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WAT NYSE

Waters Corporation
1W: +5.0% 1M: +5.2% 3M: +18.8% YTD: +19.4% 1Y: +28.2% 3Y: +80.7% 5Y: +31.1%
$469.64
+13.66 (+3.00%)
 
Weekly Expected Move ±3.8%
$419 $436 $454 $471 $488
NYSE · Healthcare · Medical - Diagnostics & Research · Tech Score Strong Buy · Power 66 · $44.8B mcap · 98M float · 0.851% daily turnover · Short 65% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: lower than 76% of companies Debt: 10.5% of company value Bonds: $314.4M held by 260 funds, 67 bp over Treasuries → details ▾
Of US companies ranked in the safest four tenths, about 1 in 3,500 filed for bankruptcy within a year (2020-2025).
If the stock fell to about $3.79 (down 99.2%), Waters Corporation would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $5.25B against a stock market value of $44.77B.
Distance to default 8.80 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-26, balance sheet 2026-07-04, debt counted $2.44B (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 35.2%; Altman Z'' 3.66. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
Bond figures are fund-reported marks (SEC N-PORT) as of Jul 2026. How these are computed.
#6 of 91
Medical - Diagnostics & Research
Healthcare · Large Cap · 19 peers
Market Share
5.2%
Top 4 Concentration: 53.1%

Technical Signal Map

19 Bullish
0 Neutral
1 Bearish

Peer Comparison

Symbol Mkt Cap P/E ROE % ROIC % Net Mgn % Rev Grw % Piotroski Signal 1Y Ret %
WAT Waters Corporation $45B 114.0 1.9 1.5 -8.3 52.5 5 BULLISH 28.2
LH Labcorp Holdings Inc. $27B 26.9 11.7 8.6 8.0 6.4 8 BULLISH 17.4
MEDP Medpace Holdings, Inc. $19B 36.7 117.9 1953.7 19.2 20.4 9 BULLISH 13.4
CRL Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. $17B -73.3 -7.7 6.9 -0.1 -0.7 4 BULLISH 87.0
QGEN Qiagen N.V. $10B 25.8 11.9 11.2 19.3 3.0 8 BULLISH 2.1
DHR Danaher Corporation $162B 37.9 8.3 6.3 18.8 5.5 7 BULLISH 5.4
MTD Mettler-Toledo International Inc. $33B 37.5 -736.4 46.7 22.7 6.9 8 BULLISH 16.2
ICLR ICON Public Limited Company $14B 42.7 3.5 5.5 3.5 2.0 6 BULLISH 2.1
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. $44B 39.5 74.2 46.5 27.8 12.8 9 BULLISH -10.7
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. $249B 36.2 13.4 8.6 14.2 8.3 8 BULLISH 19.8
NTRA Natera, Inc. $58B -297.1 -12.5 -23.6 -8.9 37.8 6 BULLISH 107.6
IQV IQVIA Holdings Inc. $46B 33.0 21.7 33.3 7.9 8.8 9 BULLISH 24.4
DGX Quest Diagnostics Incorporated $27B 23.6 15.2 10.2 10.1 9.1 8 BULLISH 32.6
RVTY Revvity, Inc. $18B 76.0 3.2 3.5 7.1 5.5 6 BULLISH 64.4
BMXXY bioMérieux S.A. $12B 22.6 11.2 8.9 11.5 -3.5 7 BULLISH -28.0
ERFSF Eurofins Scientific SE $17B 28.5 12.8 4.6 8.2 3.3 6 BULLISH 33.0
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $41B 51.2 32.4 18.2 17.9 4.9 7 LEAN BULL 171.1
A Agilent Technologies, Inc. $49B 34.6 21.0 14.9 19.3 8.6 7 LEAN BULL 19.3
GH Guardant Health, Inc. $23B -49.9 171.6 -88.3 -35.9 42.7 6 LEAN BULL 149.8
WUXAY WuXi AppTec Co., Ltd. $68B 15.4 30.2 35.4 39.1 25.0 8 BEARISH 85.4

Profile Radar

Valuation vs Profitability

Performance Comparison

Industry Market Share

WAT vs Benchmarks

ROIC
WAT
1.5
Industry
-0.1
Gross Margin
WAT
44.6
Industry
48.6
Op Margin
WAT
-5.2
Industry
-9.4
Net Margin
WAT
-8.3
Industry
-9.1
Sector
9.8
Revenue Growth
WAT
52.5
Sector
9.4
P/E Ratio
WAT
114.0
Sector
29.7
ROE
WAT
1.9
Sector
11.5
Piotroski F
WAT
5.0
Sector
6.0

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