WTRG (Essential Utilities) 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate : 7.00% (As of Sep. 2024)

Competitive Comparison of Essential Utilities's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate

For the Utilities - Regulated Water subindustry, Essential Utilities's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate data, can be viewed below:

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Essential Utilities's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Essential Utilities's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

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Essential Utilities 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate Calculation

This is the average annual rate that a company has been raising its dividends. The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

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Essential Utilities  (NYSE:WTRG) 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate Explanation

1. Dividend Payout Ratio measures the percentage of the company's earnings paid out as dividends.

Essential Utilities's Dividend Payout Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Essential Utilities was 0.90. The lowest was 0.54. And the median was 0.65.

Warning Sign:

If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Essential Utilities Inc is 0.74, which seems too high.

2. Dividend Yield % measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Essential Utilities Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.

Essential Utilities's Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Current Share Price is $38.69.
Essential Utilities's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $1.2652.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Essential Utilities was 3.55%. The lowest was 1.69%. And the median was 2.30%.

Good Sign:

Essential Utilities Inc stock dividend yield is close to 10-year high.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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