Earnings call transcript: H2O America Q2 2025 sees EPS growth, strategic Texas expansion

H2O America (trading near its 52-week high of $2.58) reported its second-quarter earnings for 2025, revealing a 14% increase in adjusted earnings per share (EPS) compared to the previous year. According to InvestingPro, the stock has shown resilience with a modest 0.45% return over the past year. The company achieved a diluted EPS of $0.71, with an adjusted EPS of $0.75, surpassing expectations. Revenue rose by 13% to $10.9 million. The company reaffirmed its 2025 adjusted diluted EPS guidance of $2.90 to $3.00. H2O America’s strategic acquisition of QuadVest in Texas is expected to significantly expand its market presence.

Key Takeaways

• Adjusted EPS increased by 14% year-over-year.
• Revenue grew by 13% to $10.9 million.
• Reaffirmed 2025 EPS guidance between $2.90 and $3.00.
• QuadVest acquisition to increase Texas customer base significantly.
• Continued investment in water infrastructure and regulatory approvals.

Company Performance

H2O America demonstrated strong performance in Q2 2025, with a 14% increase in adjusted EPS and a 13% rise in revenue. The company’s strategic focus on expanding its market share in Texas through the acquisition of QuadVest is a key driver of its growth. This acquisition will potentially make H2O America the second-largest investor-owned water utility in Texas, serving some of the fastest-growing U.S. counties.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $10.9 million, up 13% year-over-year.
• Diluted EPS: $0.71, adjusted EPS: $0.75, up 14% compared to 2024.
• $273 million invested in water and wastewater infrastructure by June 30.

Outlook & Guidance

H2O America reaffirmed its adjusted diluted EPS guidance for 2025, projecting between $2.90 and $3.00. The company plans to invest $473 million in capital for 2025 and expects the QuadVest acquisition to be accretive from 2028 onwards. For deeper insights into H2O America’s valuation and growth prospects, InvestingPro subscribers can access exclusive analysis, including Fair Value estimates and comprehensive financial health metrics in our detailed Pro Research Report. H2O America is also planning a Texas rate case filing in early 2027, aiming to continue its focus on infrastructure investment and regulatory engagement.

Executive Commentary

CEO Andrew Walters emphasized the company’s commitment to water management, stating, "Water is now front and center in our name." President and COO Bruce Hawk highlighted the strategic importance of the QuadVest acquisition, noting, "Adding QuadVest to the Texas Water Company is a unique opportunity to strategically diversify, enhance and expand H2O America’s operations."

Risks and Challenges

• Potential dilution from the QuadVest acquisition in 2026-2027.
• Regulatory challenges related to infrastructure investments and rate increases.
• Market competition in rapidly growing regions.
• Economic pressures affecting capital investment plans.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts inquired about the Texas fair market value appraisal process for the QuadVest acquisition and the PFAS recovery mechanism in Connecticut. The company also discussed potential regulatory changes in Texas, including the hybrid/future test year implementation.

H2O America’s strategic initiatives and strong financial performance in Q2 2025 position it well for future growth, particularly in the expanding Texas market. With continued investment in infrastructure and a focus on regulatory engagement, the company aims to sustain its momentum in the coming years. Currently trading at $2.58, near its 52-week high, investors can access detailed valuation analysis and over 30 key financial metrics through InvestingPro’s comprehensive research tools and Pro Research Report.

Full transcript - SJW Corp (SJW) Q2 2025:

Conference Operator: Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the H2O America second quarter financial results call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers’ presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you’ll need to press 11 on your telephone.

You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press 11 again. Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded. I’d now like to hand the conference over to Anne Kelly, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Please go ahead.

Anne Kelly, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, H2O America: Thank you, operator. Welcome to the second quarter twenty twenty five financial results conference call for H2O America. I will be presenting today with Andrew Walters, Chief Executive Officer and Bruce Hawk, President and Chief Operating Officer. For those who would like to follow along, slides accompanying our remarks are available on our website at www.h2oamerica.com. Before we begin today, I would like to remind you that this presentation and the related materials posted on our website may contain forward looking statements.

These statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by the company in light of its experience, historical trends, current conditions, and expected future results, as well as other factors that the company believes are appropriate under the circumstances. Many factors could cause the company’s actual results and performance to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward looking statements. For a description of some of the factors that could cause actual results to be different from statements in this presentation, we refer you to the financial results press release and to our most recent Forms 10 ks, 10 Q, and eight ks filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which may be obtained on our website. All forward looking statements are made as of today, and H2O America disclaims any duty to update or revise such statements. You will have an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the presentation.

This webcast is being recorded, and an archive of the webcast will be available until 10/20/2025. You can access the press release and the webcast at H2O America’s website. In addition, some of the information discussed today includes the non GAAP financial measures of adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share that have not been calculated in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in The United States, or GAAP. These non GAAP financial measures should be considered as a supplement to the financial information prepared on a GAAP basis rather than an alternative to the respective GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are presented in the table in the appendix of our presentation.

I will now turn the call over to Andrew.

Andrew Walters, Chief Executive Officer, H2O America: Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Before I begin, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge those impacted by the devastating flooding in the Texas Hill Country earlier this month. We are deeply saddened by the loss of so many lives. Our hearts go out to those affected, including our communities, our coworkers, our customers, and those who have lost loved ones. We also want to thank all of the first responders for their heroic efforts, as well as our entire Texas Water team who continue to serve their neighbors with integrity and courage as they face concerns about the health and safety of their own loved ones.

Now, we’ll turn to our second quarter updates. There have been many changes at our company since the first quarter financial results update. In May, we rebranded SJW Group as H2O America and changed our ticker to HTO. The name and ticker better reflect who we are as a company. Water is now front and center in our name, which is fitting for one of America’s largest investor owned pure play water and wastewater utilities.

It also reflects our national platform and the strength we bring to our local utility operations so they can better serve their local customers. On June 30, Eric Thornburg retired as President and CEO, leaving an impressive career that spanned more than four decades. He leaves an enduring legacy in the industry and at our company. We wish him the best. I was honored to step into the CEO role on July 1, and was joined by Bruce Hawk as President and Chief Operating Officer, Kristen Johnson as President of Shared Services, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, and Anne Kelly as our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.

Just yesterday, we welcomed another highly accomplished leader to H2O America. Megan Mattern is our new Principal Accounting Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, and Controller. She joins us from UGI International, where she recently served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Megan brings two decades of experience in complex regulated environments, spanning global energy, utilities, and infrastructure, making her an outstanding addition to our national leadership team. She shares our commitment to culture, service and communities.

At H2O America, we protect what’s precious and we do it right, we do it together and we do it with heart. I am pleased to share that our 2025, we delivered strong financial results, including net income of $0.75 per share on an adjusted 14% increase over the 2024. Our performance reflects our continued execution of our proven growth strategy, focus on investments in our infrastructure and our water systems across our national footprint, and constructive engagement and consensus building with key local stakeholders, all with an eye on affordability. Some highlights from the second quarter. We spearheaded legislation in Connecticut that was signed into law and will allow for faster recovery of PFAS investments and avoid rate shock for customers.

We supported legislation in Texas that will similarly reduce how long it takes us to recover capital investments through infrastructure recovery mechanisms and provided for a future test year in general rate cases. We championed a law in Maine that allows water utilities to offer affordability programs to customers. We requested and received approval in California to recover the capital invested in our advanced metering infrastructure project. And finally, Texas Water’s second system improvement charge was approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Texas. I am also happy to share that we invested $2.00 $7,000,000 in water and wastewater utility infrastructure across all four states through June 30, and we are on track to meet our $473,000,000 capital plan for 2025.

Just after the quarter ended, we announced an agreement to acquire QuadVest, a water and wastewater utility serving Greater Houston, Texas area, the second fastest growing metropolitan area in the country. We expect the acquisition to close by mid-twenty twenty six, at which point our combined Texas Water operation would become the second largest investor owned water utility in Texas, serving seven of the 50 fastest growing counties in The United States, placing us in the top 2% of counties nationwide. QuadBest adds significant operational scale to both our Texas operations and H2O America, with a strong and growing developer pipeline of connections under contract and pending future development. We expect the transaction to be dilutive to earnings in 2026 and 2027 before becoming accretive in 2028 and meaningfully accretive to our long term growth rate. Bruce will have more on the QuadBest acquisition and state regulatory matters later in the call.

Overall, it’s been a strong, strategic and financial first half of the year with several milestones we’re proud of. With that, I’ll turn it over to Anne to walk us through our financial results.

Anne Kelly, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, H2O America: Thank you, Andrew. Yesterday, after the market closed, we released our second quarter operating results. As Andrew mentioned, we were pleased to report diluted EPS of $0.71 and adjusted diluted EPS of $0.75 for the quarter. With these strong results, we are reaffirming our 2025 guidance range of adjusted diluted earnings per share of $2.9 to $3 We are also reaffirming H2O America’s 5% to seven percent earnings growth rate through 2029, and we continue to expect to be in the top half of the range. We are very pleased with our strong performance in the 2025.

However, it’s important to note that this period reflects the full benefit of new rate cases at San Jose Water, which was effective on 01/01/2025, and Connecticut Water, which was effective 07/01/2024, compared to the prior year. And, as a reminder, last year’s results also benefited from tax favorability in the 2024, including an $0.11 one time benefit in Q3 ’twenty four from a change in accounting method. As we look ahead, we remain focused on disciplined execution to meet our annual and long term growth targets. Factors impacting second quarter earnings per share are shown on slide 10. At a high level, increased revenue from rates and usage drove a revenue increase of $0.57 The revenue increase was partially offset by higher water production expenses of $0.27 other operating expense of $0.19 and an additional zero five dollars due to an increase in the number of shares outstanding.

Turning to the next slide, I will provide more detail on each of these areas. Our revenues increased 13% in the second quarter. Rate increases from the general rate cases in California and Connecticut, along with increases from our infrastructure mechanisms in Connecticut, Maine, and Texas, contributed $10,900,000 to the revenue increase. 6,700,000.0 is attributable to pass through water costs for our wholesalers as these costs continue to increase each year. Higher customer usage added another 4,900,000 as increased usage in California more than offset a reduction in Texas due to ongoing conservation measures.

I’ll speak more about that in a moment. And the revenue increase associated with the higher usage was partially offset by a reduction in regulatory mechanisms. As I mentioned a moment ago, water conservation measures remain in place in much of our Texas service area. Recent rains over the past month have helped our water supplies. However, the recovery has not yet been enough to lift water conservation measures.

We are more than halfway through our peak lawn irrigation season, and we do not expect any adjustment to our 2025 guidance based on Texas revenue. Water production expenses increased 15% in the quarter and was primarily driven by an increased cost of $8,000,000 from our water wholesalers that are largely offset in revenue. There was also a $2,700,000 increase in expense associated with our higher production volume and a $300,000 reduction in other production costs and regulatory mechanisms. Turning to slide 13. For the quarter, we reported an increase of 13% in other operating expenses.

Customer credit losses increased $4,600,000 over the same period of 2024. You may recall that in the second quarter of last year, San Jose Water received a nonrecurring payment from the California Water and Wastewater Arrearage Payment Program to relieve outstanding payment delinquencies. General and administrative expenses increased $3,700,000 primarily driven by contracted work and acquisition costs. And lower maintenance costs offset increases in other areas. Factors impacting earnings per share for the year to date period are shown on slide 14.

At a high level, increased revenue from GRCs and infrastructure recovery mechanisms drove a revenue increase of $1.4 The revenue increase was partially offset by higher water production expense of $0.45 and, as noted during my remarks for the quarter, purchased water costs are largely offset in revenue. Operating expenses increased $0.27 driven by increases in customer credit losses in addition to increased expenses for insurance and contracted work. And an additional $08 was due to an increase in the number of shares outstanding. Breakdowns of revenue, water production expenses, and other operating expenses for the first six months of 2025 are available in the appendix of our slide presentation. On the financing side, through the first six months we took advantage of investor interest and raised approximately $84,000,000 of our 120,000,000 to $140,000,000 expected annual equity proceeds through our At the Market Equity Program.

At the end of the quarter, we had $161,000,000 drawn on our $360,000,000 bank lines of credits, which left $199,000,000 available for short term financing of utility plan additions and operating activities. The average borrowing rate for our line of credit has been approximately 5.45% compared to 6.53% in the prior year. Also, after quarter end, Maine Water borrowed $25,000,000 under an existing loan agreement for thirty year debt at 6.7% fixed interest, and CTWS repaid the outstanding $25,000,000 balance under its credit agreement. On the tax front, our consolidated income tax rate was 16%, which was consistent over the first half of last year. And with that, I’ll turn the call over to Bruce, who will provide updates on key state regulatory developments and the QuadVest acquisition.

Bruce Hawk, President and Chief Operating Officer, H2O America: Thank you, Ann. I am pleased to share that our constructive engagement with regulators, legislators and policy leaders continue to create value for our customers and the company. At San Jose Water, our request for a 6,800,000.0 revenue increase for advanced metering infrastructure project was approved and effective on 07/01/2025. The increase reflected our capital investment of $44,000,000 in AMI. Just this month, we launched the SJ Water Hub, the customer AMI and payment portal.

This platform gives customers Neil real time information on their water usage and enables them to create high water usage alerts so they can conduct leaks earlier and better manage their bills. We expect to fully build out our AMI platform to serve all customers by 2027. Maine Water successfully completed the general rate case in the Camden Rockland Division. The Maine Public Utilities Commission authorized a $865,000 increase in revenues. The MPUC also authorized a total of $547,000 in water infrastructure charge increases effective on 07/01/2025.

At Texas Water, our system improvement charge increase of 4,100,000 was approved and became effective on 05/15/2025. And at Connecticut Water, our latest water infrastructure and conservation adjustment surcharge increase of 1,600,000 went into effect on 04/01/2025. I want to give kudos to teams in our local states that are executing our $473,000,000 $20.25 CapEx plan, which was a significant increase over last year and designing and managing projects that are bringing critical infrastructure online to serve our customers, including our water supply resiliency projects in the Texas Hill Country. Turning to the next slide. Our regulatory affairs teams are making a meaningful difference at state legislators for our customers, the company, and all of our stakeholders.

Our approach of engaging with local stakeholders across our national footprint paid real dividends in this year’s state legislative sessions. Connecticut, we champion the water quality treatment adjustment to recover $190,000,000 we estimate is needed through 2029 to meet the PFAS standards. The WQTA provides for annual recovery of our investment to address PFAS and other emerging contaminants. Further, the WQTA increases the percent of capital in our five year plan that is recovered on a timely basis to 75% from 66%. I want to stress the recovery is for the total amount spent during the period, not just for completed projects.

We have filed the required assessment report and expect to be able to make our first WQTA to recover invested capital beginning in early twenty twenty six. To date, Texas has been a historic test year for water utility rate cases. Under new legislation signed by Governor Abbott, utilities will now have the option to use a future test year or a hybrid test year. In addition, the governor signed a bill that reduces the processing time for system improvement charge requests from one hundred and twenty days down to sixty days. Both laws take effect in September and are expected to support more timely recovery of capital investments.

In Maine, we work to get a new law on the books that allows Maine Public Utility Commission to authorize an affordability tariff for income eligible customers. This is a win for customers facing financial challenges. We are working with the Office of Public Advocate on implementing this as part of our application before the MPUC to unify our 10 separate rate districts into a single tariff. We expect a decision on the unification proceeding in the fourth quarter. We’ll now turn to an update on the QuadVest acquisition in Texas we announced earlier this month.

Adding QuadVest to the Texas Water Company is a unique opportunity to strategically diversify, enhance and expand H2O America’s operations in one of the fastest growing regions in The U. S. It will allow us to strengthen our network of developers and drive stronger returns for our investors. We’re bringing together two highly aligned teams that share a culture of servant leadership, positioning us to integrate seamlessly and execute effectively. By joining forces, we’re expanding our geographic reach and enhancing our overall scale and diversification.

This creates a more balanced utility portfolio and strengthens our ability to invest in infrastructure, operations and talent in Texas and across all states we serve. Texas currently represents about 7% of H2O America’s customer base. By 2029, we anticipate double digit growth fueled in large part by QuadVest, which will propel Texas to 26%, making it our second largest state in terms of customers served. I’ll have more on the growth story on the next slide. Just one day after the announcement, we notified the Public Utilities Commission of Texas of our intention to use fair market value for the transaction.

That notification started a thirty day window for the PUCT to appoint three appraisers. Under Texas fair market value rules, the appraisers have one hundred and twenty days to complete their work and the appraisals will be averaged to determine the fair market value. As we move through the regulatory process, we expect the transaction to close in mid twenty twenty six. Concurrent with the Quadvest acquisition, Texas Water is undertaking large infrastructure investment projects to increase the resilience of our water supply in the Texas Hill Country, including the interconnection of KT water supply. We expect that project to be in service by the 2026.

If the current timeline holds, we anticipate filing a general rate case in early twenty twenty seven for the combined Texas water operations. This filing would include the QuadVest rate base as determined through the fair market value process. We would expect new rates for Texas Water to become effective in early twenty twenty eight. The QuadBest acquisition is anticipated to be accretive in 2028 and meaningfully accretive to our long term growth rate. I also want to give you a sense of the growth potential of the QuadVest assets.

When we made our announcement, we were using 12/31/2024 connection numbers that showed QuadVest had 136,000 water and wastewater connections that were either active or under contract pending development. We have updated those numbers through the second quarter. QuadVest now has more than 140,000 connections that are either active or under contract and pending development, a 4% increase over six months. It is worth noting that regulated active customer growth was 2,000 connections, a significant six percent increase. Of course, future connection growth will vary based on a number of conditions, so this is no guarantee of future growth rates.

However, these results are within the range of our expectations, and we believe solid growth will continue in the Greater Houston area, the second fastest growing metropolitan area in The United States. With that, I will turn it back over to Andrew.

Andrew Walters, Chief Executive Officer, H2O America: Thank you, Bruce. The second quarter was strong for H2O America, and we have even more to look forward to in the rest of 2025. We remain focused on driving shareholder and customer value through disciplined infrastructure investment, advancing the QuadVest acquisition, deepening our strong partnerships with local stakeholders and unrelenting pursuit of operational excellence, and identifying creative and sustainable solutions that maintain affordability while investing in critical infrastructure as demands continue to grow across the water utility industry. And now, I’ll turn the call back over to the operator for questions.

Conference Operator: Our first question comes from Angie Storozynski with Seaport.

Angie Storozynski, Analyst, Seaport: Thank you. Good afternoon. So my next How are you, question is about how are you guys? Thank you. Okay.

So so the the question of Texas, the the SMB notification or the intent to use of SMB. So what happens next? So we’re waiting for those appraisers to be appointed and you’re not going to be filing your perspective of what you think the value of the assets is, right? We’re going be waiting for the appraisers to express their views?

Bruce Hawk, President and Chief Operating Officer, H2O America: Correct, Angie. The process is we filed on July 9, the notice of intent to use fair market value that sets off a thirty day process for the PUCT to appoint the three appraisers to do the valuation. And then that kicks off after thirty days, another one hundred and twenty days for those appraisals to be completed and discern, the value, the fair market value for rate making purposes based on the average of the three appraisers. Subsequent to that, we would file the sale transfer merger, post those appraisals being discerned and that kicks off that process.

Angie Storozynski, Analyst, Seaport: Okay. Okay. So, yeah, so we just basically have to wait for their assessment of value just to have any sense of what the rate base of the assets will be, I understand. Okay. And secondly, the update on the connections increase.

I mean, yes, it is strong, but it’s slower, seeing me a slower growth than what we saw in the past, at least based on the report or the chart that was included in your slides. Is it just the law of large numbers that the base is getting bigger and that’s why the growth off of the larger base is decelerating?

Anne Kelly, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, H2O America: Yeah, I think that’s primarily it, Angie, is that as you grow the business, the percent increases are going to be coming down each year, just because, as you mentioned, the law of large numbers. So that’s why we’ve kind of guided folks to look at the actual total number of increases over the past couple of years versus the percentage.

Angie Storozynski, Analyst, Seaport: Okay. And then one other question about, you know, that’s meaningfully accretive to the long term APS growth rate. I’m going to see what it means meaningfully. Is it a 100 dips, versus whatever the 6% to 7% range that you’re currently guiding to? Is it more than 100 basis points?

What would be considered meaningful?

Andrew Walters, Chief Executive Officer, H2O America: I think meaningful obviously can be in the eye of the beholder in terms of how you think about it. But when you start talking about percentages of a growth rate, 100 basis points would absolutely be a meaningful increase as an example. But we won’t comment on that until we move further along the line.

Angie Storozynski, Analyst, Seaport: Okay. And then one more question. So we’re hearing some opposition to the the Aquarian transaction in Connecticut. I mean, you’re just an observer of this issue in the state. I mean, do you have any general views about if you would be still interested in this asset if the current sale process were to fail?

Andrew Walters, Chief Executive Officer, H2O America: Look, I think the asset would be very strategic for our company from that perspective. We’ve made our bed, so to speak, in terms of where we’re heading right now with our Texas acquisition. That’s going to keep us busy for a bit. But yes, would that acquisition be strategic for us? It would be.

And the reason why it’s strategic is because it would be good for our customers and allow us to have a significantly lower rates that we would be able to charge customers at the end of the day. And that’s the part that’s unique about investor owned utility is those cost savings belong in the pockets of our customers as opposed to being able to go somewhere else.

Angie Storozynski, Analyst, Seaport: Thank you.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Jonathan Reeder with Wells Fargo.

Jonathan Reeder, Analyst, Wells Fargo: Hey, good afternoon team. How are you all doing today?

Andrew Walters, Chief Executive Officer, H2O America: Good afternoon, Jonathan.

Bruce Hawk, President and Chief Operating Officer, H2O America: Angie asked a couple of

Jonathan Reeder, Analyst, Wells Fargo: my other questions, but I wanted to say congrats on getting that Connecticut PFAS recovery mechanism in place. Just to understand a little bit of the nuances around it, does the 07/01/2025 effective date mean that any PFAS CapEx after that date can be recovered through the mechanism? Then further, what is the expected kind of approval process once the first filing is made in 2026?

Bruce Hawk, President and Chief Operating Officer, H2O America: Thank you, Jennifer, for that question. And I believe your comment is accurate in terms of it’s a pro forward recovery. We will be able to file, I believe it’s in July, or I’m sorry, January of the beginning of the year and recover that in 2026. And I think it’s very similar to the process that we have in our WCA in terms of recovery. So it’s a couple two, three month type of a review process for implementing it into rates.

Andrew Walters, Chief Executive Officer, H2O America: Yeah, I would just add that the unique part two, as opposed to WCA where they have to be in service and completed, this one takes us all the way to what we have spent. And I think that’s a unique addition. It helps further kind of reduce rate shock for customers. And there’s some really solid positives that we’re going to be able to bring to our customers by being able to put that investment in over time as opposed to big lumps they would otherwise see.

Bruce Hawk, President and Chief Operating Officer, H2O America: Yeah, just to add to that, Jonathan, it’s more of like a forward look recovery of spend versus in service to Andrew described. And that was a comment that was made in my prepared remarks. And that’s what that was intended to convey.

Jonathan Reeder, Analyst, Wells Fargo: Yeah, no, that that is a good little wrinkle to it, that it’s just on the dollar spent. What about the Texas, you know, hybrid test year law? Does it require the PUCT to adopt, you know, the future hybrid test year or, you know, could that still be a point of contention during the rate case process by either, you know, the commission itself or interveners?

Bruce Hawk, President and Chief Operating Officer, H2O America: Well, as you know, Jonathan, anytime you have a historic future or a hybrid, there’s always contention in what you file potentially. But the process kicks off in terms of the approval of the bill, but then there’s a rulemaking process that’ll go through. So the specifics of the procedures will be, a process that we go through with the PUCT, and, that will start in September.

Jonathan Reeder, Analyst, Wells Fargo: Okay. And that’ll will that figure out whether it’s future or hybrid test year? You’re saying, like, whether it’s even, like, a requirement that the commission approve that future test year?

Bruce Hawk, President and Chief Operating Officer, H2O America: The procedures will lay out the process for a hybrid or a future. I mean, we’ve already got established procedures for historic, but it’s up to the applicant to choose, the path forward for filing. So I believe it would be up to the applicant to choose the type of filing they wanna make and the law would allow it pursuant to the rules and procedures through the rulemaking through the commission.

Jonathan Reeder, Analyst, Wells Fargo: Okay, got it. Thank you. All right, appreciate the update and, yeah, congrats on a good Q2 and a very busy Q2.

Andrew Walters, Chief Executive Officer, H2O America: Thank you, Jonathan.

Conference Operator: That concludes today’s question and answer session. I’d like to turn the call back to Andrew Walters for closing remarks.

Andrew Walters, Chief Executive Officer, H2O America: Thank you again for joining us today. H2O America proudly leverages our national platform to support our distinct local operations, all united by a shared mission, delivering reliable service and high quality water to 1,600,000 people across four states. At the same time, we continue executing our growth strategy and delivering shareholder value, including our unwavering commitment to the dividend, which we have paid for more than eighty consecutive years. Our success is built on a culture of service and partnership. We value our customers, communities, and the environment, and capital providers.

And I couldn’t be prouder of our team, whose dedication makes it all possible. Ann, Bruce, I are always available for follow-up. We appreciate your interest in H2O America. Thank you, operator.

Conference Operator: This concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

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