Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (WTS): Price and Financial Metrics

Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (WTS): $196.47

3.96 (+2.06%)

POWR Rating

Component Grades

Momentum

C

Stability

B

Sentiment

Quality

A

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WTS Price/Volume Stats

Current price $196.47 52-week high $199.21
Prev. close $192.51 52-week low $141.70
Day low $192.29 Volume 110,500
Day high $197.14 Avg. volume 119,318
50-day MA $181.32 Dividend yield 0.75%
200-day MA $175.78 Market Cap 6.55B

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WTS POWR Grades

  • WTS scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 98.27% of US stocks.
  • WTS's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
  • WTS's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 39.39% of US stocks).

WTS Stock Summary

  • WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC's stock had its IPO on January 2, 1986, making it an older stock than 93.05% of US equities in our set.
  • With a year-over-year growth in debt of -46.16%, WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC's debt growth rate surpasses only 6.32% of about US stocks.
  • In terms of volatility of its share price, WTS is more volatile than merely 7.26% of stocks we're observing.
  • Stocks that are quantitatively similar to WTS, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are MYRG, DCI, PSO, ROCK, and JBSS.
  • Visit WTS's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.watts.com.

WTS Valuation Summary

  • In comparison to the median Industrials stock, WTS's price/sales ratio is 77.14% higher, now standing at 3.1.
  • WTS's price/sales ratio has moved up 2.3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WTS.

Stock Date P/S P/B P/E EV/EBIT
WTS 2023-11-09 3.1 4.3 22.7 17.4
WTS 2023-11-08 3.1 4.3 22.6 17.3
WTS 2023-11-07 3.1 4.3 22.5 17.2
WTS 2023-11-06 3.1 4.3 22.5 17.3
WTS 2023-11-03 3.2 4.4 23.1 17.7
WTS 2023-11-02 3.1 4.3 22.5 17.2

WTS Growth Metrics

    Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 59.81%.
  • Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 20.78%.
  • Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 23.31%.
Over the past 34 months, WTS's revenue has gone up $385,100,000.

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

Date Revenue Operating Cash Flow Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31 1,979.5 224 251.5
2022-09-30 1,951.5 132.2 223
2022-06-30 1,918.7 152.5 210.7
2022-03-31 1,859.1 144.9 178.5
2021-12-31 1,809.2 180.8 165.7
2021-09-30 1,738.7 236.3 154.8

WTS'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.
  • WTS has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 95.3% of graded US stocks.
  • WTS's asset turnover comes in at 0.96 -- ranking 25th of 60 Construction Materials stocks.
  • SCX, SSD, and NOBH are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WTS.

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

Period Asset Turnover Gross Margin ROIC
2021-09-26 0.960 0.424 0.351
2021-06-27 0.941 0.421 0.311
2021-03-28 0.895 0.413 0.271
2020-12-31 0.879 0.415 0.243
2020-09-27 0.879 0.416 0.234
2020-06-28 0.887 0.420 0.238

WTS Price Target

For more insight on analysts targets of WTS, see our WTS price target page. And for a list of of all stocks sorted by upside potential based on analyst target price, see our Top Price Target page.

Average Price Target $153.25 Average Broker Recommendation 2 (Hold)

Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (WTS) Company Bio


Watts Water Technologies designs, manufactures, and sells water safety and flow control products in the Americas and Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific. It offers residential and commercial flow control products, including backflow preventers, water pressure regulators, temperature and pressure relief valves, and thermostatic mixing valves. The company was founded in 1874 and is based in North Andover, Massachusetts.


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WTS Price Returns

1-mo 3.34%
3-mo 7.93%
6-mo 11.21%
1-year 23.80%
3-year 70.84%
5-year N/A
YTD 35.39%
2022 -24.08%
2021 60.63%
2020 23.14%
2019 56.20%
2018 -14.13%

WTS Dividends

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