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Essential Utilities (Essential Utilities) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow : N/A (As of Apr. 30, 2024)


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What is Essential Utilities Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow?

As of today (2024-04-30), Essential Utilities's share price is $36.58. Essential Utilities's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.97. Hence, Essential Utilities's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio for today is N/A.

The historical rank and industry rank for Essential Utilities's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow or its related term are showing as below:

During the past 13 years, Essential Utilities's highest Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio was 932.94. The lowest was 49.68. And the median was 135.56.

WTRG's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is not ranked *
in the Utilities - Regulated industry.
Industry Median: 11.56
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow only.

Essential Utilities's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.72. Its Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in was $-0.97.

During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 8.30% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -10.60% per year.

During the past 13 years, Essential Utilities's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 35.20% per year. The lowest was -80.50% per year. And the median was -21.50% per year.


Essential Utilities Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Essential Utilities's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow 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.

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Essential Utilities Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Essential Utilities's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow

For the Utilities - Regulated Water subindustry, Essential Utilities's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow 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-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Essential Utilities's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Essential Utilities's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.



Essential Utilities Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation

Essential Utilities's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow ratio for today is calculated as

Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio=Share Price/ Free Cash Flow per Share (TTM)
=36.58/-0.974
=N/A

Essential Utilities's Share Price of today is $36.58.
Essential Utilities's Free Cash Flow per Share 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 $-0.97.

* 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.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio=Market Cap/Free Cash Flow

Essential Utilities  (NYSE:WTRG) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Explanation

Free Cash Flow is considered more important than earnings by value investors. The reason is because, in principle, only the net cash that can be taken from the business belongs to shareholders. This Free Cash Flow can be used to grow the business, reduce debt or return to shareholders in dividends or share buybacks.

In a DCF Calculation Free Cash Flow is used to determine the intrinsic value of companies.


Be Aware

In real business, Free Cash Flow can be affected by the change in accounts receivable, accounts payable, management's decision on expansion, etc. Therefore, investors should look at the Free Cash Flow over the longer term. Long-term average of Free Cash Flow is a more reliable indicator for real free cash flow.


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Essential Utilities (Essential Utilities) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
762 West Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA, 19010-3489
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