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 2022
Institutional positions in Waters Corp as of Dec 31, 2022. 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
- 654
- +23 vs. Q3 2022
- Shares held
- 53.1M
- −140.7K (−0.3%) vs. Q3 2022
- Total value
- $18.2B
- +$3.82B (+26.6%) vs. Q3 2022
- New holders
- 85
- 194 more added
- Sold out
- 62
- 242 more reduced
13 institutions that held it in Q3 2022 haven't filed for Q4 2022 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q3 2022: 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 2022
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Waters Corp; share changes are against Q3 2022.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Group Inc | 6,803,307 | $2.33B | 0.06% | +39,221+0.6% | Added |
| BlackRock Inc. | 6,587,122 | $2.26B | 0.07% | +90,715+1.4% | Added |
| Fundsmith LLPSuperinvestorFundsmith | 3,689,697 | $1.26B | 5.77% | −3,500−0.1% | Reduced |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 3,488,744 | $1.20B | 0.27% | −42,754−1.2% | Reduced |
| Massachusetts Financial Services Co | 2,656,408 | $910.0M | 0.32% | +32,682+1.2% | Added |
| State Street Corp | 2,626,546 | $899.8M | 0.05% | −33,808−1.3% | Reduced |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 1,196,875 | $409.3M | 0.06% | +21,706+1.8% | Added |
| Wellington Management Group LLP | 1,101,566 | $377.4M | 0.08% | −222,740−16.8% | Reduced |
| Fundsmith Investment Services Ltd. | 835,238 | $286.1M | 4.76% | +12,421+1.5% | Added |
| Morgan Stanley | 802,584 | $274.9M | 0.03% | +414,334+106.7% | Added |
| Northern Trust Corp | 773,600 | $265.0M | 0.06% | +6,536+0.9% | Added |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | 770,742 | $264.0M | 0.31% | +259,903+50.9% | Added |
| Champlain Investment Partners, LLC | 748,509 | $256.4M | 1.64% | −9,236−1.2% | Reduced |
| Invesco Ltd. | 682,802 | $233.9M | 0.07% | −237,839−25.8% | Reduced |
| FMR LLC | 666,275 | $228.3M | 0.02% | +242,454+57.2% | Added |
| Impax Asset Management Group plc | 656,611 | $224.9M | 1.01% | −62,572−8.7% | Reduced |
| Norges Bank | 630,454 | $216.0M | 0.05% | −118,061−15.8% | Reduced |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 616,013 | $211.0M | 0.08% | −24,468−3.8% | Reduced |
| Mawer Investment Management Ltd. | 600,017 | $205.6M | 1.16% | +3,267+0.5% | Added |
| American Century Companies Inc | 541,302 | $185.4M | 0.15% | +7,455+1.4% | Added |
| Nuveen Asset Management, LLC | 505,457 | $173.2M | 0.07% | +190,128+60.3% | Added |
| Millennium Management LLC | 473,565 | $162.2M | 0.18% | +100,641+27.0% | Added |
| Janus Henderson Group PLC | 404,437 | $138.6M | 0.10% | −15,619−3.7% | Reduced |
| Boston Trust Walden Corp | 404,346 | $138.5M | 1.22% | +12,347+3.1% | Added |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 369,278 | $126.5M | 0.04% | +10,145+2.8% | Added |
| UBS Asset Management Americas Inc | 367,561 | $125.9M | 0.07% | −5,531−1.5% | Reduced |
| Pictet Asset Management SA | 348,586 | $119.4M | 0.17% | +289,448+489.4% | Added |
| Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership | 345,119 | $118.2M | 0.17% | +33,614+10.8% | Added |
| Bank of America Corp | 339,352 | $116.3M | 0.01% | −31,678−8.5% | Reduced |
| Nordea Investment Management AB | 331,513 | $112.6M | 0.18% | −4,357−1.3% | Reduced |
| Amundi | 316,861 | $108.6M | 0.06% | −37,322−10.5% | Reduced |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 299,389 | $102.6M | 0.04% | +3,463+1.2% | Added |
| Intech Investment Management LLC | 258,065 | $88.4M | 0.66% | −38,059−12.9% | Reduced |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. | 251,990 | $86.3M | 0.07% | −48,462−16.1% | Reduced |
| Swiss National Bank | 243,400 | $83.4M | 0.06% | −17,611−6.7% | Reduced |
| Newport Trust Co | 233,225 | $79.9M | 0.22% | −8,591−3.6% | Reduced |
| Schroder Investment Management Group | 231,607 | $79.3M | 0.13% | −2,320−1.0% | Reduced |
| Beck Mack & Oliver LLC | 229,298 | $78.6M | 2.31% | −1,938−0.8% | Reduced |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 228,863 | $78.4M | 0.02% | −108,827−32.2% | Reduced |
| Bank of Montreal | 220,791 | $76.8M | 0.06% | +85,746+63.5% | Added |
| DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale | 217,778 | $74.5M | 0.20% | +4,394+2.1% | Added |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 212,845 | $72.9M | 0.09% | +47,472+28.7% | Added |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 203,088 | $69.6M | 0.04% | +1,663+0.8% | Added |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 200,690 | $68.8M | 0.02% | −8,281−4.0% | Reduced |
| Standard Life Aberdeen plc | 179,532 | $61.5M | 0.17% | +17,109+10.5% | Added |
| Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC | 173,030 | $59.3M | 0.10% | +164,340+1,891.1% | Added |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 165,512 | $56.7M | 0.08% | +3,277+2.0% | Added |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 163,157 | $55.9M | 0.01% | −513,018−75.9% | Reduced |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp | 159,202 | $54.5M | 0.14% | +3,627+2.3% | Added |
| KBC Group NV | 152,845 | $52.4M | 0.25% | −3,580−2.3% | Reduced |
| TD Asset Management Inc | 148,669 | $50.9M | 0.06% | +2,222+1.5% | Added |
| Anchor Capital Advisors LLC | 145,209 | $49.7M | 1.28% | −3,024−2.0% | Reduced |
| California Public Employees Retirement System | 135,845 | $46.5M | 0.04% | +1,333+1.0% | Added |
| Robeco Schweiz AG | 135,513 | $46.4M | 0.85% | +101,757+301.4% | Added |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 131,275 | $45.0M | 0.06% | −20.0% | Reduced |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 130,517 | $44.7M | 0.02% | +41,839+47.2% | Added |
| Glenmede Trust Co NA | 122,691 | $42.0M | 0.25% | −3,200−2.5% | Reduced |
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co | 121,095 | $41.5M | 0.04% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Credit Suisse AG | 121,012 | $41.5M | 0.04% | +12,525+11.5% | Added |
| AQR Capital Management LLC | 108,287 | $36.8M | 0.08% | −44,922−29.3% | Reduced |
| Point72 Asset Management, L.P. | 105,522 | $36.1M | 0.14% | −13,581−11.4% | Reduced |
| Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc | 102,376 | $35.1M | 3.72% | −2,417−2.3% | Reduced |
| Aviva PLC | 101,421 | $34.7M | 0.17% | +9,510+10.3% | Added |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 99,703 | $34.2M | 0.00% | −25,293−20.2% | Reduced |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 99,478 | $34.1M | 0.05% | +60+0.1% | Added |
| National Pension Service | 98,062 | $33.6M | 0.07% | −1,970−2.0% | Reduced |
| BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. | 97,734 | $33.5M | 0.12% | +5,583+6.1% | Added |
| PFM Health Sciences, LP | 94,624 | $32.4M | 1.37% | −23,010−19.6% | Reduced |
| Two Sigma Advisers, LP | 89,700 | $30.7M | 0.09% | +15,300+20.6% | Added |
| Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. | 87,908 | $30.1M | 0.18% | +7,926+9.9% | Added |
| AXA S.A. | 83,633 | $28.7M | 0.10% | +2,144+2.6% | Added |
| Capital Fund Management S.A. | 81,555 | $27.9M | 0.62% | +32,538+66.4% | Added |
| Balyasny Asset Management LLC | 81,022 | $27.8M | 0.10% | −84,038−50.9% | Reduced |
| Northwest & Ethical Investments L.P. | 80,734 | $27.7M | 0.96% | −5,063−5.9% | Reduced |
| Barclays PLC | 80,075 | $27.4M | 0.02% | +15,813+24.6% | Added |
| Investment Management Corp of Ontario | 80,000 | $27.4M | 1.34% | +5,000+6.7% | Added |
| Thrivent Financial for Lutherans | 76,449 | $26.2M | 0.07% | −31,044−28.9% | Reduced |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 76,298 | $26.1M | 0.01% | +234+0.3% | Added |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | 74,150 | $25.4M | 0.02% | −1,889−2.5% | Reduced |
| State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System | 71,969 | $24.7M | 0.06% | −1,340−1.8% | Reduced |
| Umb Bank N A | 70,857 | $24.3M | 0.38% | −310.0% | Reduced |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 70,079 | $24.0M | 0.01% | −55,545−44.2% | Reduced |
| Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC | 70,066 | $24.0M | 0.07% | −4,329−5.8% | Reduced |
| Los Angeles Capital Management LLC | 69,035 | $23.7M | 0.11% | −130,001−65.3% | Reduced |
| Boston Financial Mangement LLC | 68,875 | $23.6M | 0.95% | −660−0.9% | Reduced |
| Victory Capital Management Inc | 68,758 | $23.6M | 0.03% | +10,264+17.5% | Added |
| New York State Teachers Retirement System | 67,787 | $23.2M | 0.06% | −3,115−4.4% | Reduced |
| Franklin Resources Inc | 66,463 | $22.8M | 0.01% | −20,494−23.6% | Reduced |
| United Capital Financial Advisers, LLC | 65,272 | $22.4M | 0.13% | −308−0.5% | Reduced |
| Allianz Asset Management GmbH | 64,043 | $21.9M | 0.05% | +18,191+39.7% | Added |
| Citigroup Inc | 63,397 | $21.7M | 0.03% | −1,524−2.3% | Reduced |
| APG Asset Management N.V. | 62,488 | $21.4M | 0.04% | +50,651+427.9% | Added |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. | 61,575 | $21.1M | 0.04% | +36,917+149.7% | Added |
| Great West Life Assurance Co | 60,490 | $20.8M | 0.05% | +946+1.6% | Added |
| Adage Capital Partners GP, L.L.C. | 60,465 | $20.7M | 0.05% | −500−0.8% | Reduced |
| Two Sigma Investments, LP | 58,346 | $20.0M | 0.06% | +44,442+319.6% | Added |
| Voloridge Investment Management, LLC | 55,519 | $19.0M | 0.11% | −17,161−23.6% | Reduced |
| Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. | 55,434 | $19.0M | 0.05% | −158,242−74.1% | Reduced |
| Quilter Plc | 55,128 | $18.9M | 0.62% | +13,866+33.6% | Added |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 54,845 | $18.8M | 0.04% | +4,803+9.6% | Added |