Essential Utilities is the holding company for regulated utilities providing water, wastewater, or natural gas services in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, Indiana, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides water or wastewater services in counties north and west of Philadelphia and other counties in Pennsylvania; natural gas distribution services to customers in western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West Virginia; water and sewer line protection solutions and repair services to households through a third-party; and utility service line protection services to households and operate gas marketing and production businesses. The WTRG YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the WTRG YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether WTRG YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the WTRG YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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