NYSE:WAT - Waters Stock Price, Price Target & More

Waters trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WAT."

Waters announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback program on Tuesday, April 24th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $3,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 18.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Waters Co. (NYSE:WAT) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April, 24th. The medical instruments supplier reported $1.59 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.55 by $0.04. The medical instruments supplier had revenue of $530.70 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $534.17 million. Waters had a net margin of 1.14% and a return on equity of 25.80%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 6.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $1.46 earnings per share. View Waters' Earnings History.

Waters is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 24th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Waters.

Waters updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, April, 24th. The company provided EPS guidance of $8.10-8.30 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $8.19.

17 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Waters' stock. Their forecasts range from $180.00 to $230.00. On average, they expect Waters' stock price to reach $206.5333 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Waters.

Some companies that are related to Waters include Illumina (ILMN), Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class A Common Stock (BIO), Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Class B (BIO.B), PerkinElmer (PKI), Integra Lifesciences (IART), Bruker (BRKR), Coherent (COHR), Horiba (HRIBF), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Quanterix (QTRX), Fluidigm (FLDM) and Harvard Bioscience (HBIO).

Headlines about WAT stock have trended somewhat negative recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Waters earned a coverage optimism score of -0.06 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the medical instruments supplier an impact score of 44.13 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Waters' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.20%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (6.33%), Baillie Gifford & Co. (3.29%), Veritas Asset Management LLP (2.50%), Northern Trust Corp (1.38%) and Franklin Resources Inc. (1.14%). Company insiders that own Waters stock include Arthur G Caputo, Christopher A Kuebler, David Terricciano, Elizabeth B Rae, Eugene G Cassis, Ian King, Joann A Reed, Laurie H MD Glimcher, Mark T Beaudouin, Michael C Harrington, Michael F Silveira, Michael J Berendt, Rohit Khanna, Terrence P Kelly, Thomas P Salice and William J Miller. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Waters.

WAT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Veritas Asset Management LLP, Baillie Gifford & Co., Schroder Investment Management Group, Boston Partners, Millennium Management LLC, Swiss National Bank and American Century Companies Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Waters company stock in the last year include Christopher A Kuebler, David Terricciano, Elizabeth B Rae, Eugene G Cassis, Joann A Reed, Mark T Beaudouin, Michael C Harrington, Michael F Silveira, Rohit Khanna, Terrence P Kelly, Thomas P Salice and William J Miller. View Insider Buying and Selling for Waters.

WAT stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Citigroup Inc., Bamco Inc. NY, Summit Trail Advisors LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Royal Bank of Canada, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board and Champlain Investment Partners LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Waters.

Shares of WAT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WAT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $192.99.

Waters has a market capitalization of $15.28 billion and generates $2.31 billion in revenue each year. The medical instruments supplier earns $20.31 million in net income (profit) each year or $7.49 on an earnings per share basis. Waters employs 7,000 workers across the globe.

Waters' mailing address is 34 MAPLE STREET, MILFORD MA, 01757. The medical instruments supplier can be reached via phone at 508-478-2000 or via email at [email protected]