Valuation: Waters Corporation

Market Cap 36.79B 31.98B 29.85B 27.41B 51.68B 3,507B 52.58B 352B 138B 1,749B 138B 135B 5,769B P/E 2026 *
45.4x
P/E 2027 * 28.5x
Enterprise Value 40.84B 35.49B 33.14B 30.42B 57.36B 3,893B 58.36B 391B 153B 1,941B 153B 150B 6,403B EV / Sales 2026 *
6.34x
EV / Sales 2027 * 5.56x
Free-Float
99.89%
Yield 2026 *
-
Yield 2027 * -
1 day-0.68%
1 week+0.95%
Current month-0.68%
1 month-1.20%
3 months+22.02%
6 months-1.11%
Current year-1.34%
1 week 370.4
Extreme 370.3955
391.87
1 month 345.2
Extreme 345.205
391.87
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 133.35
Extreme 133.35
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
Date Insider Type Main position Quantity % Market Cap.
30/6/26 Free

Director

67 0.0001%
30/6/26 Free

Director

63 0.0001%
25/2/26 Free

Director

80 0.0001%
Change 5-day change 1-year change 3-year change Capi.($)
-0.68%+0.95%+29.08%+28.60% 36.79B
-0.05%+2.59%+23.97%+4.68% 212B
+1.29%+0.51%+0.21%-23.29% 139B
+6.25%+5.21%-22.29%+20.60% 133B
+3.64%+6.42%-54.06%-4.82% 70.19B
+3.20%+6.96%+11.96%+11.02% 51.14B
+6.10%+9.98%-15.77%-19.36% 50.09B
+1.03%+1.39%+23.17%+11.80% 39.48B
-3.38%+4.59%+109.34%+6.92% 29.92B
+2.51%+14.09%-0.17%-8.27% 31.5B
Average +0.88%+4.99%+10.54%+2.79% 79.28B
Weighted average by Cap. +0.92%+3.97%+4.34%+1.53%

Financials

2026 *2027 *
Net sales 6.44B 5.6B 5.22B 4.8B 9.04B 614B 9.2B 61.61B 24.13B 306B 24.19B 23.65B 1,010B 7.11B 6.18B 5.77B 5.29B 9.98B 677B 10.16B 68B 26.63B 338B 26.7B 26.1B 1,114B
Net income 755M 657M 613M 563M 1.06B 72.01B 1.08B 7.23B 2.83B 35.91B 2.84B 2.77B 118B 1.2B 1.04B 973M 893M 1.68B 114B 1.71B 11.47B 4.49B 56.97B 4.5B 4.4B 188B
Net Debt 4.05B 3.52B 3.28B 3.01B 5.68B 386B 5.78B 38.72B 15.16B 192B 15.2B 14.86B 634B 2.73B 2.37B 2.21B 2.03B 3.83B 260B 3.9B 26.1B 10.22B 130B 10.25B 10.02B 428B
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
7,900
Date Price Change Volume
03/08/26 USD 374.74 -0.68% 1,162,330
31/07/26 USD 377.31 -0.79% 715,255
30/07/26 USD 380.30 +0.22% 783,110
29/07/26 USD 379.48 -1.15% 723,095
28/07/26 USD 383.90 +3.42% 919,311
Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
AAA
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
BUY
Number of Analysts
24
Last Close Price
374.74USD
Average target price
413.26USD
Spread / Average Target
+10.28%

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