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, Q4 2021
Institutional positions in Waters Corp as of Dec 31, 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
- 667
- +19 vs. Q3 2021
- Shares held
- 54.8M
- +453.4K (+0.8%) vs. Q3 2021
- Total value
- $20.4B
- +$974.3M (+5.0%) vs. Q3 2021
- New holders
- 94
- 195 more added
- Sold out
- 75
- 238 more reduced
10 institutions that held it in Q3 2021 haven't filed for Q4 2021 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q3 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, Q4 2021
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Waters Corp; share changes are against Q3 2021.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Group Inc | 6,658,934 | $2.48B | 0.06% | −10,202−0.2% | Reduced |
| BlackRock Inc. | 6,069,554 | $2.26B | 0.06% | +331,610+5.8% | Added |
| Fundsmith LLPSuperinvestorFundsmith | 4,510,879 | $1.68B | 4.10% | −3150.0% | Reduced |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 4,052,678 | $1.51B | 0.27% | −76,385−1.8% | Reduced |
| State Street Corp | 2,781,227 | $1.04B | 0.05% | +70,524+2.6% | Added |
| Massachusetts Financial Services Co | 2,546,414 | $948.8M | 0.26% | −48,987−1.9% | Reduced |
| FMR LLC | 1,391,354 | $518.4M | 0.04% | +163,557+13.3% | Added |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 1,183,053 | $440.0M | 0.05% | +21,757+1.9% | Added |
| Champlain Investment Partners, LLC | 972,735 | $362.4M | 1.64% | −2,585−0.3% | Reduced |
| Invesco Ltd. | 969,123 | $361.1M | 0.09% | +129,837+15.5% | Added |
| Janus Henderson Group PLC | 928,876 | $346.1M | 0.14% | −118,558−11.3% | Reduced |
| Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership | 844,284 | $314.6M | 0.38% | −84,524−9.1% | Reduced |
| Wellington Management Group LLP | 837,741 | $312.1M | 0.05% | +837,741 | New |
| Northern Trust Corp | 837,172 | $311.9M | 0.05% | +6,035+0.7% | Added |
| Impax Asset Management Group plc | 717,812 | $267.5M | 0.98% | +98,490+15.9% | Added |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 611,144 | $227.7M | 0.07% | −25,277−4.0% | Reduced |
| Mawer Investment Management Ltd. | 588,453 | $219.3M | 0.99% | +7,025+1.2% | Added |
| Los Angeles Capital Management LLC | 567,544 | $211.5M | 0.79% | +78,184+16.0% | Added |
| Norges Bank | 508,632 | $189.5M | 0.04% | −23,237−4.4% | Reduced |
| UBS Asset Management Americas Inc | 422,495 | $157.4M | 0.06% | +8,642+2.1% | Added |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 372,731 | $138.9M | 0.03% | −102,065−21.5% | Reduced |
| Eaton Vance Management | 372,492 | $138.8M | 0.17% | +113,693+43.9% | Added |
| Bank of America Corp | 340,110 | $126.7M | 0.01% | −16,350−4.6% | Reduced |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. | 318,255 | $118.6M | 0.07% | +57,693+22.1% | Added |
| Boston Trust Walden Corp | 313,627 | $116.9M | 0.94% | −2,091−0.7% | Reduced |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 312,564 | $116.5M | 0.03% | +8,692+2.9% | Added |
| Nuveen Asset Management, LLC | 304,020 | $113.3M | 0.03% | −53,597−15.0% | Reduced |
| Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. | 301,389 | $112.3M | 0.24% | +6,539+2.2% | Added |
| Nordea Investment Management AB | 299,484 | $111.3M | 0.13% | −334,372−52.8% | Reduced |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 289,371 | $107.8M | 0.03% | +548+0.2% | Added |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | 289,344 | $107.8M | 0.12% | +252,631+688.1% | Added |
| AQR Capital Management LLC | 280,929 | $104.4M | 0.19% | +53,138+23.3% | Added |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 272,347 | $101.5M | 0.05% | +29,802+12.3% | Added |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 254,712 | $94.9M | 0.01% | +13,951+5.8% | Added |
| Marathon Asset Mgmt Ltd | 253,043 | $94.3M | 1.17% | −177,767−41.3% | Reduced |
| Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC | 250,131 | $93.2M | 0.05% | +3,603+1.5% | Added |
| Acadian Asset Management LLC | 249,732 | $93.0M | 0.35% | −126,528−33.6% | Reduced |
| Beck Mack & Oliver LLC | 249,661 | $93.0M | 2.21% | −7,532−2.9% | Reduced |
| Newport Trust Co | 242,465 | $90.3M | 0.24% | −3,181−1.3% | Reduced |
| Swiss National Bank | 233,311 | $86.9M | 0.05% | −10,700−4.4% | Reduced |
| Schroder Investment Management Group | 229,736 | $85.6M | 0.12% | +127,458+124.6% | Added |
| Morgan Stanley | 207,982 | $77.5M | 0.01% | +13,789+7.1% | Added |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 175,276 | $65.3M | 0.07% | −92,504−34.5% | Reduced |
| Glenmede Trust Co NA | 173,595 | $64.7M | 0.31% | −6,294−3.5% | Reduced |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 164,456 | $61.3M | 0.01% | −26,305−13.8% | Reduced |
| PGGM Investments | 163,150 | $60.8M | 0.30% | +801+0.5% | Added |
| Anchor Capital Advisors LLC | 159,653 | $59.5M | 1.18% | −2,407−1.5% | Reduced |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 157,806 | $58.8M | 0.07% | +3,054+2.0% | Added |
| TD Asset Management Inc | 157,139 | $58.5M | 0.05% | +42,383+36.9% | Added |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 157,100 | $58.5M | 0.01% | −46,388−22.8% | Reduced |
| Jupiter Asset Management Ltd | 154,839 | $57.6M | 0.63% | +17,358+12.6% | Added |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp | 145,093 | $54.1M | 0.11% | −21,172−12.7% | Reduced |
| DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale | 145,699 | $53.9M | 0.13% | +38,535+36.0% | Added |
| Amundi | 154,287 | $52.1M | 0.03% | +18,926+14.0% | Added |
| Bank of Montreal | 139,988 | $52.1M | 0.03% | −13,275−8.7% | Reduced |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 136,665 | $50.9M | 0.05% | −4,749−3.4% | Reduced |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. | 134,111 | $50.0M | 0.06% | −83,260−38.3% | Reduced |
| California Public Employees Retirement System | 132,498 | $49.4M | 0.03% | −6,156−4.4% | Reduced |
| AustralianSuper Pty Ltd | 136,847 | $48.8M | 0.27% | +9,675+7.6% | Added |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 131,799 | $47.1M | 0.01% | +50,021+61.2% | Added |
| Barclays PLC | 122,180 | $45.5M | 0.03% | +937+0.8% | Added |
| Man Group plc | 122,058 | $45.5M | 0.15% | +23,132+23.4% | Added |
| Credit Suisse AG | 121,946 | $45.4M | 0.04% | −14,958−10.9% | Reduced |
| PFM Health Sciences, LP | 117,634 | $43.8M | 1.53% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 109,066 | $40.6M | 0.05% | +1,067+1.0% | Added |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 107,642 | $40.1M | 0.04% | −23,621−18.0% | Reduced |
| Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc | 105,777 | $39.4M | 3.18% | −565−0.5% | Reduced |
| Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC | 105,777 | $39.4M | 0.04% | +105,777 | New |
| BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. | 103,672 | $38.6M | 0.13% | −3,931−3.7% | Reduced |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 103,120 | $38.4M | 0.01% | −149,108−59.1% | Reduced |
| National Pension Service | 101,632 | $37.9M | 0.07% | −6,489−6.0% | Reduced |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 99,765 | $37.2M | 0.01% | −23,876−19.3% | Reduced |
| Bridgeway Capital Management, LLC | 98,300 | $36.6M | 0.68% | +2,140+2.2% | Added |
| KBC Group NV | 96,859 | $36.1M | 0.12% | +33,961+54.0% | Added |
| Prudential Financial Inc | 98,039 | $34.5M | 0.04% | −23,361−19.2% | Reduced |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 90,064 | $33.5M | 0.05% | −899−1.0% | Reduced |
| AXA S.A. | 89,551 | $33.4M | 0.09% | +5,419+6.4% | Added |
| State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System | 85,062 | $31.7M | 0.06% | −1,431−1.7% | Reduced |
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co | 83,517 | $31.1M | 0.03% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Panagora Asset Management Inc | 83,310 | $31.0M | 0.16% | +31,811+61.8% | Added |
| Great West Life Assurance Co | 83,240 | $30.9M | 0.06% | −20,767−20.0% | Reduced |
| Franklin Resources Inc | 82,101 | $30.6M | 0.01% | −305−0.4% | Reduced |
| Northwest & Ethical Investments L.P. | 81,845 | $30.5M | 0.90% | +20,028+32.4% | Added |
| Pictet Asset Management SA | 81,084 | $30.2M | 0.03% | +11,905+17.2% | Added |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | 79,785 | $29.7M | 0.02% | −1,954−2.4% | Reduced |
| Two Sigma Advisers, LP | 77,100 | $28.7M | 0.07% | +29,300+61.3% | Added |
| Canada Pension Plan Investment Board | 75,872 | $28.3M | 0.03% | +17,596+30.2% | Added |
| Select Equity Group, L.P. | 75,087 | $28.0M | 0.08% | −81,970−52.2% | Reduced |
| Baillie Gifford & Co | 73,445 | $27.4M | 0.02% | +3,312+4.7% | Added |
| New York State Teachers Retirement System | 71,995 | $26.8M | 0.05% | +1,168+1.6% | Added |
| Zurcher Kantonalbank (Zurich Cantonalbank) | 71,373 | $26.6M | 0.13% | +20,571+40.5% | Added |
| Umb Bank N A | 71,057 | $26.5M | 0.33% | +70,349+9,936.3% | Added |
| Boston Financial Mangement LLC | 70,607 | $26.3M | 0.96% | −14,540−17.1% | Reduced |
| NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. | 69,705 | $26.0M | 0.13% | +33,144+90.7% | Added |
| Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. | 66,227 | $24.7M | 0.13% | +41,850+171.7% | Added |
| United Capital Financial Advisers, LLC | 65,712 | $24.5M | 0.11% | +1,795+2.8% | Added |
| Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) | 65,676 | $24.4M | 0.13% | −21,246−24.4% | Reduced |
| Millennium Management LLC | 64,968 | $24.2M | 0.03% | +211+0.3% | Added |
| Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC | 60,990 | $22.7M | 0.05% | +60,990 | New |
| Storebrand Asset Management AS | 59,802 | $22.3M | 0.10% | +13,767+29.9% | Added |