Valuation: Waters Corporation

Capitalization 33.51B 28.82B 26.38B 24.92B 46.06B 3,237B 46.8B 313B 122B 1,528B 126B 123B 5,322B P/E ratio 2026 *
36.4x
P/E ratio 2027 * 24.9x
Enterprise value 37.68B 32.4B 29.66B 28.02B 51.78B 3,639B 52.61B 352B 138B 1,718B 141B 138B 5,983B EV / Sales 2026 *
5.85x
EV / Sales 2027 * 5.12x
Free-Float
48.6%
Yield 2026 *
-
Yield 2027 * -
1 day-0.38%
1 week+2.09%
Current month+10.01%
1 month+1.48%
3 months+3.78%
6 months-13.66%
Current year-10.44%
1 week 323.85
Extreme 323.85
342.05
1 month 287.19
Extreme 287.19
357.45
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.($)
-0.36%+2.09%-2.07%+27.02% 33.51B
-1.09%-0.44%+12.05%-15.64% 168B
-2.30%+2.60%-19.72%+40.05% 159B
+0.23%+3.73%-8.63%-26.20% 121B
+0.43%+6.24%-45.63%+5.98% 84.23B
-0.20%+1.68%+8.68%-7.24% 47.77B
+1.12%+1.47%-29.08%-35.69% 44.42B
-0.49%-0.06%+3.93%-12.32% 32.15B
-0.68%+2.47%-15.59%-7.98% 30.44B
-2.12%-6.71%-30.81%-50.23% 27.52B
Average -0.53%+0.32%-12.69%-8.23% 74.81B
Weighted average by Cap. -0.71%+0.68%-10.89%-2.64%

Financials

2026 *2027 *
Net sales 6.44B 5.54B 5.07B 4.79B 8.85B 622B 8.99B 60.08B 23.51B 294B 24.16B 23.65B 1,022B 7.11B 6.11B 5.59B 5.28B 9.77B 686B 9.92B 66.31B 25.95B 324B 26.66B 26.1B 1,128B
Net income 840M 723M 661M 625M 1.15B 81.16B 1.17B 7.84B 3.07B 38.31B 3.15B 3.09B 133B 1.31B 1.13B 1.03B 975M 1.8B 127B 1.83B 12.23B 4.79B 59.76B 4.92B 4.81B 208B
Net Debt 4.16B 3.58B 3.28B 3.1B 5.72B 402B 5.81B 38.85B 15.2B 190B 15.62B 15.29B 661B 2.85B 2.45B 2.24B 2.12B 3.91B 275B 3.98B 26.57B 10.4B 130B 10.68B 10.46B 452B
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
21/05/26 340.03 $ -0.38% 50,382
20/05/26 341.32 $ +2.42% 904,296
19/05/26 333.26 $ +0.32% 781,064
18/05/26 332.19 $ +0.90% 833,657
15/05/26 329.22 $ -1.20% 856,359
Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
AAA
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
BUY
Number of Analysts
22
Last Close Price
341.32USD
Average target price
400.52USD
Spread / Average Target
+17.35%

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