Valuation: Waters Corporation

Market Cap 40.69B 34.93B 32.78B 29.94B 56.5B 3,881B 56.78B 388B 150B 1,958B 153B 149B 6,485B P/E 2026 *
72.5x
P/E 2027 * 35.8x
Enterprise Value 44.72B 38.38B 36.03B 32.9B 62.1B 4,265B 62.4B 426B 165B 2,152B 168B 164B 7,127B EV / Sales 2026 *
6.91x
EV / Sales 2027 * 6.06x
Free-Float
48.61%
Yield 2026 *
-
Yield 2027 * -
1 day-0.07%
1 week-0.40%
Current month+9.77%
1 month+10.54%
3 months+22.30%
6 months+28.29%
Current year+9.04%
1 week 396
Extreme 396
418.48
1 month 370.4
Extreme 370.3955
421.74
Current year 282.77
Extreme 282.77
421.74
1 year 282.77
Extreme 282.77
421.74
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 68 01/09/2018
Date Insider Type Main position Quantity % Market Cap.
6/8/26 Fiscal year

Director

10,878 0.0111%
30/6/26 Free

Director

67 0.0001%
30/6/26 Free

Director

63 0.0001%
Change 5-day change 1-year change 3-year change Capi.($)
-0.07%-0.40%+39.86%+51.51% 40.72B
+0.89%+3.29%+29.73%+17.01% 232B
-0.28%+1.83%+4.42%-15.72% 152B
-0.38%-6.86%-21.90%+24.49% 131B
-3.39%-7.38%-54.72%-5.10% 72.26B
-1.11%-1.80%-16.89%-13.58% 51.57B
-0.10%-1.63%+11.70%+19.18% 52.38B
+0.20%-0.21%+31.09%+29.58% 43.71B
-0.07%+9.68%+127.73%+42.23% 33.97B
-0.38%+2.19%-17.35%+46.41% 34.13B
Average -0.47%+1.01%+13.37%+19.60% 84.42B
Weighted average by Cap. -0.24%+0.31%+8.55%+13.18%

Financials

2026 *2027 *
Net sales 6.47B 5.55B 5.21B 4.76B 8.98B 617B 9.02B 61.66B 23.9B 311B 24.28B 23.76B 1,031B 7.13B 6.12B 5.75B 5.25B 9.91B 680B 9.95B 68.01B 26.36B 343B 26.78B 26.2B 1,137B
Net income 579M 497M 467M 426M 804M 55.25B 808M 5.52B 2.14B 27.87B 2.17B 2.13B 92.31B 1.18B 1.02B 953M 870M 1.64B 113B 1.65B 11.28B 4.37B 56.92B 4.44B 4.34B 189B
Net Debt 4.03B 3.46B 3.25B 2.96B 5.59B 384B 5.62B 38.41B 14.89B 194B 15.13B 14.8B 642B 2.56B 2.19B 2.06B 1.88B 3.55B 244B 3.57B 24.38B 9.45B 123B 9.6B 9.39B 407B
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
26/08/26 USD 414.17 -0.07% 426,638
25/08/26 USD 414.44 +0.90% 631,818
24/08/26 USD 410.75 +0.01% 600,298
21/08/26 USD 410.70 +1.49% 816,932
20/08/26 USD 404.69 -2.68% 1,233,801
Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
AAA
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
BUY
Number of Analysts
24
Last Close Price
414.17USD
Average target price
436.00USD
Spread / Average Target
+5.27%

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