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 2025
Institutional positions in Waters Corp as of Dec 31, 2025. 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
- 808
- +65 vs. Q3 2025
- Shares held
- 57.7M
- +502.3K (+0.9%) vs. Q3 2025
- Total value
- $21.9B
- +$4.76B (+27.8%) vs. Q3 2025
- New holders
- 131
- 245 more added
- Sold out
- 66
- 290 more reduced
12 institutions that held it in Q3 2025 haven't filed for Q4 2025 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q3 2025: 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 2025
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Waters Corp; share changes are against Q3 2025.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Group Inc | 7,469,936 | $2.84B | 0.04% | −186,955−2.4% | Reduced |
| BlackRock, Inc. | 5,432,155 | $2.06B | 0.04% | −634,082−10.5% | Reduced |
| Fundsmith LLPSuperinvestorFundsmith | 3,557,978 | $1.35B | 7.90% | −397,520−10.0% | Reduced |
| State Street Corp | 2,683,138 | $1.02B | 0.03% | +3,615+0.1% | Added |
| Massachusetts Financial Services Co | 2,624,715 | $996.9M | 0.32% | −64,978−2.4% | Reduced |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 2,066,898 | $785.1M | 0.25% | −17,545−0.8% | Reduced |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 1,593,388 | $602.9M | 0.04% | +8,590+0.5% | Added |
| Mawer Investment Management Ltd. | 1,298,752 | $493.3M | 2.76% | −252,258−16.3% | Reduced |
| Janus Henderson Group PLC | 1,290,393 | $490.1M | 0.22% | −12,040−0.9% | Reduced |
| Veritas Asset Management LLP | 1,241,206 | $471.4M | 4.82% | +656,436+112.3% | Added |
| Invesco Ltd. | 1,167,216 | $443.3M | 0.04% | −305,203−20.7% | Reduced |
| Fundsmith Investment Services Ltd. | 1,146,209 | $435.4M | 7.96% | −210,080−15.5% | Reduced |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | 870,969 | $330.8M | 0.17% | +1,792+0.2% | Added |
| Ako Capital LLP | 753,455 | $286.2M | 4.36% | −53,493−6.6% | Reduced |
| Morgan Stanley | 719,171 | $273.2M | 0.02% | −18,081−2.5% | Reduced |
| Norges Bank | 699,659 | $265.8M | 0.03% | +699,659 | New |
| Northern Trust Corp | 684,521 | $260.0M | 0.03% | −25,025−3.5% | Reduced |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 671,103 | $254.9M | 0.03% | +561,047+509.8% | Added |
| Bank of America Corp | 585,020 | $222.2M | 0.02% | +41,871+7.7% | Added |
| Marshall Wace, LLP | 581,063 | $220.7M | 0.21% | +547,109+1,611.3% | Added |
| Millennium Management LLC | 538,713 | $204.6M | 0.15% | +516,094+2,281.7% | Added |
| Guardcap Asset Management Ltd | 530,654 | $201.8M | 5.39% | −94,890−15.2% | Reduced |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 506,775 | $192.5M | 0.04% | −30,807−5.7% | Reduced |
| London Co of Virginia | 504,674 | $191.7M | 1.11% | −51,181−9.2% | Reduced |
| UBS Asset Management Americas Inc | 494,067 | $187.7M | 0.04% | −4,276−0.9% | Reduced |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 468,221 | $177.8M | 0.03% | +284,699+155.1% | Added |
| Findlay Park Partners LLP | 458,469 | $174.1M | 2.22% | −92,600−16.8% | Reduced |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 453,267 | $172.2M | 0.03% | −1,018−0.2% | Reduced |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 433,906 | $164.8M | 0.01% | +101,459+30.5% | Added |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 433,682 | $164.7M | 0.04% | −5,024−1.1% | Reduced |
| Holocene Advisors, LP | 411,710 | $156.4M | 0.33% | +103,219+33.5% | Added |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 401,804 | $152.6M | 0.11% | +26,292+7.0% | Added |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 395,352 | $150.1M | 0.09% | −103,748−20.8% | Reduced |
| Beck Mack & Oliver LLC | 390,655 | $148.4M | 2.69% | −4,371−1.1% | Reduced |
| Artisan Partners Limited Partnership | 373,708 | $141.9M | 0.22% | +18,809+5.3% | Added |
| Amundi | 359,846 | $136.7M | 0.04% | −57,893−13.9% | Reduced |
| UBS Group AG | 355,955 | $135.2M | 0.03% | +151,102+73.8% | Added |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. | 352,010 | $133.7M | 0.10% | +60,161+20.6% | Added |
| Voya Investment Management LLC | 350,927 | $133.0M | 0.13% | +195,266+125.4% | Added |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 323,230 | $122.8M | 0.02% | −17,742−5.2% | Reduced |
| Champlain Investment Partners, LLC | 312,768 | $118.8M | 1.20% | −62,122−16.6% | Reduced |
| Madison Asset Management, LLC | 293,164 | $111.4M | 1.28% | −14,529−4.7% | Reduced |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 285,474 | $108.4M | 0.04% | −76,404−21.1% | Reduced |
| Wellington Management Group LLP | 272,722 | $103.6M | 0.02% | −90,810−25.0% | Reduced |
| Colony Group, LLC | 271,761 | $103.2M | 0.12% | +263,421+3,158.5% | Added |
| TD Asset Management Inc | 249,598 | $94.8M | 0.08% | −426−0.2% | Reduced |
| Natixis Advisors, L.P. | 244,898 | $93.0M | 0.13% | +46,225+23.3% | Added |
| Impax Asset Management Group plc | 232,249 | $88.2M | 0.55% | −31,297−11.9% | Reduced |
| Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. | 222,473 | $84.5M | 0.48% | +2,356+1.1% | Added |
| Nuveen, LLC | 197,909 | $75.2M | 0.02% | +42,937+27.7% | Added |
| Balyasny Asset Management LLC | 185,126 | $70.3M | 0.13% | +185,126 | New |
| Newport Trust Co | 175,530 | $66.7M | 0.16% | −8,884−4.8% | Reduced |
| Swiss National Bank | 163,120 | $62.0M | 0.04% | −8,480−4.9% | Reduced |
| FMR LLC | 160,156 | $60.8M | 0.00% | +86,169+116.5% | Added |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 155,324 | $59.0M | 0.01% | −90,832−36.9% | Reduced |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | 139,485 | $53.0M | 0.04% | +89,864+181.1% | Added |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. | 136,267 | $51.8M | 0.03% | −3,489−2.5% | Reduced |
| T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. | 134,532 | $51.1M | 0.03% | −46,730−25.8% | Reduced |
| Robeco Schweiz AG | 132,093 | $50.2M | 1.12% | −215,708−62.0% | Reduced |
| Mackenzie Financial Corp | 129,108 | $49.5M | 0.06% | −102,744−44.3% | Reduced |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co., Ltd. | 125,584 | $48.0M | 0.03% | +6,715+5.6% | Added |
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co | 121,095 | $46.0M | 0.04% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 115,185 | $43.8M | 0.04% | −17,610−13.3% | Reduced |
| Envestnet Asset Management Inc | 114,591 | $43.5M | 0.01% | +3,177+2.9% | Added |
| Boston Trust Walden Corp | 112,407 | $42.7M | 0.32% | −9,977−8.2% | Reduced |
| California Public Employees Retirement System | 110,349 | $41.9M | 0.02% | −611−0.6% | Reduced |
| Barclays PLC | 109,811 | $41.7M | 0.02% | −52,578−32.4% | Reduced |
| National Pension Service | 108,535 | $41.2M | 0.03% | +1,176+1.1% | Added |
| BNP Paribas Arbitrage, SA | 106,303 | $40.4M | 0.03% | −6,715−5.9% | Reduced |
| Citigroup Inc | 106,127 | $40.3M | 0.03% | +74,080+231.2% | Added |
| Iron Triangle Partners LP | 105,167 | $39.9M | 4.57% | +105,167 | New |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 104,315 | $39.6M | 0.01% | +22,313+27.2% | Added |
| Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc | 104,050 | $39.5M | 2.86% | −1,620−1.5% | Reduced |
| BLI - Banque de Luxembourg Investments | 100,920 | $38.7M | 1.14% | −48,480−32.4% | Reduced |
| Raymond James Financial Inc | 97,293 | $37.0M | 0.01% | −8,628−8.1% | Reduced |
| Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc | 91,740 | $34.8M | 0.06% | −16,342−15.1% | Reduced |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 91,666 | $34.8M | 0.03% | −4,485−4.7% | Reduced |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 90,233 | $34.3M | 0.01% | +53,151+143.3% | Added |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH | 85,465 | $32.7M | 0.05% | −10,632−11.1% | Reduced |
| Captrust Financial Advisors | 85,798 | $32.6M | 0.06% | −156−0.2% | Reduced |
| Woodline Partners LP | 81,413 | $30.9M | 0.12% | −34,052−29.5% | Reduced |
| Oversea-Chinese Banking CORP Ltd | 80,827 | $30.7M | 0.85% | −4,358−5.1% | Reduced |
| Jain Global LLC | 80,712 | $30.7M | 0.30% | +17,431+27.5% | Added |
| Danske Bank A/S | 76,639 | $29.1M | 0.07% | +55,152+256.7% | Added |
| SEI Investments Co | 75,209 | $28.6M | 0.03% | +16,449+28.0% | Added |
| Neuberger Berman Group LLC | 74,515 | $28.3M | 0.02% | −1,894−2.5% | Reduced |
| Standard Life Aberdeen plc | 73,863 | $28.1M | 0.04% | −2,721−3.6% | Reduced |
| Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, The | 73,375 | $28.0M | 0.02% | +1,334+1.9% | Added |
| Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc. | 73,285 | $27.8M | 0.09% | +6,301+9.4% | Added |
| Smith Group Asset Management, LLC | 72,648 | $27.6M | 1.46% | +4,586+6.7% | Added |
| Gotham Asset Management, LLC | 70,057 | $26.6M | 0.10% | −251−0.4% | Reduced |
| HRT Financial LP | 68,444 | $26.0M | 0.08% | +68,444 | New |
| Quantinno Capital Management LP | 67,057 | $25.5M | 0.05% | +18,736+38.8% | Added |
| Point72 Asset Management, L.P. | 62,956 | $23.9M | 0.04% | +37,079+143.3% | Added |
| Zurcher Kantonalbank (Zurich Cantonalbank) | 61,588 | $23.4M | 0.05% | +3,287+5.6% | Added |
| Franklin Resources Inc | 60,878 | $23.1M | 0.01% | −26,196−30.1% | Reduced |
| Jane Street Group, LLC | 60,121 | $22.8M | 0.03% | +57,057+1,862.2% | Added |
| Investment Management Corp of Ontario | 59,956 | $22.8M | 0.30% | −20,763−25.7% | Reduced |
| Caisse de Depot Et Placement du Quebec | 58,154 | $22.1M | 0.04% | −19,088−24.7% | Reduced |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 57,549 | $21.9M | 0.02% | +6,537+12.8% | Added |