhodes	officer: EVP, Strategy & Corp Dev	762 LANCASTER AVE, BRYN MAWR PA 19010
Wendy Franks	director	ONE QUEEN STREET EAST, SUITE 2500, TORONTO A6 M5C 2W5
Hilferty Daniel J Iii	director	C/O FS INVESTMENT CORPORATION III, CIRA CENTRE, 2929 ARCH STREET, SUITE 675, PHILADELPHIA PA 19104