Ratings Waters Corporation London S.E.

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US9418481035

Market Closed - London S.E. 10:14:04 2024-05-22 EDT After market 15:38:37
352.5 USD -0.74% Intraday chart for Waters Corporation 335.8 -4.71%

Strengths

  • Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
  • 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.
  • The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.
  • 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.
  • With an expected P/E ratio at 32.29 and 28.39 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.
  • Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
  • The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
  • The company is highly valued 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 last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
  • The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.
  • Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been revised negatively.

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Sector: Advanced Medical Equipment & Technology

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