WAT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Waters | NYSE:WAT)

Water sells liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis tools. These analytical instruments provide essential information on various products, such as their molecular structures and physical properties, to help clients enhance the health and well-being of end users. As a percentage of sales in 2023, Waters generated 57% from biopharmaceutical customers, 31% from industrial clients, and 12% from academic/government institutions.

Waters trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WAT.

As of March 5, 2025, WAT stock price climbed to $374.57 with 219,160 million shares trading.

WAT has a beta of 0.52, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. WAT has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

WAT has a market cap of $22.25 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Waters reported $873 million in Revenue and $4.10 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $16 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.

In the last 3 years, WAT traded as high as $423.56 and as low as $231.90.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that WAT belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, VUG, SPY.

WAT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +8.0%, while SPY returned +14.2%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in WAT shares. However, WAT has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning -4.3% and -0.5%, while SPY returned -4.6% and -5.5%, respectively. This indicates WAT has been having a stronger performance recently.

WAT support price is $361.41 and resistance is $374.69 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that WAT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.