What is Essential Utilities Peter Lynch Fair Value?
Peter Lynch Fair Value applies to growing companies. The ideal range for the growth rate is between 10 - 20% a year. Peter Lynch thinks that the fair P/E value for a growth company equals its growth rate, that is PEG = 1. The earnings here is trailing twelve month (TTM) earnings. For non-bank companies, the growth rate we use is the average growth rate for EBITDA per share over the past 5 years. For Banks, the growth rate we use is the average growth rate for Book Value per share over the past 5 years. If 5-Year Growth Rate is greater than 25% a year, we use 25. If 5-Year Growth Rate is smaller than 5% a year, we do not calculate Peter Lynch Fair Value.
Here, as of today, Essential Utilities's PEG is 1. Essential Utilities's 5-Year TTM EBITDA Growth Rate is 16.28.
Essential Utilities's EPS without NRI for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.81. Therefore, the Peter Lynch Fair Value for today is $29.45.
The historical rank and industry rank for Essential Utilities's Peter Lynch Fair Value or its related term are showing as below:
WTRG'
s Price-to-Peter-Lynch-Fair-Value Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.23 Med: 1.94 Max: 2.6
Current: 1.24
During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Peter Lynch Fair Value Ratio of Essential Utilities was 2.60. The lowest was 1.23. And the median was 1.94.
WTRG's Price-to-Peter-Lynch-Fair-Value is ranked worse than 59.2% of 201
companies
in the Utilities - Regulated industry
Industry Median: 1.01
vs WTRG: 1.24
Note: Please don't confuse Peter Lynch Fair Value with the value reached in Peter Lynch Chart.
Essential Utilities Peter Lynch Fair Value Historical Data
The historical data trend for Essential Utilities's Peter Lynch Fair Value can be seen below:
* 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.
Competitive Comparison of Essential Utilities's Peter Lynch Fair Value
For the Utilities - Regulated Water subindustry, Essential Utilities's Price-to-Peter-Lynch-Fair-Value, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Peter-Lynch-Fair-Value data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Essential Utilities's Price-to-Peter-Lynch-Fair-Value Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry
For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Essential Utilities's Price-to-Peter-Lynch-Fair-Value distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Essential Utilities's Price-to-Peter-Lynch-Fair-Value falls into.
Essential Utilities Peter Lynch Fair Value Calculation
Essential Utilities's EPS without NRI for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.81.
* 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.
** Please be aware that the 5-Year TTM EBITDA Growth Rate is calculated based on TTM data over the last 5 years. For quarterly reported companies, the TTM data adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months. For companies that report semi-annually, annually, or do not have enough quarterly data, GuruFocus uses the annual data as the TTM data.
If 5-Year Earnings Growth Rate is greater than 25% a year, we use 25.
If 5-Year Earnings Growth Rate is smaller than 5% a year, we do not calculate Peter Lynch Fair Value.
Please note that we use the 5-year average growth rate of EBITDA per share as the growth rate for non-bank companies, as EBITDA growth is subject to less manipulations than net earnings per share. For banks, we use the 5-year average growth rate of Book Value per share as the growth rate. The reason is that EBITDA is not applicable to Banks and Book value is a relative important measurement for Banks. In the calculation, PEG=1 because Peter Lynch thinks that the fair P/E ratio of the growth stock is equal to its earnings growth rate.
Essential Utilities (NYSE:WTRG) Peter Lynch Fair Value Explanation
Peter Lynch Fair Value applies to growing companies. The ideal range for the growth rate is between 10 - 20% a year.
Peter Lynch thinks that the fair P/E value for a growth company equals its growth rate, that is PEG = 1. The earnings here is trailing twelve month (TTM) earnings. For non-bank companies, the growth rate we use is the average growth rate for EBITDA per share over the past 5 years. For Banks, the growth rate we use is the average growth rate for Book Value per share over the past 5 years.
Please don't confuse Peter Lynch Fair Value with the value reached in Peter Lynch Chart. In Peter Lynch chart, a fixed P/E ratio of 15 is used to draw the Earnings Line. Therefore the value reached has a P/E ratio of 15. But in Peter Lynch Fair Value calculation, P/E equals to the growth rate of EBITDA per share over the past 5 years, which is 16.28 instead of 15 in this case.
Essential Utilities's Price to Peter Lynch Fair Value Ratio for today is calculated as
Price to Peter Lynch Fair Value
=
Share Price
/
Peter Lynch Fair Value
=
36.58
/
29.45
=
1.24
* 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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Essential Utilities (Essential Utilities) Business Description
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.
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