Essential Utilities (Essential Utilities) COGS-to-Revenue : 0.41 (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Essential Utilities COGS-to-Revenue?

Essential Utilities's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $194 Mil. Its Revenue for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $479 Mil.

Essential Utilities's COGS to Revenue for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.41.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Essential Utilities's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was 59.44%.

Essential Utilities COGS-to-Revenue Historical Data

The historical data trend for Essential Utilities's COGS-to-Revenue can be seen below:

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Essential Utilities COGS-to-Revenue Chart

Essential Utilities Annual Data

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COGS-to-Revenue

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0.37

0.47

0.53

0.45

Essential Utilities Quarterly Data
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COGS-to-Revenue	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.61	0.54	0.40	0.40	0.41

Essential Utilities COGS-to-Revenue Calculation

Essential Utilities's COGS to Revenue for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	927.824	/	2053.824
	=	0.45

Essential Utilities's COGS to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	194.466	/	479.419
	=	0.41

Essential Utilities (NYSE:WTRG) COGS-to-Revenue Explanation

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin.

Essential Utilities's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	1	-	COGS to Revenue
	=	1	-	Cost of Goods Sold / Revenue
	=	1	-	194.466 / 479.419
	=	59.44 %

A company that has a moat can usually maintain or even expand their Gross Margin. A company can increase its Gross Margin in two ways. It can increase the prices of the goods it sells and keeps its Cost of Goods Sold unchanged. Or it can keep the sales price unchanged and squeeze its suppliers to reduce the Cost of Goods Sold. Warren Buffett believes businesses with the power to raise prices have moats.

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Essential Utilities (Essential Utilities) Business Description

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Address

762 West Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA, 19010-3489

Website

https://www.essential.co

Essential Utilities is a Pennsylvania-based holding company for U.S. water, wastewater, and natural gas distribution utilities. The company's water business serves 3 million people in eight states. Nearly three fourths of its water earnings come from Pennsylvania, primarily suburban Philadelphia. Its Peoples subsidiary serves more than 700,000 gas distribution customers in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Essential exited its noncore competitive water and energy services businesses.

Executives

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
Chris Franklin	officer: Aqua America Southern Oper	762 W.LANCASTER AVE, 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
Robert A Rubin	officer: Chief Accounting Officer	762 W LANCASTER AVE, 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
Christopher Paul Luning	officer: Sr. VP, General Counsel & Sec	762 W. LANCASTER AVE, BRYN MAWR PA 19010