---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001552781-24-000010"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WTRG"
cik: "0000078128"
company_name: "Essential Utilities, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T02:43:56.700270+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Essential Utilities issues $500M of 5.375% Senior Notes due 2034

## Summary
- $500M principal of 5.375% Senior Notes maturing Jan 15, 2034; interest payable semi-annually.
- Notes redeemable at make-whole prior to Oct 15, 2033 (Par Call Date) and at par thereafter.
- Offering closed Jan 8, 2024; underwritten by RBC Capital Markets & Barclays Capital Inc.
- Issued under Base Indenture dated Apr 23, 2019, as supplemented by Seventh Supplemental Indenture.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001552781-24-000010
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WTRG
- cik: 0000078128
- company_name: Essential Utilities, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278124000010/0001552781-24-000010-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278124000010/e24007_wtrg-8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-24-000010
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-24-000010.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-24-000010.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Essential Utilities, Inc. entered into Seventh Supplemental Indenture with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association valued at $500,000,000 principal amount (effective 2024-01-08).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association
  - Value: $500,000,000 principal amount
  - Effective: 2024-01-08
  source text: On January 8, 2024, Essential Utilities, Inc. (the “Company”) issued $500,000,000 principal amount of its 5.375% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued pursuant to the indenture, dated as of April 23, 2019 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 23, 2019 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), and the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 8, 2024 (the “Seventh Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture and First Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), each between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor trustee.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278124000010/0001552781-24-000010-index.htm

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