Waters (WAT) Stock Price & Analysis
WAT Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- MXN 8,369.91 - MXN 9,000.00
- 52-Week Range
- MXN 5,046.61 - MXN 9,000.00
- Previous Close
- MXN 7,819.40
- Volume
- 0
- Average Volume (3M)
- 0
- Market Cap
- MXN 854.31B
- Enterprise Value
- MXN 42.16B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- MXN 539.00M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- MXN 5.25B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 115.1
- Beta
- 0.23
- Next Earnings
- Nov 03, 2026 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 75.21
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- N/A
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Recurring Installed-base Revenue
The combination of instrument sales with recurring consumables, service, and software revenue creates an installed-base monetization model. Once customers standardize workflows on Waters platforms, repeat purchases can support revenue visibility and deepen customer relationships over multiple years.
Raised Growth And Earnings Outlook
Raised full-year guidance indicates management sees sufficient demand and execution capacity to deliver stronger growth than previously expected. The outlook combines organic expansion with higher earnings, providing a constructive foundation for performance over the next several quarters.
Cash Generation And Cost Savings
Positive operating and free cash flow gives Waters internal funding for investment, integration, and shareholder or balance-sheet priorities. Planned cost savings add potential operating leverage, which could strengthen cash generation if revenue growth continues.
Bears Say
Material Margin Deterioration
The sharp decline in profitability shows that recent revenue growth has not translated proportionally into earnings. Persistently lower margins would reduce cash available for reinvestment and make future results more dependent on successful cost actions and favorable business mix.
Slower Instrument Replacement Cycle
A slower replacement cadence can lengthen the interval between major capital-equipment purchases, limiting the pace of instrument revenue and delaying adoption of newer platforms. This may also constrain the expansion of the consumables and service base tied to new placements.
China And Contract Remediation Headwinds
Weakness in China can pressure demand across several businesses, while contract remediation creates execution and revenue risk until completed. Together, these issues can distract management, weigh on regional growth, and complicate the conversion of acquired operations into stable earnings.
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Company Description
Waters
Waters Corporation is a global leader in specialized measurement, delivering analytical solutions across Asia, the Americas, and Europe. The company operates through two main divisions: Waters and TA. Under its Waters segment, it engineers, manufactures, sells, and provides support for high and ultra-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (MS) systems. This includes essential consumables like chromatography columns and comprehensive post-warranty service plans. The TA segment focuses on designing, producing, selling, and servicing instruments for thermal analysis, rheometry, and calorimetry. Additionally, Waters develops and supplies sophisticated software that integrates with both its own instruments and those from other manufacturers. The company's advanced MS technology plays a crucial role in various applications, such as drug discovery and development (including clinical trial assessments), analyzing proteins involved in disease processes, ensuring nutritional safety, and conducting environmental testing. Its thermal analysis, rheometry, and calorimetry instruments are vital for assessing the suitability and stability of a wide range of materials, including fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, water, polymers, metals, and viscous liquids. These instruments support diverse sectors like industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, healthcare products, and life science research. Waters' extensive client base spans the life sciences, pharmaceutical, biochemical, industrial, nutritional safety, environmental, academic, and governmental sectors, where its products are instrumental in research and development, quality assurance, and general laboratory operations. Established in 1958, Waters Corporation is headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts.
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Medical - Diagnostics & Research
- CEO
- Udit Batra
- Employees
- 7,900
- Website
- www.waters.com
- Address
- 34 Maple Street, Milford, MA, 01757, US
Waters (WAT) Earnings & Revenues
WAT Company Deck
WAT Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call conveys a strongly positive operational and financial momentum: revenue beats, multiple high-impact product launches, accelerating performance in the acquired BD businesses (mid-single-digit growth and improving quarter-to-quarter), completed cost actions with significant run-rate savings, and raised full-year guidance. Offsetting risks are notable but manageable in the near term — acquisition accounting produced a GAAP loss, FX and China/DRG-related headwinds pressured some reported results, and integration-related cash outflows and contract remediation remain work in progress. Taken together, the highlights (organic growth outperformance, raised guidance, product-driven replacement opportunities, and meaningful cost synergies) materially outweigh the lowlights, though execution in China, reagent contract remediation and FX remain watch points.
View all MX:WAT earnings summariesWAT Net sales Breakdown
- 34.81% Waters instrument systems
- 19.95% Chemistry consumables
- 34.13% Waters service
- 7.70% TA instrument systems
- 3.41% TA service
WAT Stock 12 Month Forecast
Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 18 | 1 | 3 |
| Technical Analysis | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| Moving Averages | 12 | 0 | 0 |
