Essential Utilities Inc 's ROA from the first quarter of 2026 to the first quarter of 2025 and 5 Year Period

Return on Assets, Quarterly Results, Trends, Rankings, Statistics

What is Essential Utilities Inc 's ROA in the first quarter of 2026?
Essential Utilities Inc achieved a return on average assets (ROA) of 2.87 % in its first quarter of 2026, which is below Essential Utilities Inc 's average return on assets, which stands at 2.92%.

ROA fell compared to the fourth quarter of 2025, despite the net income growth of 69.13% from the fourth quarter of 2025.

However, within the Utilities sector 61 other companies had a higher return on assets. While Return on assets, overall ranking has advanced in the Mar 31 2026 quarter, so far to 1615, from total ROA ranking in the fourth quarter of 2025 at 1796.

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Return On Assets	(Mar 31 2026) I. Quarter	(Dec 31 2025) IV. Quarter	(Sep 30 2025) III. Quarter	(Jun 30 2025) II. Quarter	(Mar 31 2025) I. Quarter
Y / Y Total Assets Change	8.58 %	-48.97 %	7.42 %	7.53 %	7.42 %
Y / Y Net Income Change	-20.93 %	-28.19 %	32.67 %	43.04 %	6.78 %
Net Income (TTM) in million	557	616	668	646	613
Return On Assets (TTM)	2.87 %	3.24 %	2.79 %	2.74 %	2.63 %
WTRG's Total Ranking	# 1615	# 1796	# 1593	# 1585	# 1627
Total Assets (TTM) in million	19,782	20,549	18,767	18,454	18,219
Seq. Total Assets Change	-3.74 %	9.5 %	1.7 %	1.29 %	-54.76 %
Seq. Net Income Change	69.13 %	44.09 %	-14.61 %	-62 %	53.6 %

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Return On Assets Company Ranking
Within:	No.
Industry	# 7
Sector	# 62
Overall	# 1607

Return On Assets Statistics
High	Average	Low
3.28 %	2.92 %	2.53 %
(Dec 31 2025)		(Dec 31 2023)

Financial Statements
Essential Utilities Inc 's Assets	$ 19,782 million	WTRG's Balance sheet
Essential Utilities Inc 's Income	$ 224 million	Quarterly WTRG's Income Statement
WTRG's Income by Division		See WTRG's Income by Division

Annual Return On Assets	(Dec 31 2025) FY 2025	(Dec 31 2024) FY 2024	(Dec 31 2023) FY 2023	(Dec 31 2022) FY 2022	(Dec 31 2021) FY 2021
Y / Y Total Assets Change	8.64 %	7.02 %	7.62 %	7.13 %	55.77 %
Total Assets in million	19,466	17,918	16,742	15,557	14,521
Y / Y Net Income Change	3.54 %	19.49 %	7.09 %	7.79 %	90.34 %
Net Income in million	616	595	498	465	432
Annual Return On Assets	3.17 %	3.32 %	2.98 %	2.99 %	2.97 %

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Comment on WTRG's ROA in the fiscal year ending 2025

In the fiscal year 2025 ROA deteriorated to 3.17 %, despite annual net income growth of 3.54 % to $616.37 million, from $595.31 million a year ago, as WTRG's assets increase to $19,466.29 million, by 3.54 %.

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Date modified: 2026-09-08T15:11:41+00:00

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