United Utilities Group (UU.)

Sector:

Utilities

Index:

FTSE 100

1,022.50p
   
  • Change Today:
    -20.00p
  • 52 Week High: 1,125.00
  • 52 Week Low: 958.80
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 681.89m
  • Volume: 2,070,450
  • Market Cap: £6,972m
  • RiskGrade: 118

United Utilities fined £0.88m after taking 22bn litres from aquifer

By Frank Prenesti

Date: Wednesday 16 Aug 2023

LONDON (ShareCast) - (Sharecast News) - United Utilities has been fined £800,000 by Britain's Environment Agency after illegally abstracting 22bn litres of water from a vital aquifer in Lancashire and causing damage that "will take years to receover".
The company conducted the illegal extraction from the Fylde aquifer during a period of dry weather in 2018 and caused enough damage to have negatively affected river flows, the agency said in a statement on Wednesday.

It also led to a "significant decline in the water level available in the Fylde Aquifer".

Aquifers are rock or sediment that hold groundwater collected in empty spaces underground. They help keep river flow at healthy levels for plant and fish life.

Companies are under strict limits on the amount of water they can extract. UK water firms are under increasing scrutiny over the release of sewage into rivers, streams and the ocean while failing to fix leaks and paying out billions in dividends to shareholders.

United Utilities was prosecuted at Warrington magistrates court and fined on Tuesday after the Environment Agency found the company had taken more water than its abstraction licences allowed in the Franklaw and Broughton borehole complex. The company paid out £300m in dividends to shareholders after its annual results in May and made an operating profit of £440m.

Reporting by Frank Prenesti for Sharecast.com

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United Utilities Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 1,022.50p
Change Today -20.00p
% Change -1.92 %
52 Week High 1,125.00
52 Week Low 958.80
Volume 2,070,450
Shares Issued 681.89m
Market Cap £6,972m
RiskGrade 118

United Utilities Star Ratings

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Value
69.48% below the market average69.48% below the market average69.48% below the market average69.48% below the market average69.48% below the market average
66.67% below the sector average66.67% below the sector average66.67% below the sector average66.67% below the sector average66.67% below the sector average
Price Trend
3.65% below the market average3.65% below the market average3.65% below the market average3.65% below the market average3.65% below the market average
14.29% above the sector average14.29% above the sector average14.29% above the sector average14.29% above the sector average14.29% above the sector average
Income
0.13% above the market average0.13% above the market average0.13% above the market average0.13% above the market average0.13% above the market average
20% below the sector average20% below the sector average20% below the sector average20% below the sector average20% below the sector average
Growth
82.45% below the market average82.45% below the market average82.45% below the market average82.45% below the market average82.45% below the market average
100% below the sector average100% below the sector average100% below the sector average100% below the sector average100% below the sector average

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United Utilities Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Final Interim
Ex-Div 20-Jun-24 21-Dec-23
Paid 01-Aug-24 01-Feb-24
Amount 33.19p 16.59p

Trades for 31-Oct-2024

Time Volume / Share Price
16:39 8,703 @ 1,022.50p
16:39 1,123 @ 1,022.50p
16:39 1,053 @ 1,022.50p
16:35 1,820 @ 1,022.50p
16:35 1,153 @ 1,022.50p

United Utilities Key Personnel

Chair David Higgins
CFO Phil Aspin
CEO Louise Beardmore

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