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, Q1 2024
Institutional positions in Waters Corp as of Mar 31, 2024. 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
- 689
- +19 vs. Q4 2023
- Shares held
- 58.5M
- −557.4K (−0.9%) vs. Q4 2023
- Total value
- $20.1B
- +$677.7M (+3.5%) vs. Q4 2023
- New holders
- 74
- 190 more added
- Sold out
- 55
- 275 more reduced
4 institutions that held it in Q4 2023 haven't filed for Q1 2024 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q4 2023: 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, Q1 2024
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Waters Corp; share changes are against Q4 2023.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Group Inc | 6,879,316 | $2.37B | 0.05% | +41,654+0.6% | Added |
| BlackRock Inc. | 5,579,670 | $1.92B | 0.04% | −55,623−1.0% | Reduced |
| Fundsmith LLPSuperinvestorFundsmith | 3,766,251 | $1.30B | 5.07% | −34,437−0.9% | Reduced |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 3,397,466 | $1.17B | 0.22% | −60,878−1.8% | Reduced |
| Massachusetts Financial Services Co | 2,887,799 | $994.1M | 0.30% | −167,139−5.5% | Reduced |
| State Street Corp | 2,537,492 | $873.5M | 0.04% | +22,787+0.9% | Added |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 2,285,307 | $786.7M | 0.28% | +256,657+12.7% | Added |
| Generation Investment Management LLP | 1,527,595 | $525.8M | 2.40% | −119,391−7.2% | Reduced |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 1,353,206 | $464.6M | 0.04% | +41,962+3.2% | Added |
| Fundsmith Investment Services Ltd. | 1,137,804 | $391.7M | 5.21% | +3,121+0.3% | Added |
| Guardcap Asset Management Ltd | 1,110,898 | $382.4M | 4.69% | +11,851+1.1% | Added |
| Wellington Management Group LLP | 1,012,850 | $348.7M | 0.06% | +200,726+24.7% | Added |
| Invesco Ltd. | 932,873 | $321.1M | 0.07% | −94,835−9.2% | Reduced |
| Nordea Investment Management AB | 923,217 | $317.7M | 0.38% | −50,320−5.2% | Reduced |
| Ako Capital LLP | 838,763 | $288.7M | 4.09% | +66,841+8.7% | Added |
| Champlain Investment Partners, LLC | 765,654 | $263.6M | 1.51% | −19,475−2.5% | Reduced |
| Impax Asset Management Group plc | 714,371 | $245.9M | 0.94% | −30,292−4.1% | Reduced |
| Janus Henderson Group PLC | 705,859 | $243.0M | 0.13% | −3,215−0.5% | Reduced |
| Norges Bank | 682,141 | $234.8M | 0.04% | +55,570+8.9% | Added |
| Northern Trust Corp | 616,897 | $212.4M | 0.04% | −57,928−8.6% | Reduced |
| Van Eck Associates Corp | 601,039 | $206.9M | 0.31% | +38,046+6.8% | Added |
| London Co of Virginia | 592,699 | $204.0M | 1.07% | +6,034+1.0% | Added |
| Mawer Investment Management Ltd. | 583,853 | $201.0M | 0.93% | −16,583−2.8% | Reduced |
| Morgan Stanley | 568,522 | $195.7M | 0.02% | −36,372−6.0% | Reduced |
| Boston Trust Walden Corp | 547,139 | $188.3M | 1.34% | −34,909−6.0% | Reduced |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 497,291 | $171.2M | 0.05% | −26,272−5.0% | Reduced |
| TD Asset Management Inc | 443,493 | $152.7M | 0.14% | +18,274+4.3% | Added |
| Bank of America Corp | 431,034 | $148.4M | 0.01% | +47,686+12.4% | Added |
| UBS Asset Management Americas Inc | 389,952 | $134.2M | 0.05% | −4,523−1.1% | Reduced |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | 377,269 | $129.9M | 0.08% | +2,456+0.7% | Added |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 370,353 | $127.5M | 0.03% | +23,541+6.8% | Added |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 369,395 | $127.2M | 0.03% | +12,138+3.4% | Added |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 332,603 | $114.5M | 0.12% | +128,768+63.2% | Added |
| American Century Companies Inc | 320,803 | $110.4M | 0.07% | −3,615−1.1% | Reduced |
| Findlay Park Partners LLP | 303,369 | $104.4M | 0.96% | −69,600−18.7% | Reduced |
| Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. | 291,707 | $100.4M | 0.22% | +42,210+16.9% | Added |
| Voya Investment Management LLC | 269,226 | $92.5M | 0.09% | +35,417+15.1% | Added |
| Amundi | 297,648 | $87.6M | 0.04% | −54,758−15.5% | Reduced |
| Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. | 253,472 | $87.3M | 0.39% | −6,219−2.4% | Reduced |
| Beck Mack & Oliver LLC | 245,635 | $84.6M | 1.71% | +1,728+0.7% | Added |
| Robeco Schweiz AG | 244,924 | $84.3M | 1.47% | −77,618−24.1% | Reduced |
| Standard Life Aberdeen plc | 243,332 | $83.8M | 0.16% | +13,934+6.1% | Added |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 232,030 | $79.9M | 0.02% | −12,422−5.1% | Reduced |
| Fenimore Asset Management Inc | 229,223 | $78.9M | 1.67% | +1,973+0.9% | Added |
| Madison Asset Management, LLC | 214,329 | $73.8M | 0.91% | +26,846+14.3% | Added |
| Newport Trust Co | 207,017 | $71.3M | 0.19% | −7,630−3.6% | Reduced |
| C WorldWide Group Holding A/S | 204,664 | $70.5M | 0.80% | +135,467+195.8% | Added |
| Artisan Partners Limited Partnership | 197,767 | $68.1M | 0.10% | −1,552−0.8% | Reduced |
| Mackenzie Financial Corp | 194,589 | $67.0M | 0.10% | +3,087+1.6% | Added |
| Nuveen Asset Management, LLC | 194,180 | $66.8M | 0.02% | −17,361−8.2% | Reduced |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 193,273 | $66.5M | 0.03% | −5,900−3.0% | Reduced |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 190,491 | $65.6M | 0.01% | +98,705+107.5% | Added |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 186,030 | $64.0M | 0.05% | +10,306+5.9% | Added |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 178,337 | $61.4M | 0.08% | −30,318−14.5% | Reduced |
| Swiss National Bank | 177,000 | $60.9M | 0.04% | −7,800−4.2% | Reduced |
| Cambiar Investors LLC | 170,198 | $58.6M | 2.18% | −1,308−0.8% | Reduced |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. | 139,936 | $48.2M | 0.03% | −3,122−2.2% | Reduced |
| Mercer Global Advisors Inc | 136,231 | $47.0M | 0.13% | −524−0.4% | Reduced |
| Bank of Montreal | 134,411 | $46.6M | 0.02% | −12,472−8.5% | Reduced |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 132,608 | $45.6M | 0.01% | +1,905+1.5% | Added |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 125,556 | $43.2M | 0.04% | −171−0.1% | Reduced |
| Barclays PLC | 122,626 | $42.2M | 0.02% | −29,217−19.2% | Reduced |
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co | 121,095 | $41.7M | 0.04% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc | 108,235 | $37.3M | 3.11% | −1,218−1.1% | Reduced |
| Credit Suisse AG | 104,133 | $35.8M | 0.03% | −4,018−3.7% | Reduced |
| UBS Group AG | 104,044 | $35.8M | 0.01% | +91,073+702.1% | Added |
| Northwest & Ethical Investments L.P. | 101,939 | $35.1M | 1.01% | −1,105−1.1% | Reduced |
| Raymond James & Associates | 101,614 | $35.0M | 0.02% | −26,265−20.5% | Reduced |
| Glenmede Trust Co NA | 100,155 | $34.5M | 0.17% | −12,281−10.9% | Reduced |
| National Pension Service | 99,482 | $34.2M | 0.04% | −3,873−3.7% | Reduced |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 94,092 | $32.4M | 0.04% | +498+0.5% | Added |
| Aviva PLC | 93,229 | $32.1M | 0.11% | −4,868−5.0% | Reduced |
| Primecap Management Co | 92,159 | $31.7M | 0.02% | −100−0.1% | Reduced |
| Oversea-Chinese Banking CORP Ltd | 88,370 | $30.4M | 0.98% | +16,405+22.8% | Added |
| BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. | 87,125 | $30.0M | 0.08% | −32,661−27.3% | Reduced |
| BNP Paribas Arbitrage, SA | 86,834 | $29.9M | 0.04% | +19,810+29.6% | Added |
| Envestnet Asset Management Inc | 86,740 | $29.9M | 0.01% | +1,776+2.1% | Added |
| Boston Financial Mangement LLC | 86,536 | $29.8M | 0.95% | −1,324−1.5% | Reduced |
| California Public Employees Retirement System | 85,823 | $29.5M | 0.02% | −1,774−2.0% | Reduced |
| Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, The | 84,274 | $29.0M | 0.03% | +1,074+1.3% | Added |
| FMR LLC | 80,913 | $27.9M | 0.00% | +515+0.6% | Added |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 80,313 | $27.6M | 0.00% | +535+0.7% | Added |
| Nuance Investments, LLC | 77,368 | $26.6M | 0.70% | −341,995−81.6% | Reduced |
| DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale | 76,166 | $26.2M | 0.05% | −20,172−20.9% | Reduced |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co., Ltd. | 72,360 | $24.9M | 0.03% | +16,471+29.5% | Added |
| Squarepoint Ops LLC | 71,341 | $24.6M | 0.10% | +69,739+4,353.2% | Added |
| Investment Management Corp of Ontario | 65,915 | $22.7M | 0.67% | −15,500−19.0% | Reduced |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 65,842 | $22.7M | 0.01% | −30,176−31.4% | Reduced |
| Natixis Advisors, L.P. | 63,681 | $21.9M | 0.05% | +28,416+80.6% | Added |
| State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System | 69,979 | $21.7M | 0.05% | +5,655+8.8% | Added |
| Danske Bank A/S | 62,626 | $21.6M | 0.07% | +62,626 | New |
| Quilter Plc | 62,035 | $21.4M | 0.50% | −8,053−11.5% | Reduced |
| New York State Teachers Retirement System | 57,190 | $19.7M | 0.04% | −997−1.7% | Reduced |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 54,881 | $18.9M | 0.01% | −93,337−63.0% | Reduced |
| Great West Life Assurance Co | 54,767 | $18.9M | 0.04% | −2,004−3.5% | Reduced |
| Jensen Investment Management Inc | 54,342 | $18.7M | 0.14% | −4,290−7.3% | Reduced |
| LGT Group Foundation | 51,728 | $17.8M | 0.42% | −3,887−7.0% | Reduced |
| Susquehanna Portfolio Strategies, LLC | 50,925 | $17.5M | 0.41% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Baillie Gifford & Co | 50,634 | $17.4M | 0.01% | −4,472−8.1% | Reduced |
| AXA S.A. | 47,744 | $16.4M | 0.05% | −12,348−20.5% | Reduced |