WTRGEssential Utilities, Inc.
−0.8% today · +17.9% over a year
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Dividend yield 3.88%.
Essential Utilities, Inc. (WTRG) dividends: trailing yield 3.88%, next ex-dividend date 10 Nov 2026, Dividend Safety 70/100, not lowered for 25 years, 5-year growth 6.3% a year.
Yield after tax (estimate)
Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom
- Last 12 months
- 3.88% → 3.20%
- Forward
- 3.20% → 2.63%
Of every 100 paid out
- Withheld at source (United States)
- 15.00%
- Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
- 0.00%
- Cyprus GeSY health contribution
- 2.65%
- You keep
- 82.35%
- Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
- US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
- GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.
Cyprus resident, domiciled: 3.20%
Estimate, not tax advice: published rules as of 2026-10-14 for the profile chosen; your broker’s withholding and your own situation can differ. How we estimate tax
Next payment
- Ex-dividend date
- 10 Nov 2026
- Payment date
- 01 Dec 2026
- Amount per share
- $0.3606
- Status
- Verified
Dividend profile
- 5-year dividend growth (per year)
- +6.3%
- Years without a lower dividend
- 25
- Years without a cut of over 10 %
- 25
- Payout ratio (earnings)
- 88%
Annual total matches the company's SEC filing
Sources disagreeDividend or fundamental sources disagree beyond tolerance.
Dividends per share by year
Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.
Payment history
Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.
| Status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2026 | 01 Dec 2026 | $0.895 | Regular | Announced | 1 |
| 10 Nov 2026 | 01 Dec 2026 | $0.3606 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
| 11 Aug 2026 | 01 Sep 2026 | $0.361 | Regular | Sources disagree | 3 |
| 12 May 2026 | 02 Jun 2026 | $0.343 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
Each payment is checked against up to 3 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.
What dividend safety is made of
0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
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