Waters Corporation

WAT stock score: 59/100

$455.59 · -0.41% · Scored Oct 22, 2026

Technical
68
Fundamental
50
News
54

The reading

Waters (WAT) scores 59 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 82% of Healthcare stocks and 68% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 68, fundamentals 50.

Among the fundamentals, Revenue Quality (Quarterly) at 100 and Revenue Growth (Quarterly) at 99 score highest, while Earnings Growth (Quarterly) at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 68 and contrarian oscillators 28 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 54; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 57 to 66, and it is down 7 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward WAT’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

50

Pulling it up

  • Revenue Quality (Quarterly)100

    Revenue Quality (Quarterly) evaluates recent revenue performance using trailing 12-month data from quarterly reports.

  • Revenue Growth (Quarterly)99

    Quarterly revenue growth measures sales increase compared to the previous quarter.

  • Return on Equity (ROE)95

    Return on Equity (ROE) measures how efficiently a company generates profits from shareholder equity.

Holding it back

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)0

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

  • Trailing P/E0

    Trailing P/E ratio uses the last 12 months of actual earnings.

  • Fair Value0

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

63

Pulling it up

  • Ichimoku Cloud100

    Ichimoku Cloud is a comprehensive indicator showing support/resistance, trend direction, and momentum.

  • EMA Combined99

    Combined Exponential Moving Average score aggregates multiple EMA periods into a single metric.

  • SMA Combined99

    Combined Simple Moving Average score synthesizes multiple SMA periods (5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200) into one reading.

Holding it back

  • Candlestick Patterns0

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

  • Bollinger Bands (50)0

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Social Sentiment (1W)
54

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly551
Daily633
Weekly702
Monthly742
Quarterly712

Composite score, last 90 days

05010059Jul 25, 2026Oct 22, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 66Jul 26, 2026: 63Jul 27, 2026: 62Jul 28, 2026: 66Jul 29, 2026: 65Jul 30, 2026: 65Jul 31, 2026: 57Aug 2, 2026: 57Aug 3, 2026: 57Aug 5, 2026: 59Aug 6, 2026: 59Aug 7, 2026: 61Aug 8, 2026: 61Aug 9, 2026: 61Aug 10, 2026: 61Aug 11, 2026: 61Aug 12, 2026: 60Aug 13, 2026: 60Aug 14, 2026: 60Aug 15, 2026: 60Aug 16, 2026: 60Aug 17, 2026: 59Aug 18, 2026: 58Aug 19, 2026: 60Aug 20, 2026: 59Aug 22, 2026: 59Aug 23, 2026: 59Aug 24, 2026: 59Aug 25, 2026: 60Aug 26, 2026: 60Aug 27, 2026: 60Aug 28, 2026: 60Aug 29, 2026: 60Aug 30, 2026: 60Aug 31, 2026: 59Sep 1, 2026: 59Sep 2, 2026: 60Sep 3, 2026: 60Sep 4, 2026: 58Sep 5, 2026: 59Sep 6, 2026: 59Sep 7, 2026: 59Sep 8, 2026: 58Sep 9, 2026: 58Sep 10, 2026: 57Sep 11, 2026: 59Sep 12, 2026: 59Sep 13, 2026: 59Sep 14, 2026: 59Sep 15, 2026: 59Sep 16, 2026: 60Sep 17, 2026: 60Sep 18, 2026: 59Sep 19, 2026: 59Sep 20, 2026: 59Sep 21, 2026: 60Sep 22, 2026: 60Sep 23, 2026: 60Sep 24, 2026: 60Sep 25, 2026: 60Sep 26, 2026: 60Sep 27, 2026: 60Sep 28, 2026: 61Sep 29, 2026: 60Sep 30, 2026: 59Oct 1, 2026: 57Oct 2, 2026: 58Oct 3, 2026: 58Oct 4, 2026: 58Oct 5, 2026: 59Oct 6, 2026: 60Oct 7, 2026: 58Oct 8, 2026: 58Oct 9, 2026: 58Oct 10, 2026: 58Oct 11, 2026: 58Oct 12, 2026: 58Oct 13, 2026: 57Oct 14, 2026: 58Oct 15, 2026: 59Oct 16, 2026: 58Oct 17, 2026: 58Oct 18, 2026: 58Oct 19, 2026: 58Oct 20, 2026: 58Oct 21, 2026: 59Oct 22, 2026: 59
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Key facts

Market cap
$44.7B
Sector
Healthcare
Industry
Diagnostics & Research
Beta
1.15
Risk grade (1–10)
6
Next earnings
Nov 3, 2026

Diagnostics & Research peers

CompanyMarket capScore
NTRA Natera$59.6B56
A Agilent Technologies$50.1B60
IQV IQVIA$45.5B59
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories$43.6B59
ILMN Illumina$42.7B61
MTD Mettler-Toledo International$33.6B59

Questions

What is WAT's stock score today?

WAT scores 59/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 22, 2026: technical 68, fundamental 50, and news sentiment 54, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is WAT a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 59 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the WAT score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Healthcare ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.