WTR News and Press, Aqua America Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Essential Utilities Inc. (NYSE: WTRG; formerly Aqua America, Inc. [WTR]) is one of the largest publicly traded water, wastewater, and natural gas providers in the U.S., serving approximately five million people across 10 states under ...

The board of directors of Aqua America (NYSE: WTR) today declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.2343 per share, payable on March 1, 2020 to all shareholders of record on Feb. 14, 2020. Aqua America recently announced that its new company name, Essential Utilities Inc., will take effect ...

Aqua America Inc. (NYSE: WTR) expects to report earnings for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2019 and the full year 2019 following market close Feb. 26, 2020. Aqua will also host an investor day on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time at the New York Stock Exchange. Aqua America recent...

Aqua America Inc. (NYSE: WTR) announced today its Ohio subsidiary has completed the purchase of the City of Campbell’s water treatment plant and distribution system, which serves about 3,200 connections in Mahoning County, for $7.5 million. This is the first acquisition by an Aqua Amer...

Company also names presidents of gas and water utilities Aqua America Inc. (NYSE: WTR) announced today its new company name, Essential Utilities, Inc. (“Essential”) that will take effect on Monday, Feb. 3. In addition, the company is also announcing the members of the e...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, I wrote an article comparing the 3 largest US-based water utilities . Okay, it was 2016, and I was on this very same planet. But what recently caught my attention was that it is still generating a decent amount of views each month, certainly a lot mo...

We're going to look at last year's 11 best-performing utility stocks. Given that winners tend to keep winning, you might find one or more stocks here that you'd consider investing in.  The utility stocks on the list pay dividends ranging from 1.6% to 5.1%, with most in the 2% to 4% ra...

Aqua America (NYSE: WTR) has announced that Kari Bennett has been named president of its Indiana subsidiary. Bennett succeeds Thomas M. Bruns, who retired at the end of 2019 after 15 years of dedicated leadership at the company. Bennett reports to Colleen Arnold, deputy chief operating office...

It was more of the same in the stock market last week in terms of returns, but the catalysts supporting the rally shifted from easing trade tensions and dovish Federal Reserve policy to a deescalating of tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Specifically, a tepid Iranian response to the U.S. str...

Welcome to all my readers, and happy new year! First of all, as you can probably tell by the title, I've switched to a quarterly portfolio review. This makes much more sense than a monthly one as it allows to see slightly longer term trends, which is what both myself and my readers are mostly ...