In last trading session, Waters Corp (NYSE:WAT) saw 0.81 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.11. Company’s recent per share price level of $352.41 trading at -$2.5 or -0.70% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $20.97B. That closing price of WAT’s stock is at a discount of -20.19% from its 52-week high price of $423.56 and is indicating a premium of 20.76% from its 52-week low price of $279.24. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.51 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 543.92K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Waters Corp (WAT), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.35. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 4 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Waters Corp (NYSE:WAT) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.70%, in the last five days WAT remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 06/26/25 when the stock touched $352.41 price level, adding 1.81% to its value on the day. Waters Corp’s shares saw a change of 22.80% in year-to-date performance and have moved 2.85% in past 5-day. Waters Corp (NYSE:WAT) showed a performance of -0.61% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 1.72 million shares which calculate 3.54 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 387 to the stock, which implies a rise of 8.94% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 374 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 400. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -6.13% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -6.13% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 4.28% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 9.03% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 9.98%.
Waters Corp (NYSE:WAT)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.16% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 98.20 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 98.35%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 98.20% institutions for Waters Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at WAT for having 7.02 million shares of worth $2.04 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 11.8331 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 5.65 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.5284 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.64 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 1.88 shares of worth $661.56 million or 3.15% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 1.65 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $581.69 million in the company or a holder of 2.77% of company’s stock.
