Healthcare / Diagnostics & ResearchUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Fair value pending

Upside to midpoint

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Based on latest report

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Data quality and model convergence

Market cap

34.9B

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Market data

Live price

Current market quote for this ticker.

Current price

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Calendar

Next earnings

Upcoming earnings date and setup when available.

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E23.7

P25 12.3P50 18.4P75 33.1

Trailing P/E51.6

P25 14.9P50 23.2P75 38.5

ROE5.2

P25 -105.6P50 -46.5P75 -3.1

ROIC6.4

P25 -63.1P50 -27.3P75 0.5

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Indicator catalog

All WAT market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Currency

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Showing 257 of 257 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001000697
Company name	Waters Corporation
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	941848103
Employees	7,900
Employees Change	300%
Employees Change Percent	3.95
Enterprise value	$39.6B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500
Industry	Diagnostics & Research
IPO Date	1995-11-16
Isin	US9418481035
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$34.9B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$355
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	477,251.39x
Sector	Healthcare
Sic	3826
Symbol	WAT
Website	https://www.waters.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	1.29%
EV Earnings	88.1x
EV Sales Forward	5.77x
EV/EBIT	45.08x
EV/EBITDA	31.87x
EV/FCF	150.16x
EV/Sales	10.51x
FCF yield	0.76%
Forward P/E	23.66x
P/B ratio	1.91x
P/E ratio	51.57x
P/S ratio	9.25x
PE Ratio10 Y	73.64x
PE Ratio3 Y	33.54x
PE Ratio5 Y	31.69x
PEG ratio	2.09x
PS Forward	5.08x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	23.31%
EBITDA Margin	32.97%
FCF margin	7%
Gross margin	57.97%
Gross Profit	$2.2B
Gross Profit Growth	23.61%
Gross Profit Growth Q	80.28%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	8.33%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	8.42%
Net Income	$449.6M
Net Income Growth	-31.57%
Net Income Growth Years	1%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-13.26%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-6.11%
Pretax Margin	13.89%
Profit Margin	11.93%
Profit Per Employee	$56,915
Profitable Years	28
ROA	3.77
Roa5y	14.31
ROE	5.21
Roe5y	108.6
ROIC	6.4
Roic5y	35.34

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	10.34%
Cagr15y	9.05%
Cagr1y	2.8%
Cagr20y	10.81%
Cagr3y	6.16%
Cagr5y	2.45%
EPS Growth	-37.49
EPS Growth Years	1
EPS Growth3 Y	-15.72
EPS Growth5 Y	-6.96
FCF Growth	-57.4%
FCF Growth3 Y	-14.89%
FCF Growth5 Y	-17.65%
OCF Growth	-48.66%
OCF Growth10 Y	-3.69%
OCF Growth3 Y	-13.91%
OCF Growth5 Y	-14.59%
Revenue Growth	26.38x
Revenue Growth Q	91.48x
Revenue Growth Quarters	6x
Revenue Growth Years	2x
Revenue Growth3 Y	8.33x
Revenue Growth5 Y	8.49x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.26
Assets	$24.5B
Cash	$462M
Current Assets	$3.7B
Debt	$5.2B
Debt EBITDA	$4.2
Debt Equity	$0.34
Debt FCF	$19.77
Equity	$15.3B
Interest Coverage	8.33
Liabilities	$9.2B
Long Term Assets	$20.8B
Net Cash	$-4.8B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-13.63
Net Debt EBITDA	$3.82
Net Debt Equity	$0.31
Net Debt FCF	$18.02
Tangible Book Value	$-2.8B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-34.14
WACC	9.38

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Inventory Turnover	1.58
Working Capital	$3.7B
Working Capital Turnover	$1.68

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-9.55%
Dividend Yield	0%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	167.4%
1Y total return	2.8%
200-day SMA	336.1
3Y total return	19.66%
50-day SMA	311
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	12.87%
All Time High	428.2
All Time High Change	-17.07%
All Time High Date	2021-09-08
All Time Low	3.31
All Time Low Change	10,619.29%
All Time Low Date	1995-11-28
ATR	14.03
Beta	1.14
Beta1y	0.98
Beta2y	0.69
Ch YTD	-6.5
High	357
High52	414.2
High52 Date	2025-11-25
High52ch	-14.25%
Low	339.2
Low52	275.1
Low52 Date	2025-08-08
Low52ch	29.12%
Ma50ch	14.18%
Premarket Change Percent	-0.28
Premarket Price	$350
Premarket Volume	118
Price vs 200-day SMA	5.65%
RSI	66.71
RSI Monthly	52.74
RSI Weekly	54.44
Sharpe ratio	0.16x
Sortino ratio	0.37
Total Return	-9.55%
Tr YTD	-6.5
Tr15y	266.61%
Tr1m	15.54%
Tr1w	15.63%
Tr3m	-6.86%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	16
Analyst Count Top	1
Analyst Price Target Top	$385
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$2.31
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	2.67
Earnings Revenue Estimate	1,202,595,696x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	81.74x
Operating Income	$878.8M
Operating Income Growth	3.98
Operating Income Growth Q	-2.47
Operating Income Growth3 Y	1.02
Operating Income Growth5 Y	2.84
Operating margin	23.31
Price target	$386
Price Target Change	$8.73
Price Target Change Top	$8.41

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	98,023,538%
Float Percent	99.86%
Net Borrowing	-220,000,000
Shares Insiders	0.08%
Shares Institutions	77.84%
Shares Out	98,165,491
Shares Qo Q	37.44%
Shares Yo Y	9.55%
Short Float	3.81%
Short Ratio	3.89
Short Shares	3.8

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$202.7M
Average Volume	1,114,277.85x
Bv Per Share	186.2
CAPEX	$-125.7M
Ch10y	167.4
Ch15y	266.6
Ch1m	15.54
Ch1w	15.63
Ch1y	2.8
Ch20y	679.3
Ch3m	-6.86
Ch3y	19.66
Ch5y	12.87
Ch6m	-4.46
Change	1.32%
Change From Open	1.72
Close	350.5
Days Gap	-0.39
Depreciation Amortization	364,237,000
Dollar Volume	644,220,380.3
Earnings Date	2026-05-05
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$878.8M
EBITDA	$1.2B
EPS	$6.89
F Score	3
FCF	$263.8M
FCF EV Yield	0.67x
FCF Per Share	$2.69
Financing CF	-277,205,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,958
Goodwill	9,317,000,000
Graham Number	169.84017
Graham Upside	-52.18
Income Tax	$74.2M
Investing CF	-31,253,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-05
Last Report Date	2026-04-04
Last Split Date	2000-08-28
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-23
Lynch Fair Value	$34.43
Lynch Upside	-90.3
Ma150	349.4
Ma150ch	1.63%
Ma20	323.2
Ma20ch	9.88%
Net CF	78,476,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-08-03
Open	349.1
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	132.1
P OCF Ratio	89.49
Position In Range	89.57
Ppne	1,520,000,000
Pre Close	350.5
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$28.05
Relative Volume	1.63x
Revenue	3,770,286,000x
SBC By Revenue	1.62x
Share Based Comp	61,127,000
Tax By Revenue	1.97x
Tax Rate	14.17%
Tr20y	679.31%
Tr6m	-4.46%
Us State	Massachusetts
Volume	1,814,041

Fast facts

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Moat score

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Forward P/E

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Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Research pending

Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.

Income

Does WAT pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

WAT stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns WAT?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+77.8%

Float: +99.9% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.1%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

WAT momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

66.7

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+5.7%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.14

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

0.16

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Questions

About WAT

Hub-level FAQ points readers to the deeper analysis pages.

What is the current WAT stock rating?

Waters Corporation is currently shown with the latest rating in the latest report. The hub links directly to the full analysis surface where the rating, fair-value bridge, risks, and scorecard are documented together.

Where can I read the full WAT analysis?

The full report lives at /stocks/WAT/analysis. The bare ticker page is a product hub that summarizes the latest read and sends readers into the relocated analysis tabs without making the analysis surface depend on the hub.

What fair-value range is used for WAT?

The latest report frames WAT around the latest fair-value range. Treat that range as the entry point, then check the valuation, sensitivity, and bear-case tabs before making an investment decision.

How often is the WAT page updated?

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