Essential Utilities, Inc.

WTRG stock score: 63/100

$43.30 · +6.28% · Scored Oct 22, 2026

Technical
65
Fundamental
60
News
56

The reading

Essential Utilities (WTRG) scores 63 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 80% of Utilities stocks and 84% of the 4,161 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 65, fundamentals 60.

Among the fundamentals, Fund Ownership at 100 and Institutional Ownership at 100 score highest, while Free Cash Flow Yield at 2 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 67 and contrarian oscillators 28 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 56; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 53 to 75, and it ends the period where it started.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward WTRG’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

60

Pulling it up

  • Fund Ownership100

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Institutional Ownership100

    Institutional ownership measures the percentage held by professional investors.

  • Earnings Quality (Annual)100

    Earnings Quality (Annual) assesses absolute profitability independent of growth, measuring whether the company is profitable, its earnings yield (earnings/market cap), profit margins, and consistency.

Holding it back

  • Free Cash Flow Yield2

    Free cash flow yield is free cash flow divided by market value: the cash a business generates for each dollar of its price.

  • Price to Sales Ratio3

    Price-to-Sales ratio compares market capitalization to annual revenue.

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)4

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

63

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Stochastic (14)100

    Stochastic Oscillator (14-period) compares the current price to its range over 14 periods.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (50)0

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (14)6

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
56

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly631
Daily633
Weekly672
Monthly692
Quarterly652

Composite score, last 90 days

05010063Jul 25, 2026Oct 22, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 63Jul 26, 2026: 62Jul 27, 2026: 63Jul 28, 2026: 65Jul 29, 2026: 64Jul 30, 2026: 65Jul 31, 2026: 75Aug 2, 2026: 57Aug 3, 2026: 57Aug 5, 2026: 56Aug 6, 2026: 58Aug 7, 2026: 61Aug 8, 2026: 60Aug 9, 2026: 60Aug 10, 2026: 59Aug 11, 2026: 59Aug 12, 2026: 61Aug 13, 2026: 61Aug 14, 2026: 60Aug 15, 2026: 61Aug 16, 2026: 61Aug 17, 2026: 60Aug 18, 2026: 61Aug 19, 2026: 61Aug 20, 2026: 62Aug 22, 2026: 60Aug 23, 2026: 60Aug 24, 2026: 62Aug 25, 2026: 62Aug 26, 2026: 62Aug 27, 2026: 61Aug 28, 2026: 62Aug 29, 2026: 62Aug 30, 2026: 62Aug 31, 2026: 62Sep 1, 2026: 63Sep 2, 2026: 63Sep 3, 2026: 63Sep 4, 2026: 62Sep 5, 2026: 63Sep 6, 2026: 63Sep 7, 2026: 63Sep 8, 2026: 63Sep 9, 2026: 63Sep 10, 2026: 62Sep 11, 2026: 61Sep 12, 2026: 61Sep 13, 2026: 61Sep 14, 2026: 62Sep 15, 2026: 62Sep 16, 2026: 61Sep 17, 2026: 61Sep 18, 2026: 61Sep 19, 2026: 60Sep 20, 2026: 60Sep 21, 2026: 60Sep 22, 2026: 59Sep 23, 2026: 61Sep 24, 2026: 60Sep 25, 2026: 57Sep 26, 2026: 57Sep 27, 2026: 57Sep 28, 2026: 54Sep 29, 2026: 55Sep 30, 2026: 56Oct 1, 2026: 53Oct 2, 2026: 57Oct 3, 2026: 57Oct 4, 2026: 57Oct 5, 2026: 54Oct 6, 2026: 54Oct 7, 2026: 53Oct 8, 2026: 54Oct 9, 2026: 55Oct 10, 2026: 55Oct 11, 2026: 55Oct 12, 2026: 56Oct 13, 2026: 59Oct 14, 2026: 60Oct 15, 2026: 61Oct 16, 2026: 62Oct 17, 2026: 62Oct 18, 2026: 62Oct 19, 2026: 61Oct 20, 2026: 62Oct 21, 2026: 62Oct 22, 2026: 63
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Key facts

Market cap
$12.3B
Sector
Utilities
Industry
Utilities - Regulated Water
Beta
0.62
Risk grade (1–10)
2
Next earnings
Nov 3, 2026

Utilities - Regulated Water peers

CompanyMarket capScore
AWK American Water Works Company$28.5B62
SBS Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP$22.0B75
AWR American States Water Company$3.4B63
CWT California Water Service Group$2.9B57
HTO H2O America$2.5B60

Questions

What is WTRG's stock score today?

WTRG scores 63/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 22, 2026: technical 65, fundamental 60, and news sentiment 56, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is WTRG a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 63 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the WTRG score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Utilities ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.