Waters Corp. (WAT): Price and Financial Metrics

WAT POWR Grades

• WAT scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 95.98% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for WAT is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 178 days.
• WAT's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 13.65% of US stocks).

WAT Stock Summary

• WAT has a higher market value than 89.31% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $17,622,358,226.
• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for WAT is 5.89 -- better than 92.74% of US stocks.
• WAT's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 596.76 -- higher than 95.24% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to WATERS CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be OB, BC, SHYF, IRIX, and RMTI.
• Visit WAT's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.waters.com.

WAT Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Healthcare stock, WAT's price/earnings ratio is 10.18% higher, now standing at 24.9.
• WAT's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 9.4 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.