California Water Service CWT

Regulated Water, Utilities

$48.04

+1.05%

Market cap: $3B
PE: 21.6×; 10y median 31.5×
Forward PE: n/m; not a meaningful number
Price to sales: n/m; not a meaningful number
EV/EBIT: 24.9×
Revenue, 12 months: n/m; not a meaningful number
Net margin: n/m; not a meaningful number
Free cash flow yield: n/m; not a meaningful number

California Water Service trades at 21.6× trailing earnings, cheaper than 77% of the last ten years.

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Financials

Income statement for CWT, by quarter
Income statement	Q3 FY23	Q4 FY23	Q1 FY24	Q2 FY24	Q3 FY24	Q4 FY24	Q1 FY25	Q2 FY25	Q3 FY25	Q4 FY25	Q1 FY26	Q2 FY26
SG&A	$34.2M+3%	$37.1M+11%	$35.6M−1%	$32M−8%	$35.5M+4%	$36.4M−2%	$34.2M−4%	$33.3M+4%	$36.2M+2%	$37.8M+4%	$33.7M−1%	$36.2M+9%
	$43.5M−33%	$35.2M+34%	$77.9M	$48.2M+202%	$66.7M+54%	$32.2M−9%	$22.3M−71%	$51.8M+8%	$70.6M+6%	$25.6M−21%	$18.2M−19%	$70.9M+37%
Interest expense	$13.5M+13%	$13M+11%	$15.8M+23%	$14.8M+10%	$14.4M+7%	$15.7M+20%	$16.5M+5%	$17.5M+18%	$18.1M+26%	$18.3M+17%	$19.6M+19%	$20.8M+19%
Pre-tax income	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Net income	$34.4M−38%	$30.1M+54%	$69.9M	$40.6M+324%	$60.7M+76%	$19.7M−35%	$13.3M−81%	$42.2M+4%	$61.2M+1%	$11.5M−42%	$4M−70%	$56.5M+34%
	$0.60−42%	$0.52+49%	$1.21	$0.70+312%	$1.03+72%	$0.33−37%	$0.22−82%	$0.71+1%	$1.03+0%	$0.19−42%	$0.07−68%	$0.93+31%
	57.7M+7%	57.7M+5%	57.8M+4%	58.3M+3%	59M+2%	59.5M+3%	59.6M+3%	59.6M+2%	59.7M+1%	59.7M+0%	59.8M+0%	60.4M+1%

Net income: 35 periods, Q3 FY11 to Q1 FY21: not printed by the filing, worked out from its own lines.

EPS, diluted: 15 periods, Q4 FY09 to Q4 FY25: quarter's net income to common over its shares, to the cent.

Diluted shares: 17 periods, Q4 FY09 to Q4 FY25: share-days: the 12-month average less the 9-month, weighted by days.

From each company's 10-Q and 10-K filings, the newest version of each figure. Quarters are as filed (a fourth quarter is the year less its first nine months), fiscal years as the 10-K prints them, restated where a later 10-K restated them, and balance sheet lines as of the period's end. A quarter whose 10-Q isn't filed yet is from the company's results release. Growth is on the same period a year earlier. A dash is a period with no figure for the line: the filing doesn't print it, or it hasn't been read yet.

Peers

Companies in Regulated Water nearest California Water Service's size, closest first.

Company	Market cap	PE	Its 10y median PE	Fwd PE	P/S	Revenue growth	Net margin
CWTCalifornia Water Service	$3B	21.6×	31.5×	n/m	n/m	n/m	n/m
AWRAmerican States Water	$3.4B	23.4×	31.5×	n/m	4.9×	+13%	20.5%
HTOH2O America	$2.5B	20.8×	24.2×	n/m	3.0×	+5%	12.9%
MSEXMiddlesex Water	$1.1B	21.6×	30.3×	n/m	5.1×	+5%	23.3%
WTRGEssential Utilities	$12.2B	22.0×	25.6×	n/m	4.8×	+10%	21.6%
YORWYork Water	$516.4M	19.8×	31.6×	n/m	6.2×	+9%	28.5%
CWCOConsolidated Water	$445M	28.1×	32.0×	n/m	3.5×	−1%	12.7%
ARTNAArtesian Resources	$352.2M	14.9×	23.1×	n/m	3.0×	+6%	20.2%
AWKAmerican Water Works	$28.4B	24.7×	29.9×	23.4×	5.4×	+7%	21.3%
Peer median	$1.8B	21.8×	30.1×	23.4×	4.8×	+6%	20.9%