Waters Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:WAT)

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

Waters declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Tuesday, April 24th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $3,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy up to 18.2% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Waters Co. (NYSE:WAT) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July, 30th. The medical instruments supplier reported $2.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $2.11 by $0.03. The medical instruments supplier earned $599.20 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $601.46 million. Waters had a return on equity of 50.64% and a net margin of 24.09%. The company's revenue was up .5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.95 EPS. View Waters' Earnings History.

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

Waters updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 30th. The company provided EPS guidance of $8.95-9.10 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $9.08.

12 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Waters' shares. Their predictions range from $177.00 to $260.00. On average, they anticipate Waters' share price to reach $209.7288 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Waters.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Waters in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Waters.

Media stories about WAT stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Waters earned a media sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the medical instruments supplier a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Waters.

Waters saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,941,700 shares, an increase of 18.0% from the July 31st total of 4,186,200 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 577,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 8.6 days. Currently, 7.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Waters' Current Options Chain.

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

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Waters investors own include Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Home Depot (HD), Honeywell International (HON), Alibaba Group (BABA), Raytheon (RTN), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Procter & Gamble (PG) and QUALCOMM (QCOM).

Waters' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (11.40%), BlackRock Inc. (8.03%), BlackRock Inc. (8.03%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (6.36%), Baillie Gifford & Co. (3.75%) and Janus Henderson Group PLC (2.55%). Company insiders that own Waters stock include Christopher A Kuebler, David Terricciano, Elizabeth B Rae, Eugene G Cassis, Joann A Reed, Mark T Beaudouin, Michael C Harrington, Michael F Silveira, Michael J Berendt, Robert G Carson, 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 Vanguard Group Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Morgan Stanley, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Pictet Asset Management Ltd. and Renaissance Technologies LLC. Company insiders that have sold Waters company stock in the last year include Christopher A Kuebler, Elizabeth B Rae, Mark T Beaudouin, Michael C Harrington, Michael F Silveira, Michael J Berendt, Robert G Carson, Terrence P Kelly and Thomas P Salice. View Insider Buying and Selling for Waters.

WAT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Mackenzie Financial Corp, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Invesco Ltd., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board, Schroder Investment Management Group, Impax Asset Management Group plc and First Trust Advisors LP. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WAT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $228.70.

Waters has a market capitalization of $15.27 billion and generates $2.42 billion in revenue each year. The medical instruments supplier earns $593.79 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.29 on an earnings per share basis. Waters employs 7,200 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Waters.

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]