Waters Corporation

WAT Healthcare Diagnostics & Research

Waters Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $3.2 billion, up 6.99% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+120.9%
EPS
−67.0%
Free cash flow
−66.7%
Total debt
+308.2%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

454.74 12.86 −2.75%
Market cap
$44.5B
P/E
194×
Fwd P/E
81.0×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
9.63
Beneish M
−2.37
Dividend safety
n/a

Waters Corporation (WAT) Debt to equity

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Waters Corporation's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 0.0×, down 0.4× from fiscal 2025 (0.4×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −7.3× (fiscal 2019) to 5.2× (fiscal 2020); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is below the Diagnostics & Research industry median of 0.0× and in line with the Healthcare sector median of 0.0×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 0.4× (58.41%)
FY2024 0.9× (55.62%)
FY2023 2.0× (33.69%)
FY2022 3.0× (26.61%)
FY2021 4.1× (20.75%)
FY2020 5.2× —
FY2019 −7.3× —
FY2018 0.7× (13.76%)
FY2017 0.8× 14.89%
FY2016 0.7× 1.96%

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Sep 2026 0.0× —
Jun 2026 0.3× 1.29%
Mar 2026 0.3× (14.10%)
Dec 2025 0.4× (9.06%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −7.3× High 5.2×
Ten-year median 0.8×
Current reading's percentile 18

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
WAT Waters Corporation 0.0×
NTRA Natera, Inc. compare 0.0×
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. compare 0.2×
A Agilent Technologies, Inc. compare 0.5×
ILMN Illumina, Inc. compare 0.6×
LH Labcorp Holdings Inc. compare 0.6×
DGX Quest Diagnostics Incorporated compare 0.7×
IQV IQVIA Holdings Inc. compare 2.4×
MTD Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. compare 165×
Diagnostics & Research industry median 0.0×
Healthcare sector median 0.0×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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