Waters Corp (NYSE: WAT) kicked off on Tuesday, up 2.64% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $378.16. Over the past 52 weeks, WAT has traded in a range of $273.60-$393.38.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Healthcare sector saw sales topped by 4.33%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 0.39%. With a float of $59.33 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $59.38 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 7900 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 58.06%, operating margin of 27.95%, and the pretax margin is 24.63%.
Waters Corp (WAT) Insider Updates
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Diagnostics & Research Industry. The insider ownership of Waters Corp is 0.08%, while institutional ownership is 97.27%. 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) Performance Highlights and Predictions
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 9/30/2024, the organization reported 3.62 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 3.55) by 0.07. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.46 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 0.39% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.65% during the next five years compared to 7.21% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Waters Corp (NYSE: WAT) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Waters Corp’s (WAT) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.38. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 7.93. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 37.16.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 10.48, a number that is poised to hit 4.03 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 12.92 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Waters Corp (WAT)
The latest stats from [Waters Corp, WAT] show that its last 5-days average volume of 0.67 million was superior to 0.44 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 82.09%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 11.80.
During the past 100 days, Waters Corp’s (WAT) raw stochastic average was set at 95.42%, which indicates a significant increase from 90.48% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 36.96% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 40.17% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $356.22, while its 200-day Moving Average is $332.73. Now, the first resistance to watch is $394.22. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $400.30. The third major resistance level sits at $411.33. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $377.11, it is likely to go to the next support level at $366.08. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $360.00.
Waters Corp (NYSE: WAT) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 23.05 billion has total of 59,376K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 2,956 M in contrast with the sum of 642,230 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 740,310 K and last quarter income was 161,500 K.
