WTRG - Essential Utilities - Stock Forecast

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WTRG is currently covered by 4 analysts with an average price target of $42.75. This is a potential upside of $3.52 (8.97%) from yesterday's end of day stock price of $39.23.

Essential Utilities's activity chart (see below) currently has 112 price targets and 80 ratings on display. The stock rating distribution of WTRG is 72.73% BUY, 18.18% HOLD and 9.09% SELL.

Stock Analyst Price Targets - Review

Analysts average stock forecasts to be materialized ratio is 25.46% with an average time for these price targets to be met of 258.21 days.

Highest price target for WTRG is $49, Lowest price target is $38, average price target is $42.75.

Most recent stock forecast was given by GREGG ORRILL from UBS on 10-Sep-2026. First documented stock forecast 16-Apr-2020.

Currently out of the existing stock ratings of WTRG, 8 are a BUY (72.73%), 2 are a HOLD (18.18%), 1 are a SELL (9.09%).

Analyst name

Rating

Current price target

Potential Upside

Previous price target

Date of last PT

Price targets met ratio

Average potential upside

Average Days to Hit Target

Performance score

Buy Since 02-Jul-2026

$49

$9.47 (23.96%)

$46

20 days ago
(10-Sep-2026)

2/10 (20%)

$7.2 (17.22%)

765

Sell Since 15-Jul-2026

$40

$0.47 (1.19%)

$38

2 months 15 days ago
(15-Jul-2026)

3/4 (75%)

$2.41 (6.41%)

127

Hold Since 28-Sep-2023

$42

$2.47 (6.25%)

$42

9 months 27 days ago
(03-Dec-2025)

2/2 (100%)

$4.19 (11.08%)

679

Buy Since 10-Oct-2025

$44

$4.47 (11.31%)

$47

11 months 2 days ago
(28-Oct-2025)

2/5 (40%)

$4.89 (12.50%)

609

Buy Since 13-Jan-2021

$47

$7.47 (18.90%)

$46

1 years 1 months 26 days ago
(04-Aug-2025)

0/10 (0%)

$10.36 (28.28%)

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What is WTRG (Essential Utilities) average time for price targets to be met?

On average it took 258 days for the stock forecasts to be reached, with an average price target met ratio of 25.46%.

Which analyst most recently updated their price target on WTRG (Essential Utilities)?

Gregg Orrill

Which analyst has the most public recommendations on WTRG (Essential Utilities)?

Gregg Orrill works at UBS and has 17 price targets and 11 ratings on WTRG

Which analyst is the currently most bullish on WTRG (Essential Utilities)?

Verity Mitchell with the highest potential upside of $17.47

Which analyst is the currently most reserved on WTRG (Essential Utilities)?

Nicholas Campanella with the lowest potential downside of -$0.65
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