Waters is a diagnostic & research company located in Massachusetts, United States, which is part of the Healthcare sector, and is traded under the ticker WAT on the NYSE exchange.
Waters stock last closed at $299.96, up 0.6% from the previous day, and has decreased 7.74% in one year. It has overperformed other stocks in the Diagnostics & Research industry by 0.06 percentage points. Waters stock is currently +12.93% from its 52-week low of $265.61, and -18.71% from its 52-week high of $369.00.
At the moment, there are 58.94M WAT shares outstanding. The market capitalization of WAT is $17.68B. In the last 24 hours, 367,213 WAT shares were traded.
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Out of 6 Wall Street analysts who monitor WAT, the consensus analyst rating on WAT is a Hold
It's important to note that analyst forecasts are not recommendations, nor are they financial advice.
Patrick B Donnelly, a top 5% analyst from Citigroup maintains WAT with a hold rating and raises their WAT price target from $325.00 to $340.00, on Feb 16, 2023.
Timothy Daley, a top 33% analyst from Wells Fargo maintains WAT with a hold rating and raises their WAT price target from $320.00 to $345.00, on Feb 16, 2023.
Catherine Ramsey, a bottom 20% analyst from Baird maintains WAT with a hold rating and raises their WAT price target from $334.00 to $345.00, on Feb 16, 2023.
Luke Sergott, a bottom 2% analyst from Barclays maintains WAT with a strong buy rating and raises their WAT price target from $340.00 to $380.00, on Jan 24, 2023.
Puneet Souda, a bottom 1% analyst from SVB Leerink maintains WAT with a hold rating and raises their WAT price target from $320.00 to $352.00, on Jan 6, 2023.
You can dive deeper into what analysts are forecasting on the Waters stock forecast page.
Last year, WAT earnings were $707.76M. Over the past 5 year, WAT's earnings have increased by 116.17% per year. This was faster than the Diagnostics & Research industry average of 27.78%.
Last year, WAT revenue was $2.97B. Over the past five year, WAT's revenue has gone up by 5.18% per year. This was slower than the Diagnostics & Research industry average of 16.35%.
Dive into WAT's earnings and revenue performance here.
In the past year, insiders at WAT have bought more shares than they have sold.
Jonathan M. Pratt, SVP Waters Division of WAT, was the latest WAT insider to sell. They sold $145,038.25 worth of WAT stock on Mar 1, 2023.
Dig into more about who owns WAT stock here.
No, Waters doesn't provide an income stream by paying out dividends.
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