Waters Corp
WAT- Exchange
- NYSE
- Industry
- Laboratory Analytical Instruments
- SEC CIK
- 0001000697
In the last 90 days, Waters Corp insiders filed 0 open-market purchases and 1 sale; 1,185 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $37.3B in total; 3 superinvestors hold it, including Fundsmith and Viking Global Investors.
13F holders, Q3 2021
Institutional positions in Waters Corp as of Sep 30, 2021. Investment managers with $100 million or more in US stocks report their long positions on Form 13F within 45 days after each quarter ends. How 13F works
- Institutional holders
- 658
- +35 vs. Q2 2021
- Shares held
- 54.4M
- +114.2K (+0.2%) vs. Q2 2021
- Total value
- $19.5B
- +$690.2M (+3.7%) vs. Q2 2021
- New holders
- 78
- 245 more added
- Sold out
- 43
- 204 more reduced
11 institutions that held it in Q2 2021 haven't filed for Q3 2021 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q2 2021: new holders, sold out and not filed yet
Holders and value by quarter
Institutions reporting WAT on Form 13F each quarter since Q1 2021, and the total value they reported. Values are as of each quarter end, so they also move with the share price.
| Quarter | Holders | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 1,185 | $37.3B |
| Q1 2026 | 1,178 | $29.1B |
| Q4 2025 | 808 | $21.9B |
| Q3 2025 | 755 | $17.2B |
| Q2 2025 | 771 | $20.4B |
| Q1 2025 | 765 | $21.2B |
| Q4 2024 | 761 | $21.2B |
| Q3 2024 | 697 | $20.3B |
| Q2 2024 | 695 | $16.5B |
| Q1 2024 | 689 | $20.1B |
| Q4 2023 | 674 | $19.4B |
| Q3 2023 | 651 | $15.7B |
| Q2 2023 | 647 | $15.0B |
| Q1 2023 | 678 | $16.8B |
| Q4 2022 | 654 | $18.2B |
| Q3 2022 | 644 | $14.5B |
| Q2 2022 | 654 | $17.7B |
| Q1 2022 | 661 | $16.9B |
| Q4 2021 | 667 | $20.4B |
| Q3 2021 | 658 | $19.5B |
| Q2 2021 | 634 | $18.9B |
| Q1 2021 | 600 | $15.5B |
Institutions, Q3 2021
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Waters Corp; share changes are against Q2 2021.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Group Inc | 6,669,136 | $2.38B | 0.06% | +6,400+0.1% | Added |
| BlackRock Inc. | 5,737,944 | $2.05B | 0.06% | +80,183+1.4% | Added |
| Fundsmith LLPSuperinvestorFundsmith | 4,511,194 | $1.61B | 4.46% | +103,155+2.3% | Added |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 4,129,063 | $1.48B | 0.29% | −267,956−6.1% | Reduced |
| State Street Corp | 2,710,703 | $968.5M | 0.05% | +29,914+1.1% | Added |
| Massachusetts Financial Services Co | 2,595,401 | $927.3M | 0.27% | −530,238−17.0% | Reduced |
| FMR LLC | 1,227,797 | $438.7M | 0.03% | +455,047+58.9% | Added |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 1,161,296 | $414.1M | 0.06% | +101,669+9.6% | Added |
| Janus Henderson Group PLC | 1,047,434 | $374.2M | 0.16% | −58,839−5.3% | Reduced |
| Champlain Investment Partners, LLC | 975,320 | $348.5M | 1.67% | −35,230−3.5% | Reduced |
| Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership | 928,808 | $331.9M | 0.42% | +134,304+16.9% | Added |
| Invesco Ltd. | 839,286 | $299.9M | 0.08% | −41,222−4.7% | Reduced |
| Northern Trust Corp | 831,137 | $297.0M | 0.05% | +634+0.1% | Added |
| Nordea Investment Management AB | 633,856 | $234.1M | 0.30% | −394,557−38.4% | Reduced |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 636,421 | $227.4M | 0.07% | +38,017+6.4% | Added |
| Impax Asset Management Group plc | 619,322 | $221.3M | 0.91% | −90,527−12.8% | Reduced |
| Mawer Investment Management Ltd. | 581,428 | $207.7M | 0.99% | +902+0.2% | Added |
| Norges Bank | 531,869 | $190.0M | 0.04% | −29,800−5.3% | Reduced |
| Los Angeles Capital Management LLC | 489,360 | $174.8M | 0.80% | +197,433+67.6% | Added |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 474,796 | $169.6M | 0.05% | +3,855+0.8% | Added |
| Marathon Asset Mgmt Ltd | 430,810 | $153.9M | 1.87% | +430,810 | New |
| UBS Asset Management Americas Inc | 413,853 | $147.9M | 0.06% | +11,857+2.9% | Added |
| Acadian Asset Management LLC | 376,260 | $134.4M | 0.51% | +71,041+23.3% | Added |
| Nuveen Asset Management, LLC | 357,617 | $127.8M | 0.04% | −48,640−12.0% | Reduced |
| Bank of America Corp | 356,460 | $127.4M | 0.01% | +42,687+13.6% | Added |
| Boston Trust Walden Corp | 315,718 | $112.8M | 1.00% | −22,482−6.6% | Reduced |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 303,872 | $108.6M | 0.04% | +2,254+0.7% | Added |
| Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. | 294,850 | $105.4M | 0.23% | −49,822−14.5% | Reduced |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 288,823 | $103.2M | 0.03% | −1,137−0.4% | Reduced |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 267,780 | $96.0M | 0.11% | +16,510+6.6% | Added |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. | 260,562 | $93.1M | 0.06% | −10,547−3.9% | Reduced |
| Eaton Vance Management | 258,799 | $92.2M | 0.13% | +29,263+12.7% | Added |
| Beck Mack & Oliver LLC | 257,193 | $91.9M | 2.38% | −20,456−7.4% | Reduced |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 252,228 | $90.1M | 0.02% | +34,526+15.9% | Added |
| Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC | 246,528 | $88.1M | 0.05% | +13,446+5.8% | Added |
| Newport Trust Co | 245,646 | $87.8M | 0.24% | −3,970−1.6% | Reduced |
| Swiss National Bank | 244,011 | $87.2M | 0.06% | −9,800−3.9% | Reduced |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 242,545 | $86.7M | 0.04% | +7,623+3.2% | Added |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 240,761 | $86.0M | 0.01% | +75,905+46.0% | Added |
| AQR Capital Management LLC | 227,791 | $81.4M | 0.15% | +83,795+58.2% | Added |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. | 217,371 | $77.7M | 0.10% | −72,265−25.0% | Reduced |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 203,488 | $72.7M | 0.01% | +48,375+31.2% | Added |
| Morgan Stanley | 194,193 | $69.4M | 0.01% | +37,365+23.8% | Added |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 190,761 | $68.2M | 0.02% | +77,404+68.3% | Added |
| Renaissance Technologies LLC | 186,300 | $66.6M | 0.09% | +28,800+18.3% | Added |
| Glenmede Trust Co NA | 179,889 | $64.3M | 0.33% | −1,955−1.1% | Reduced |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp | 166,265 | $59.4M | 0.13% | +930+0.6% | Added |
| PGGM Investments | 162,349 | $58.0M | 0.30% | +3,678+2.3% | Added |
| Anchor Capital Advisors LLC | 162,060 | $57.9M | 1.20% | −18,698−10.3% | Reduced |
| Select Equity Group, L.P. | 157,057 | $56.1M | 0.19% | −166,942−51.5% | Reduced |
| Bank of Montreal | 153,263 | $56.1M | 0.03% | −55,882−26.7% | Reduced |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 154,752 | $55.3M | 0.07% | +4,221+2.8% | Added |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 141,414 | $50.5M | 0.05% | −13,390−8.6% | Reduced |
| California Public Employees Retirement System | 138,654 | $49.5M | 0.04% | +639+0.5% | Added |
| Jupiter Asset Management Ltd | 137,481 | $49.1M | 0.56% | +367+0.3% | Added |
| Credit Suisse AG | 136,904 | $48.9M | 0.04% | −12,737−8.5% | Reduced |
| Adage Capital Partners GP, L.L.C. | 136,665 | $48.8M | 0.10% | +39,100+40.1% | Added |
| Amundi | 135,361 | $48.4M | 0.03% | −3,165−2.3% | Reduced |
| Prudential Financial Inc | 121,400 | $47.2M | 0.07% | +27,079+28.7% | Added |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 131,263 | $46.9M | 0.05% | +63,978+95.1% | Added |
| AustralianSuper Pty Ltd | 127,172 | $45.4M | 0.29% | −7,831−5.8% | Reduced |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 123,641 | $44.2M | 0.02% | +8,006+6.9% | Added |
| Barclays PLC | 121,243 | $43.3M | 0.03% | +35,967+42.2% | Added |
| PFM Health Sciences, LP | 117,634 | $42.0M | 1.36% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| TD Asset Management Inc | 114,756 | $41.0M | 0.04% | +14,443+14.4% | Added |
| DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale | 107,164 | $39.2M | 0.11% | −2,256−2.1% | Reduced |
| National Pension Service | 108,121 | $38.6M | 0.07% | +9,948+10.1% | Added |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 107,999 | $38.6M | 0.05% | −2,456−2.2% | Reduced |
| BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. | 107,603 | $38.4M | 0.14% | −235−0.2% | Reduced |
| Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc | 106,342 | $38.0M | 3.42% | −3,849−3.5% | Reduced |
| Great West Life Assurance Co | 104,007 | $37.4M | 0.09% | +2,483+2.4% | Added |
| Schroder Investment Management Group | 102,278 | $36.5M | 0.06% | −22,178−17.8% | Reduced |
| Man Group plc | 98,926 | $35.3M | 0.13% | +37,407+60.8% | Added |
| Bridgeway Capital Management, LLC | 96,160 | $34.4M | 0.66% | +96,160 | New |
| O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC | 93,474 | $33.4M | 0.68% | −33,119−26.2% | Reduced |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 90,963 | $32.8M | 0.06% | +12,942+16.6% | Added |
| Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) | 86,922 | $31.1M | 0.17% | +6,735+8.4% | Added |
| State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System | 86,493 | $30.9M | 0.06% | −6,515−7.0% | Reduced |
| Boston Financial Mangement LLC | 85,147 | $30.4M | 1.24% | +81+0.1% | Added |
| AXA S.A. | 84,132 | $30.1M | 0.08% | +60+0.1% | Added |
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co | 83,517 | $29.8M | 0.03% | +35,237+73.0% | Added |
| Franklin Resources Inc | 82,406 | $29.4M | 0.01% | +15,354+22.9% | Added |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 81,778 | $29.3M | 0.01% | +16,851+26.0% | Added |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | 81,739 | $29.2M | 0.02% | +1,747+2.2% | Added |
| Bristol John W & Co Inc | 80,091 | $28.6M | 0.53% | −176,876−68.8% | Reduced |
| Lazard Asset Management LLC | 73,932 | $26.4M | 0.03% | +3,502+5.0% | Added |
| Nomura Asset Management Co Ltd | 70,893 | $25.3M | 0.14% | +17,600+33.0% | Added |
| New York State Teachers Retirement System | 70,827 | $25.3M | 0.05% | −1,536−2.1% | Reduced |
| Baillie Gifford & Co | 70,133 | $25.1M | 0.01% | +998+1.4% | Added |
| Pictet Asset Management SA | 69,179 | $24.7M | 0.03% | +69,179 | New |
| Cubist Systematic Strategies, LLC | 69,115 | $24.7M | 0.31% | +42,509+159.8% | Added |
| Allianz Asset Management GmbH | 65,450 | $23.4M | 0.02% | +5,168+8.6% | Added |
| Millennium Management LLC | 64,757 | $23.1M | 0.03% | +9,355+16.9% | Added |
| United Capital Financial Advisers, LLC | 63,917 | $22.8M | 0.11% | +1,709+2.7% | Added |
| Andra AP-fonden | 63,200 | $22.6M | 0.46% | +2,800+4.6% | Added |
| KBC Group NV | 62,898 | $22.5M | 0.08% | +1,103+1.8% | Added |
| Northwest & Ethical Investments L.P. | 61,817 | $22.1M | 0.72% | −12,960−17.3% | Reduced |
| SEI Investments Co | 59,995 | $21.4M | 0.04% | −6,897−10.3% | Reduced |
| Canada Pension Plan Investment Board | 58,276 | $20.8M | 0.02% | −37,577−39.2% | Reduced |
| Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, The | 57,641 | $20.6M | 0.02% | −3,911−6.4% | Reduced |