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Essential Utilities, Inc.

WTRG Net selling
CIK 0000078128 #876 in the set updated 18 Sep 2026
Bought (120 mo)
$3.49M
out of their own pocket, the only kind of buying there is
Sold (120 mo)
$9.27M
$0.00 on a plan · $619.83K straight out of an exercise
Sold at will
$8.65M
26 of 28 sales
Net
−$5.77M
−$5.15M against sales at will

By person

27 insiders · 38 transactions
13.5×

Christopher H. Franklin holds 13.5 times base salary in stock. $14.94M of shares against $1.10M in salary for 2025.

Salary from the company's own proxy. The shares are what Christopher H. Franklin last reported holding, valued at $39.55, the price Common Stock was last bought or sold at on the open market here, on 7 Aug 2026.

Insider
Role
Bought
Sold
Net
Holding
Worth
Change
Franklin Chris
Chief Executive Officer
$2.35M (2)
$5.09M (4)
−$2.73M
377,685
$14.94M
+184.5%
RUBIN ROBERT A
CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER
$1.43M (10)
−$1.43M
53,617
$2.12M
−16.0%
FOX RICHARD SCOTT
Chief Operating Officer
$100.14K (1)
$756.05K (5)
−$655.90K
37,485
$1.48M
+226.9%
Luning Christopher Paul
EVP, General Counsel
$532.93K (1)
−$532.93K
84,608
$3.35M
+136.2%
Hilferty Daniel J III
Director
$501.99K (4)
+$501.99K
38,011
$1.50M
Ruff Ellen T
Director
$410.50K (1)
−$410.50K
30,438
$1.20M
+42.1%
SMELTZER DAVID
Executive VP & CFO
$363.60K (1)
−$363.60K
81,273
$3.21M
+9.0%
STEWART LEE C
Director
$329.50K (1)
+$329.50K
23,003
$909.77K
GLANTON RICHARD H
Director
$282.98K (2)
−$282.98K
4,423
$174.93K
−52.3%
Arnold Colleen
President - Aqua
$164.96K (2)
−$164.96K
17,347
$686.07K
+198.0%
Rhodes Matthew
EVP, Strategy & Corp Dev
$136.65K (1)
−$136.65K
39,100
$1.55M
+524.6%
Amato Elizabeth B
Director
$108.56K (1)
+$108.56K
26,636
$1.05M
SCHULLER DANIEL
Executive Vice President
$100.53K (1)
$100.00K (1)
+$528.00
83,504
$3.30M
+1,145%
GREENBERG LON R
Director
33,361
$1.32M
+9.7%
HANKOWSKY WILLIAM P
Director
32,567
$1.29M
+24.1%
DEBENEDICTIS NICHOLAS
Director
26,378
$1.04M
−17.6%
Huwar Michael
President - Peoples
21,294
$842.16K
+244.7%
Ciesinski David Alan
Director
16,800
$664.44K
+167,900%
HOLLAND WENDELL F
Director
16,492
$652.26K
+62.2%
Lewis Wilbert Bryan
Director
13,999
$553.66K
Linde Tamara Louise
Director
10,533
$416.58K
Bruner Christopher L
Director
10,533
$416.58K
WOMACK CHRISTOPHER C
Director
9,083
$359.23K
Burke Carolyn Jeanne
Director
6,855
$271.12K
+1,189%
Idehen Francis Osarume
Director
6,534
$258.42K
WEST RODERICK K
Director
4,071
$161.01K
Palmer Bradley John
Chief Accounting Officer
2,270
$89.78K
+69.7%

No percentages here. These insiders hold more than one class of share between them, and the share count on file covers one of them rather than all. Dividing the two would compare different things.

Insider
Date
Role
Action
Shares
Price
Amount
Amato Elizabeth B
5 Mar 2024
Director
Buy
3,100
$35.02
$108.56K
Franklin Chris
8 Mar 2023
Chief Executive Officer
Buy indirect
37,245
$40.70
$1.52M
Hilferty Daniel J III
10 Mar 2020
Director
Buy
6,900
$43.78
$302.11K
Hilferty Daniel J III
9 Sep 2019
Director
Buy
1,152
$43.38
$49.97K
Hilferty Daniel J III
15 Aug 2019
Director
Buy
1,153
$43.35
$49.98K
Hilferty Daniel J III
15 Nov 2018
Director
Buy
3,070
$32.55
$99.93K
FOX RICHARD SCOTT
15 Nov 2018
Chief Operating Officer
Buy indirect
3,096
$32.35
$100.14K
Franklin Chris
14 Nov 2018
Chief Executive Officer
Buy
25,421
$32.86
$835.34K
STEWART LEE C
14 Nov 2018
Director
Buy
10,000
$32.95
$329.50K
SCHULLER DANIEL
14 Nov 2018
Executive Vice President
Buy
3,050
$32.96
$100.53K

What was left out

Form 4 filings counted 390
Amendments (4/A) skipped 15
Filings about a different issuer 0
Unreadable filings 0
Joint filings 0
Sales on a Rule 10b5-1 plan 0
Sales straight out of an exercise 2
Sales at will 26
Transactions with no price 0
Shares from compensation/vesting 1,500,629
Sales filed before the plan box existed 18
History held since 9 Sep 2016