Valuation: Waters Corporation

Capitalization 34.86B 29.62B 27.11B 25.58B 47.72B 3,292B 48.14B 322B 125B 1,581B 131B 128B 5,460B P/E ratio 2026 *
36.6x
P/E ratio 2027 * 26x
Enterprise value 39.13B 33.24B 30.42B 28.72B 53.56B 3,695B 54.04B 361B 141B 1,775B 147B 144B 6,128B EV / Sales 2026 *
6.08x
EV / Sales 2027 * 5.32x
Free-Float
48.6%
Yield 2026 *
-
Yield 2027 * -
1 day+1.32%
1 week+15.63%
Current month+14.84%
1 month+11.80%
3 months+8.23%
6 months-4.46%
Current year-6.50%
1 week 298.91
Extreme 298.91
356.99
1 month 287.19
Extreme 287.19
356.99
Current year 282.77
Extreme 282.77
408.67
1 year 275.05
Extreme 275.05
414.15
3 years 231.9
Extreme 231.9
423.56
5 years 231.9
Extreme 231.9
428.22
10 years 131.35
Extreme 131.35
428.22
Manager TitleAgeSince
Chief Executive Officer 55 01/09/2020
Director of Finance/CFO 50 12/05/2021
Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer 48 01/03/2018
Director TitleAgeSince
Director/Board Member 72 01/05/2006
Chairman 68 01/01/2020
Director/Board Member 67 01/09/2018
Change 5d. change 1-year change 3-years change Capi.($)
+1.32%+15.63%+3.22%+28.32% 34.86B
-1.99%-0.90%+15.35%-13.03% 173B
-0.76%-1.69%-16.11%+49.25% 159B
-2.56%-2.28%-9.79%-27.22% 121B
-4.67%-4.55%-47.57%+1.58% 80.16B
-3.38%-4.79%+8.52%-9.85% 46.04B
-0.85%-3.56%-28.52%-40.48% 44.18B
-2.55%+0.96%+8.13%-9.21% 32.67B
+0.06%+1.31%-23.83%-43.92% 30.34B
-0.06%+0.85%-15.62%-10.54% 29.99B
Average -1.54%-0.27%-10.62%-7.51% 75.16B
Weighted average by Cap. -1.84%-1.16%-8.78%-1.03%

Financials

2026 *2027 *
Net sales 6.44B 5.47B 5.01B 4.72B 8.81B 608B 8.89B 59.37B 23.14B 292B 24.15B 23.64B 1,008B 7.1B 6.03B 5.52B 5.21B 9.71B 670B 9.8B 65.44B 25.51B 322B 26.62B 26.06B 1,111B
Net income 892M 758M 694M 655M 1.22B 84.26B 1.23B 8.23B 3.21B 40.47B 3.35B 3.28B 140B 1.3B 1.1B 1.01B 952M 1.78B 122B 1.79B 11.96B 4.66B 58.82B 4.86B 4.76B 203B
Net Debt 4.27B 3.62B 3.32B 3.13B 5.84B 403B 5.89B 39.35B 15.34B 194B 16.01B 15.67B 668B 2.86B 2.43B 2.23B 2.1B 3.92B 270B 3.96B 26.42B 10.3B 130B 10.75B 10.52B 449B
Logo Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation specializes in the conception, the manufacturing and the marketing of analytical instruments. Net sales break down by activity as follows: - sale of instruments and analytical systems (62.3%): chromatographic analysis instruments (56% of net sales; instruments high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry), chemistry consumables (30.6%; including columns chemical separation) and thermal analysis, rheometry and calorimetry instruments (13.4%); - services (37.7%): support services, training, etc. Net sales are distributed by market between pharmaceutical (58.1%), industrial (30.7%), academic institutions and governmental agencies (11.2%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (31.6%), Americas (6.2%), China (13.4%), Japan (5.3%), Asia (14%) and Europe (29.5%).
Employees
16,000
Date Price Change Volume
08/05/26 355.13 $ +1.32% 1,814,064
07/05/26 350.49 $ +0.27% 2,014,720
06/05/26 349.53 $ +1.98% 1,865,311
05/05/26 342.75 $ +13.54% 2,131,047
04/05/26 301.88 $ -1.71% 1,025,878
Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
AAA
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
OUTPERFORM
Number of Analysts
21
Last Close Price
355.13USD
Average target price
398.38USD
Spread / Average Target
+12.18%

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