Ratings Waters Corporation London S.E.

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US9418481035

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336.7 USD -4.47% Intraday chart for Waters Corporation -6.17% +2.55%

Strengths

  • The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
  • The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
  • There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
  • Analysts' price targets are all relatively close, reflecting good visibility on the company's valuation.
  • Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.

Weaknesses

  • With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
  • The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 31.15 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
  • The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
  • In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.
  • The valuation of the company is particularly high given the cash flows generated by its activity.
  • For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
  • For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
  • Over the past twelve months, analysts' consensus has been significantly revised downwards.

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Sector: Advanced Medical Equipment & Technology

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