Waters
$425.53Change from previous close: −3.15%Absolute change: −$13.86
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $41.78B
- Enterprise value
- $46.75B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 107.5
- Forward P/E
- 25.7
- PEG
- 1.64
- Price/book
- 2.75
- Price/sales
- 9.00
- EV/EBITDA
- 32.2
- EV/revenue
- 10.1
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 56.3%
- Operating margin
- 9.4%
- Net margin
- 3.6%
- ROE
- 1.9%
- ROA
- 3.6%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 113.4%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $539M
- Total debt
- $5.48B
- Debt/equity
- 0.36
- Current ratio
- 1.86
- Quick ratio
- 1.05
Dividends
- Payout ratio
- 0.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- November 26, 1996
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $446.74
- Median price target
- $455.00
- High price target
- $515.00
- Low price target
- $349.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 23
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $16.55
- EPS estimate, current year
- $14.58
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 1.19
- Average volume
- 765.27K
- Shares outstanding
- 98.19M
- Float
- 98.07M
- Institutional ownership
- 102.1%
- Insider ownership
- 0.1%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 3.4%
- Short ratio (days)
- 5.06