NYSE:WATWaters Stock Price, Forecast & News

Waters' stock was trading at $184.10 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, WAT shares have increased by 12.4% and is now trading at $206.91. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Waters in the last year. There are currently 6 sell ratings and 4 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Sell." View analyst ratings for Waters.

Waters is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Waters.

Waters Co. (NYSE:WAT) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, April, 28th. The medical instruments supplier reported $1.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.39 by $0.24. The medical instruments supplier had revenue of $464.94 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $480.07 million. Waters had a return on equity of 1,937.83% and a net margin of 22.77%. The business's revenue was down 9.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.60 EPS. View Waters' earnings history.

10 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Waters' shares. Their forecasts range from $145.00 to $212.00. On average, they expect Waters' stock price to reach $176.38 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 14.8%. View analysts' price targets for Waters.

Headlines about WAT stock have been trending extremely negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog 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 coverage optimism score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the medical instruments supplier a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutWaters.

Some companies that are related to Waters include Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Illumina (ILMN), Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), PerkinElmer (PKI), BIO-TECHNE (TECH), Charles River Laboratories Intl. (CRL), Bruker (BRKR), Luminex (LMNX), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Fluidigm (FLDM), Harvard Bioscience (HBIO), aTyr Pharma (LIFE) and BG Medicine (BGMD). View all competitors.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Waters investors own include Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Honeywell International (HON), Home Depot (HD), CVS Health (CVS), Raytheon Technologies (RTX), Alibaba Group (BABA), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Walmart (WMT) and CSX (CSX).

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

Waters' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (9.33%), BlackRock Inc. (8.65%), Fundsmith LLP (7.68%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (7.54%), State Street Corp (4.66%) and Baillie Gifford & Co. (3.81%). Company insiders that own Waters stock include Christopher A Kuebler, Edward Conard, Elizabeth B Rae, Francis Kim, Ian King, Joann A Reed, Keeley A Aleman, Laurie H MD Glimcher, Mark T Beaudouin, Michael C Harrington, Michael F Silveira, Michael J Berendt, Robert G Carson, Terrence P Kelly and Thomas P Salice. View institutional ownership trends for Waters.

WAT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fundsmith LLP, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Mackenzie Financial Corp, APG Asset Management N.V., Deutsche Bank AG, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., and Morgan Stanley. Company insiders that have sold Waters company stock in the last year include Edward Conard, Elizabeth B Rae, Francis Kim, Ian King, Joann A Reed, Keeley A Aleman, Laurie H MD Glimcher, and Mark T Beaudouin. View insider buying and selling activity for Waters.

WAT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Schroder Investment Management Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Swiss National Bank, and Balyasny Asset Management LLC. View insider buying and selling activity 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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of WAT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $206.91.

Waters has a market capitalization of $12.81 billion and generates $2.41 billion in revenue each year. The medical instruments supplier earns $592.20 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.99 on an earnings per share basis. Waters employs 7,500 workers across the globe.

The official website for Waters is 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]