Essential Utilities
S&P 400
$41.07
-1.75%
Delayed · cached 15 min
Peer comparison
| Company | Price↕ | Market Cap↕ | P/E↕ | P/B↕ | ROE %↕ | ROCE %↕ | Div yield %↕ | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Water Works | $ 137.69 | $27.36B | 23.86 | 2.35 | 9.52 | 5.93 | 2.42 | Above FV |
| Essential Utilities | $ 41.07 | $11.65B | 21.06 | 1.66 | 8.78 | 4.80 | 3.28 | Above FV |
| American States Water Company | $ 86.48 | $3.43B | 23.63 | 3.06 | 11.63 | 7.82 | 2.30 | Above FV |
| California Water Service Group | $ 48.22 | $2.98B | 21.62 | 1.65 | 13.79 | 3.08 | 2.60 | Above FV |
| H2O America | $ 62.66 | $2.62B | 22.06 | 1.42 | 5.59 | 3.49 | 2.73 | Above FV |
| Middlesex Water Company | $ 56.69 | $1.07B | 21.89 | 2.05 | 8.22 | 4.09 | 2.48 | Above FV |
Price, market cap, P/E, P/B and dividend yield reflect the live quote (delayed, cached 15 min); ROE/ROCE from reported financials. The highlighted row is the current company. Click a column header to sort. Educational data only.
How to read the peer comparison
This table places the company beside others in the same industry on a few common measures. Comparison adds context that a single company's numbers cannot give on their own.
- Valuation multiples like P/E and P/B are most meaningful within the same industry, because different industries naturally trade at different levels. Comparing a company only to its peers is more useful than to the whole market.
- Return measures (ROE, ROCE) show how efficiently each company turns capital into profit. A company well ahead of or behind its peers here is worth understanding.
- No single column decides anything. A beginner reads the row across — valuation, returns, and size together — and treats the highlighted current company as one data point among its peers.
- Use the sortable headers to rank peers on any measure, but remember that "cheaper" or "higher" on one metric is a starting question, not an answer.
Educational only — not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security.