Company Analysis

Middlesex Water Company (MSEX)

Nasdaq: MSEX · Water Supply · Iselin, NJ · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade5.1
◀ Past 5.7● Present 5.6▶ Future 3.8
1 est.

The grade of Middlesex Water Company

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.1/10
◀ Past5.725% of the headline
● Present5.645% of the headline
▶ Future3.830% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.7/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2025-03-04.

weight 45% of this tense · 25th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Middlesex Water Company's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2025-03-04); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2024-03-01) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
7.0/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+8.2% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 3 of 3.

weight 22% of this tense · 70th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Middlesex Water Company's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $166 million in fiscal 2023 to $195 million in fiscal 2025, up 8.2% a year; it rose in 2 of 2 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 3 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span8.2%bottom 46% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 14% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 39% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
9.1/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.8% a year. 42% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 4 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 91st percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Middlesex Water Company's diluted share count grew about 0.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 42% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $109 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 14% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.6/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.7/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 9%: 9¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 64%: owes 64¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 57th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Middlesex Water Company earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 64 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 32% of its family
  • return on equitytop 46% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
5.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 45% of 14 in its family; net margin 22%.

weight 33% of this tense · 55th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Middlesex Water Company's standing among 14 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $195 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 42% by size; a net margin of 22% ranks in the top 32%; revenue growth of 8.2% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the bottom 39% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$195Mtop 42% of its family
  • net margin22.0%top 32% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth8.2%bottom 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
5.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 45% of 13 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2024.

weight 22% of this tense · 55th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Middlesex Water Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Duchemin-Leslie, Nadine (President, CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-03-08, 2.7 years (bottom 27% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.4 years (top 27%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 35%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge7 in three years among 18 peopletop 35% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed7.4 yearstop 27% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record2.7 yearsbottom 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

3.8/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
6.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 32% of 14 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 68th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Middlesex Water Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $3 million against debt of $379 million leaves -27.5% of its assets as net cash, top 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 32.2% of revenue (top 25%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-27.5%top 39% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue32.2%top 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
1.6/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 16% of 14 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 16th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Middlesex Water Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 8.2% a year over the last three filed years against 8.2% over all 3, speeding up (bottom 25% of its family); the newest year grew 1.5% (bottom 18%); capital spending grew -2% a year (bottom 4%) (its annual reports). Middlesex Water Company reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Regulated at $183 million, Non Regulated at $13 million. 1 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 93% of revenue (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yearbottom 25% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth1.5%bottom 18% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-2.0%bottom 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
4.7/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

SI estimate 4.7/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 13 members with one.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
family median, 13 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Middlesex Water Company's expectations vs reality is put at 4.7 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 13 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton MSEX · research, not advice