Waters Corporation
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What it reported
Reported 77 days ago, on 2026-08-04.
Forecast against the result
| Forecast | Reported | Surprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.6B | 1.6B+113.3% year on year | +1.4% |
| Net income | 295.6M | -136.0M-192.4% year on year | -146.0% |
| Earnings per share | 3.01 | 3.05+3.4% year on year | +1.3% |
Year on year compares the same quarter a year earlier (2025-08-04), not the quarter before.
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What the market expects
For the quarter ending 2026-10-04.
Against the same quarter last year (2025-11-04): EPS +17.5%revenue +119.3%
These are third-party analyst forecasts. CoinUnited.io does not produce them and does not choose which analysts are included.
Where the revenue comes from
- Waters Instrument Systems38%354.7M
- Waters Service32.1%298.9M
- Chemistry Consumables18.3%170.4M
- Ta Instrument Systems8.4%78.1M
- Ta Service3.3%30.3M
Most recent reported quarter (2025-12-31).
Track record
Next report expected 2026-11-03. Reports quarterly.
Beat estimates 8 of the last 8 quarters. The typical gap is +0.06 per share.
How much it actually moves
±7.0%
Median move across the two sessions around the report, over its last 8 results. On an ordinary two-day stretch it moves 1.7%.
2026-08-04+6.44%
2024-11-01Move over the two sessions around each report2026-08-04
Beat or miss, then up or down
| Rose | Fell | |
|---|---|---|
| Beat | 4 | 4 |
| Missed | 0 | 0 |
Counted across 8 results. This is what happened, not what will.
Where analysts put it in 12 months
A different timescale from the rest of this page: these are 12-month views, not the two-day move around a report.
| Firm | Target | Set on | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barclays | 500.00 | 2026-10-07 | TheFly |
| Guggenheim | 490.00 | 2026-10-01 | TheFly |
| Goldman Sachs | 515.00 | 2026-09-21 | TheFly |
| UBS | 490.00 | 2026-09-09 | TheFly |
| Piper Sandler | 480.00 | 2026-08-27 | TheFly |
| Morgan Stanley | 430.00 | 2026-08-05 | TheFly |
| Deutsche Bank | 400.00 | 2026-08-05 | TheFly |
| Evercore ISI | 420.00 | 2026-08-05 | TheFly |
| RBC Capital | 475.00 | 2026-08-05 | TheFly |
| Stifel Nicolaus | 420.00 | 2026-08-05 | TheFly |
| HSBC | 435.00 | 2026-06-03 | TheFly |
| Robert W. Baird | 387.00 | 2026-05-06 | TheFly |
From 12 firms that published a target in the last 180 days, latest call per firm. Targets are set by those firms; CoinUnited.io does not produce or endorse them.
Reported results
| Reported | EPS forecast | EPS actual | Surprise | Revenue surprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 3.01 | 3.05 | +1.3% | +1.4% |
| 2026-05-05 | 2.31 | 2.7 | +16.9% | +5.3% |
| 2026-02-09 | 4.51 | 4.53 | +0.4% | +0.4% |
| 2025-11-04 | 3.21 | 3.4 | +5.9% | +2.4% |
| 2025-08-04 | 2.94 | 2.95 | +0.3% | +3.0% |
| 2025-05-06 | 2.22 | 2.25 | +1.4% | +1.1% |
| 2025-02-12 | 4.03 | 4.1 | +1.7% | +1.8% |
| 2024-11-01 | 2.68 | 2.93 | +9.3% | +3.8% |
| 2024-07-31 | 2.56 | 2.63 | +2.7% | +1.2% |
| 2024-05-07 | 2.1 | 2.21 | +5.2% | +0.2% |
| 2024-02-06 | 3.55 | 3.62 | +2.0% | +0.5% |
| 2023-11-07 | 2.55 | 2.84 | +11.4% | -1.7% |
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TMO EPS history for WAT runs from 1995-03-31 to 2026-08-04, 123 reports.Reaction history covers its last 8 results, which is as deep as our daily price baseline reaches.