Essential Utilities, Inc.: retained earnings or deficit
Retained earnings or deficit for Essential Utilities, Inc. Inspect selected reporting periods, original units and SEC filing links; download the financial history.
All Essential Utilities, Inc. financial histories
What this measure means
Accumulated undistributed earnings or deficit at the reporting date. This balance is not cash available for distribution.
Exact concept: us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit. Each value is a balance at the reporting date, not a flow earned over a year. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.
Coverage of this history
Selected reporting periods run from 2009-12-31 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.
Selected filing history
| Period start | Period end | Value | Unit | Filed | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At date | 2025-12-31 | 2,280,669,000 | USD | 2026-02-26 | 10-K · 0000078128-26-000050 |
| At date | 2024-12-31 | 1,949,492,000 | USD | 2026-02-26 | 10-K · 0000078128-26-000050 |
| At date | 2023-12-31 | 1,706,675,000 | USD | 2025-02-27 | 10-K · 0001562762-25-000036 |
| At date | 2022-12-31 | 1,534,331,000 | USD | 2024-02-29 | 10-K · 0001562762-24-000047 |
| At date | 2021-12-31 | 1,434,201,000 | USD | 2023-03-01 | 10-K · 0001562762-23-000064 |
| At date | 2020-12-31 | 1,261,862,000 | USD | 2022-03-01 | 10-K · 0001562762-22-000068 |
| At date | 2019-12-31 | 1,210,072,000 | USD | 2021-03-01 | 10-K · 0001562762-21-000081 |
| At date | 2018-12-31 | 1,174,245,000 | USD | 2020-02-28 | 10-K · 0000078128-20-000005 |
| At date | 2017-12-31 | 1,132,556,000 | USD | 2019-02-26 | 10-K · 0000078128-19-000002 |
| At date | 2016-12-31 | 1,032,844,000 | USD | 2018-02-28 | 10-K · 0000078128-18-000003 |
| At date | 2015-12-31 | 930,061,000 | USD | 2017-02-24 | 10-K · 0000078128-17-000002 |
| At date | 2014-12-31 | 849,952,000 | USD | 2016-02-26 | 10-K · 0001562762-16-000347 |
| At date | 2013-12-31 | 729,272,000 | USD | 2015-02-27 | 10-K · 0000078128-15-000003 |
| At date | 2012-12-31 | 611,303,000 | USD | 2014-03-03 | 10-K · 0001193125-14-080172 |
| At date | 2011-12-31 | 508,334,000 | USD | 2013-02-28 | 10-K · 0001193125-13-084841 |
| At date | 2010-12-31 | 452,470,000 | USD | 2012-02-27 | 10-K · 0001193125-12-082050 |
| At date | 2009-12-31 | 409,402,000 | USD | 2011-02-25 | 10-K · 0000950123-11-018861 |
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- Essential Utilities, Inc.: diluted earnings per share
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: income tax expense or benefit
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: net property, plant and equipment
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: share-based compensation expense
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: operating income or loss
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: current assets
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: interest expense
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: current liabilities
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: current accounts payable
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: goodwill carrying amount
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: net current accounts receivable
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: common-stock repurchase payments
- Essential Utilities, Inc.: net inventory
Inspect the source
- Entity
- Essential Utilities, Inc. / CIK 0000078128
- Captured
- 2026-09-19T14:51:04.300Z
- SEC response SHA-256
a79237ca50e797b21b2cec4374cc76fadbc3b054cdc5e9f85fadf7863c6ec6a3
Current SEC company facts · Download the original response snapshot (gzip) · Download the selected JSON
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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen
with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000078128.json") as response:
record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))