NYSE:WAT - Waters Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Waters announced that its board has initiated a share repurchase plan on Tuesday, April 24th 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $3,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 18.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Waters Co. (NYSE:WAT) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 23rd. The medical instruments supplier reported $1.92 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.90 by $0.02. The medical instruments supplier had revenue of $578.02 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $587.43 million. Waters had a net margin of 2.32% and a return on equity of 30.68%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 2.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.77 EPS. View Waters' Earnings History.

Waters is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Waters.

Waters updated its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Tuesday, October, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.55-2.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.69. Waters also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $8.00-8.10 EPS.

15 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Waters' shares. Their forecasts range from $185.00 to $230.00. On average, they anticipate Waters' share price to reach $206.0769 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Waters.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Waters in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Waters.

News articles about WAT stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Waters earned a news sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the medical instruments supplier a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is very likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.

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

Waters' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.41%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (5.96%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (6.00%), Baillie Gifford & Co. (3.39%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (2.76%) and Veritas Asset Management LLP (2.14%). Company insiders that own Waters stock include 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 Bessemer Group Inc., Nomura Asset Management Co. Ltd., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Smith Asset Management Group LP, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Renaissance Technologies LLC and Mackenzie Financial Corp. 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, Terrence P Kelly, Thomas P Salice and William J Miller. View Insider Buying and Selling for Waters.

WAT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Select Equity Group L.P., Nordea Investment Management AB, Man Group plc, AQR Capital Management LLC, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Nuance Investments LLC and Jefferies Group 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 $199.57.

Waters has a market capitalization of $14.84 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.

The official website for Waters is http://www.waters.com.

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]