Waters Corp. (WAT): Price and Financial Metrics

WAT POWR Grades

• WAT scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 77.01% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for WAT is in Quality, which has been heading down over the past 177 days.
• WAT ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 13th percentile.

WAT Stock Summary

• WATERS CORP's market capitalization of $15,131,775,954 is ahead of 87.95% of US-listed equities.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for WATERS CORP is higher than 86.71% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 58.98%, WATERS CORP's debt growth rate surpasses 87.76% of about US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to WATERS CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be TYL, SOFI, MKTX, APD, and ERII.
• WAT's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit WATERS CORP's official web site, go to www.waters.com.

WAT Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Healthcare stock, WAT's price/earnings ratio is 6.17% lower, now standing at 22.8.
• WAT's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 2.7 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WAT.

WAT Growth Metrics

Its year over year price growth rate is now at 7.84%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -29.91%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -15.22%.

Over the past 49 months, WAT's revenue has gone up $557,710,000.

The table below shows WAT's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	2,949.895	630.89	696.932
2022-06-30	2,900.573	640.693	702.119
2022-03-31	2,867.901	726.83	704.547
2021-12-31	2,785.874	747.274	692.843
2021-09-30	2,736.083	796.818	694.915
2021-06-30	2,670.634	801.505	660.499

WAT's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• WAT has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 94.95% of graded US stocks.
• WAT's asset turnover comes in at 0.892 -- ranking 17th of 75 Measuring and Control Equipment stocks.
• GEOS, BIO, and TRMB are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WAT.

The table below shows WAT's key quality metrics over time.