Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Essential Utilities share buybacks

$2.3M−43.6% · FY2025

Essential Utilities (WTRG) reported $2.3M in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, −43.6% year on year.

$1.2M2011$1.5M2012$12.8M2013$15.8M2014$25.2M2015$3.0M2016$2.2M2017$2.6M2018$1.9M2019$4.4M2020$3.3M2021$1.2M2022$4.0M2023$4.0M2024$2.3M2025
Essential Utilities — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$2.3M−43.6%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$4.0M+1.7%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$4.0M+234.0%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$1.2M−63.8%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$3.3M−24.6%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$4.4M+133.8%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$1.9M−26.9%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$2.6M+17.9%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$2.2M−28.4%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$3.0M−88.0%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$25.2M+60.2%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$15.8M+22.9%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$12.8M+775.9%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$1.5M+25.9%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$1.2M—Open →

Share buybacks — Share buybacks are the cash a company spent during the year repurchasing its own stock, taken from the financing section of the cash-flow statement. Most companies buy back nothing at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the minority that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth +4.9%

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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BibTeX

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  title        = {{Essential Utilities share buybacks}},
  year         = {2026},
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  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
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The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0000078128-26-000050 · February 26, 2026

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