On Friday, Waters Corp (NYSE: WAT) was 19.84% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $323.11. A 52-week range for WAT has been $234.04 – $367.21.
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Healthcare Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 4.33% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -0.20%. With a float of $59.29 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $59.36 million.
The firm has a total of 7900 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 59.31%, operating margin of 27.54%, and the pretax margin is 24.63%.
Waters Corp (WAT) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Waters Corp stocks. The insider ownership of Waters Corp is 0.24%, while institutional ownership is 98.68%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 28 ’24, was worth 332,900. In this transaction Director of this company bought 1,000 shares at a rate of $332.90, taking the stock ownership to the 1,653 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 15 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 4,000 for $361.64, making the entire transaction worth $1,446,560. This insider now owns 14,716 shares in total.
Waters Corp (WAT) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -0.20% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.31% during the next five years compared to 7.21% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Waters Corp (NYSE: WAT) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Waters Corp (WAT) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.38. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 9.48. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 44.42.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 10.48, a number that is poised to hit 4.05 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 12.84 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Waters Corp (WAT)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Waters Corp, WAT], we can find that recorded value of 0.74 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.43 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 39.96%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 12.25.
During the past 100 days, Waters Corp’s (WAT) raw stochastic average was set at 98.05%, which indicates a significant increase from 96.85% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 78.48% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 38.47% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $341.95, while its 200-day Moving Average is $328.06. Now, the first resistance to watch is $393.66. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $400.11. The third major resistance level sits at $410.86. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $376.46, it is likely to go to the next support level at $365.70. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $359.25.
Waters Corp (NYSE: WAT) Key Stats
There are 59,362K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 27.55 billion. As of now, sales total 2,956 M while income totals 642,230 K. Its latest quarter income was 708,530 K while its last quarter net income were 142,740 K.
