Essential Utilities (Essential Utilities) Risk Assessment

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What is Essential Utilities Risk Assessment?

Risk Assessment represents the investment risk of a stock derived from our exclusive method. It suggests how risky the investment opportunity is based on the valuation and the fundamental performance of the stock. It is derived from following key aspects:

1. GuruFocus internally developed valuations of the stock, such as GF valuation.
2. Quality Rank, a business quality indicator developed by GuruFocus.
3. Fundamental performance: Piotroski F-Score, Altman Z-Score, Beneish M-Score, etc.
4. Growth opportunities: 5-year revenue growth rate, 5-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate, etc.

Value investors are always willing to find undervalued stocks. However, not all the undervalued stocks are good deals, we should also be careful of how risky the investment opportunity is. We believe that if the company's financial strength and profitability are strong, and the stock price is within a reasonable range of the GF valuation, or stock has a high return with its price being undervalued, then it might be a good investment opportunity with low risk.

Based on those aspects listed above, GuruFocus believes the risk assessment of Essential Utilities is: Moderate Risk: Sensitive, better choose undervalued stock.

Competitive Comparison of Essential Utilities's Risk Assessment

For the Utilities - Regulated Water subindustry, Essential Utilities's Risk Assessment, along with its competitors' market caps and Risk Assessment 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 Risk Assessment Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Essential Utilities's Risk Assessment distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Essential Utilities's Risk Assessment falls into.

Essential Utilities (NYSE:WTRG) Risk Assessment Explanation

Based on the four aspects listed above, GuruFocus provides the following 7 evaluations:

All-in-One Screener Examples (1)
Low Risk: Strong fundamentals, worth long-term holding
Moderate Risk: Sensitive, better choose undervalued stock
High Risk: High uncertainty with risk-return tradeoff
High Risk: Good fundamentals, beware of shrinking business
High Risk: Sensitive to economic or industry trends
High Risk: High uncertainty
No Data: Cannot be evaluated

(1) These are some simple examples. You can access our Risk Assessment filter under All-in-One Screener’s Fundamental tab and set your own criteria.

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Essential Utilities (Essential Utilities) Business Description

Industry

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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