Waters Corp (NYSE: WAT) open the trading on Wednesday, with great promise as it jumped 3.79% to $357.77, before settling in for the price of $344.71 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, WAT posted a 52-week range of $258.89-$393.38.
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The Healthcare sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 4.33% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 7.21%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 0.39%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $59.38 million, simultaneously with a float of $59.33 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $21.24 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $352.16, while the 200-day Moving Average is $331.65.
Waters Corp (WAT) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Diagnostics & Research industry. Waters Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.08%, in contrast to 97.28% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on May 28 ’24, this organization’s Director bought 1,000 shares at the rate of 332.90, making the entire transaction reach 332,900 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 1,653. Preceding that transaction, on May 15 ’24, Company’s Director sold 4,000 for 361.64, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 1,446,560. This particular insider is now the holder of 14,716 in total.
Waters Corp (WAT) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.46 per share during the current fiscal year.
Waters Corp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 0.39% and is forecasted to reach 12.92 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 6.65% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 7.21% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Waters Corp (NYSE: WAT) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Waters Corp (WAT). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.38. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 11.62. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $34.14, and its Beta score is 0.98. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 7.31. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 34.26.
In the same vein, WAT’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 10.48, a figure that is expected to reach 4.03 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 12.92 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Waters Corp (WAT)
[Waters Corp, WAT] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was superior the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 14.97% While, its Average True Range was 12.10.
Raw Stochastic average of Waters Corp (WAT) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 68.80%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 32.51% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 82.26% that was higher than 39.76% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
