Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the American States Water Company Conference Call discussing the company's first quarter 2026 results. This call is being recorded. If you would like to listen to the replay of this call, it will begin this afternoon at 5 p.m. Eastern Time and run through May 14th on the company's website at www.aswater.com. The slides that the company will be referring to are also available on the website. To ask a question, you may press star than 1 on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star than 2. This call will be limited to one hour. Presenting today from American States Water Company are Mr. Bob Sprouse, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Ms. Eva Tang, Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. As a reminder, certain matters discussed during the conference call may be forward-looking statements within the meeting of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees or assurances of any outcomes, financial results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements, and listeners are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon them. Forward-looking statements are subject to estimates and assumptions and known to unknown risk, uncertainties, and other factors. Listeners should review the company's description of the company's risk and uncertainties that could affect the forward-looking statements in our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements made on this conference call speak only as the date of this call and expect as required by law. the company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement. In addition, this conference call will include a discussion of certain measures that are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, in the United States and constitute non-GAAP financial measures under SEC rules. These non-GAAP financial measures are derived from concentrated financial information but are not presented in our financial statements that are prepared in accordance with GAAP. For more details, please refer to the press release. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Mr. Bob Sprouse, President and Chief Executive Officer of American States Water Company. Please go ahead, sir.
Six cents per share. as compared to $0.70 per share for the first quarter of 2025. $0.75 per share, compared to $0.03 per share revenues associated with advice letter capital. $0.13 per share for the quarter, compared to $0.13 per share, largely due to dollars when income segment increased by the electric segment of costs related to certain advice letter projects. Earnings per share bridge, comparing reported earnings per share for the first quarter of 2026, Quiddity on this slide, net cash provided by operating activity was $71.6 million for the first quarter of 2026. Largely related invested $42.1 million on company-funded capital projects. In the first quarter, the company-funded capital expenditure to reach $185 to $225 million.
Operator
Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star than 1 on your touchtone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then 2. And at this time we'll pause momentarily to assemble our roster. As there are no questions, this concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Bob Sprouse for any closing remarks. The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.
