Waters Corp.: Embedded Expectations High Under Present Conditions [Seeking Alpha]
Waters Corporation (WAT)
Last waters corporation earnings: 4/28 06:50 am
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Waters continues to present with high-quality business characteristics, including high returns on capital employed and loads of freely available cash. Embedded expectations remain exquisitely high, calling for outsized performance in a time when business returns may be contracting. Present multiples demand high compounding rate of operating capital, which reduces the margin of safety. Reiterate hold. Pgiam/iStock via Getty Images Investment update Following my last publication on Waters Corporation ( NYSE: WAT ) the stock is +24% and now trades near our original price objective of $340/share. I revised my outlook on WAT to a hold in the last report for several reasons, not in the least related to the fact it sold ~22x forward earnings at the time, around what I believed to be fair value (my view was the business was worth ~$19.5Bn – it sells at $19.8Bn as I write). Thus, I'm not discouraged by the 'opportunity lost' given my analysis of the company's economics. In additio
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- What Contributed To The Performance Of Waters Corporation (WAT) In Q3? [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- Waters Corporation (WAT) Surged on Improved Demand [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- Waters Corporation Opens State-of-the-Art Precision Manufacturing Facility in Longbridge, UKPR Newswire
- Waters Corporation Opens State-of-the-Art Precision Manufacturing Facility in Longbridge, UKPR Newswire
- Waters New Software Delivers Lab-Centric Business Intelligence and Enables Confident Audit-ReadinessPR Newswire
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Earnings
- 11/1/24 - Beat
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Sec Filings
- 11/12/24 - Form SC
- 11/7/24 - Form SC
- 11/1/24 - Form 8-K/A
- WAT's page on the SEC website