Essential Utilities price to sales ratio WTRG

Market value divided by revenue over the last twelve months, since 2011.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 4.8×
10-year median: 6.5×
Against its 10-year history: 21st; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 3.8× to 13.3×
Peer median: 4.9×

Essential Utilities' price to sales ratio is 4.8× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 6.5×, lower than on 79% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 3.8× in Oct 2023 to 13.3× in Feb 2020.

The median for 4 water utilities of a similar size is 4.9×.

Price to sales ratio over time

median 6.5×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	4.8×	4.1×	4.8×
2025	4.6×	4.4×	5.4×
2024	5.1×	4.2×	5.9×
2023	4.5×	3.8×	6.0×
2022	5.9×	5.1×	7.3×
2021	7.5×	6.3×	9.8×
2020	9.5×	8.7×	13.3×
2019	11.6×	7.1×	11.8×
2018	7.2×	7.0×	8.3×
2017	8.7×	6.4×	8.7×
2016	6.5×	6.3×	7.7×
2015	6.5×	5.5×	6.7×
2014	6.1×	5.3×	6.1×
2013	5.5×	4.9×	6.3×
2012	4.6×	4.0×	5.2×
2011	4.2×	3.9×	4.3×

Against its peers

Companies in Regulated Water nearest Essential Utilities' size, closest first, today.

Company	Price to sales ratio
WTRGEssential Utilities	4.8×
AWKAmerican Water Works	5.4×
AWRAmerican States Water	4.9×
CWTCalifornia Water Service	n/m
HTOH2O America	3.0×
Peer median	4.9×

Where Essential Utilities ranks

What the price to sales ratio tells you

Market value divided by revenue over the last twelve months. Useful for companies with little or no profit yet, since sales are harder to make negative than earnings.

Ignores margins entirely. A software company at 10× sales with 30% margins can be cheaper than a grocer at 1× sales with 2% margins.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.