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 2026
Institutional positions in Waters Corp as of Mar 31, 2026. 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
- 1,178
- +384 vs. Q4 2025
- Shares held
- 94.9M
- +45.5M (+92.2%) vs. Q4 2025
- Total value
- $29.1B
- +$10.4B (+55.2%) vs. Q4 2025
- New holders
- 466
- 576 more added
- Sold out
- 82
- 108 more reduced
14 institutions that held it in Q4 2025 haven't filed for Q1 2026 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q4 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, Q1 2026
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Waters Corp; share changes are against Q4 2025.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. | 8,543,014 | $2.54B | 0.04% | +3,110,859+57.3% | Added |
| Massachusetts Financial Services Co | 4,630,118 | $2.06B | 0.69% | +2,005,403+76.4% | Added |
| Vanguard Capital Management LLC | 6,378,775 | $1.90B | 0.05% | +6,378,775 | New |
| Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC | 4,754,185 | $1.42B | 0.07% | +4,754,185 | New |
| T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. | 4,663,879 | $1.39B | 0.96% | +4,529,347+3,366.7% | Added |
| State Street Corp | 4,362,010 | $1.30B | 0.04% | +1,678,872+62.6% | Added |
| Fundsmith LLPSuperinvestorFundsmith | 3,212,075 | $956.6M | 7.46% | −345,903−9.7% | Reduced |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 2,116,737 | $804.0M | 0.26% | +49,839+2.4% | Added |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 2,646,458 | $785.1M | 0.05% | +1,053,070+66.1% | Added |
| Invesco Ltd. | 2,168,285 | $645.7M | 0.06% | +1,001,069+85.8% | Added |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1,973,648 | $579.0M | 0.04% | +1,539,742+354.9% | Added |
| Janus Henderson Group PLC | 1,638,772 | $488.0M | 0.23% | +348,379+27.0% | Added |
| First Eagle Investment Management, LLC | 1,575,187 | $469.1M | 0.80% | +1,575,187 | New |
| Mawer Investment Management Ltd. | 1,403,627 | $418.0M | 2.71% | +104,875+8.1% | Added |
| Viking Global Investors LPSuperinvestorViking Global Investors | 1,256,462 | $374.2M | 1.05% | +1,256,462 | New |
| Morgan Stanley | 1,221,914 | $363.9M | 0.02% | +502,743+69.9% | Added |
| Veritas Asset Management LLP | 1,200,813 | $357.6M | 6.06% | −40,393−3.3% | Reduced |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 1,124,028 | $334.7M | 0.04% | +452,925+67.5% | Added |
| Fundsmith Investment Services Ltd. | 1,096,855 | $326.6M | 7.41% | −49,354−4.3% | Reduced |
| Northern Trust Corp | 1,042,394 | $310.4M | 0.04% | +357,873+52.3% | Added |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. | 1,025,240 | $305.3M | 0.24% | +673,230+191.3% | Added |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | 1,019,289 | $303.6M | 0.16% | +148,320+17.0% | Added |
| Holocene Advisors, LP | 917,066 | $273.1M | 0.66% | +505,356+122.7% | Added |
| Bank of America Corp | 843,636 | $251.2M | 0.02% | +258,616+44.2% | Added |
| Ako Capital LLP | 816,929 | $243.3M | 4.76% | +63,474+8.4% | Added |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 814,716 | $242.6M | 0.05% | +307,941+60.8% | Added |
| Wellington Management Group LLP | 811,326 | $241.6M | 0.05% | +538,604+197.5% | Added |
| UBS Asset Management Americas Inc | 794,589 | $236.6M | 0.05% | +300,522+60.8% | Added |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 772,524 | $230.1M | 0.04% | +319,257+70.4% | Added |
| Franklin Resources Inc | 709,538 | $211.3M | 0.05% | +648,660+1,065.5% | Added |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 695,644 | $207.2M | 0.05% | +605,411+670.9% | Added |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 684,813 | $203.9M | 0.05% | +251,131+57.9% | Added |
| UBS Group AG | 640,339 | $190.7M | 0.03% | +284,384+79.9% | Added |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 563,060 | $167.7M | 0.02% | +94,839+20.3% | Added |
| Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co | 556,148 | $165.6M | 0.04% | +556,148 | New |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 535,684 | $159.5M | 0.05% | +250,210+87.6% | Added |
| Artisan Partners Limited Partnership | 534,576 | $159.2M | 0.26% | +160,868+43.0% | Added |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 528,908 | $157.5M | 0.03% | +205,678+63.6% | Added |
| Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, The | 525,246 | $156.4M | 0.13% | +451,871+615.8% | Added |
| FMR LLC | 502,814 | $149.7M | 0.01% | +342,658+214.0% | Added |
| Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC | 488,854 | $146.6M | 0.25% | +486,198+18,305.6% | Added |
| Voya Investment Management LLC | 486,579 | $144.5M | 0.15% | +135,652+38.7% | Added |
| Clearbridge Investments, LLC | 478,271 | $142.4M | 0.12% | +478,271 | New |
| Colony Group, LLC | 474,862 | $141.4M | 0.16% | +203,101+74.7% | Added |
| Findlay Park Partners LLP | 467,245 | $139.1M | 1.94% | +8,776+1.9% | Added |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 465,000 | $138.5M | 0.08% | +69,648+17.6% | Added |
| Beck Mack & Oliver LLC | 432,206 | $128.7M | 2.65% | +41,551+10.6% | Added |
| Amundi | 432,146 | $128.7M | 0.04% | +72,300+20.1% | Added |
| Neuberger Berman Group LLC | 382,948 | $114.0M | 0.09% | +308,433+413.9% | Added |
| London Co of Virginia | 355,310 | $105.8M | 0.65% | −149,364−29.6% | Reduced |
| Point72 Asset Management, L.P. | 354,375 | $105.5M | 0.18% | +291,419+462.9% | Added |
| Schroder Investment Management Group | 316,203 | $94.2M | 0.08% | +291,392+1,174.4% | Added |
| Impax Asset Management Group plc | 314,584 | $93.7M | 0.65% | +82,335+35.5% | Added |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 303,112 | $90.3M | 0.06% | −98,692−24.6% | Reduced |
| Liontrust Investment Partners LLP | 298,855 | $89.0M | 1.52% | +293,169+5,156.0% | Added |
| Harris Associates L PSuperinvestorHarris Associates (Oakmark) | 288,712 | $86.0M | 0.11% | +288,712 | New |
| Swiss National Bank | 288,614 | $85.9M | 0.05% | +125,494+76.9% | Added |
| Champlain Investment Partners, LLC | 279,840 | $83.3M | 1.06% | −32,928−10.5% | Reduced |
| Nuveen, LLC | 277,703 | $82.7M | 0.02% | +79,794+40.3% | Added |
| Madison Asset Management, LLC | 272,649 | $81.2M | 1.01% | −20,515−7.0% | Reduced |
| Cooke & Bieler LP | 268,853 | $80.1M | 0.91% | +268,853 | New |
| First Pacific Advisors, LP | 267,472 | $79.7M | 1.12% | +267,472 | New |
| TD Asset Management Inc | 266,536 | $79.4M | 0.06% | +16,938+6.8% | Added |
| Nordea Investment Management AB | 266,828 | $78.9M | 0.07% | +253,278+1,869.2% | Added |
| Natixis Advisors, L.P. | 257,380 | $76.6M | 0.11% | +12,482+5.1% | Added |
| LPL Financial LLC | 253,713 | $75.6M | 0.02% | +224,964+782.5% | Added |
| American Century Companies Inc | 235,371 | $70.1M | 0.04% | +215,048+1,058.2% | Added |
| Jones Financial Companies LLLP | 236,792 | $68.5M | 0.03% | +236,358+54,460.4% | Added |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 228,857 | $68.2M | 0.01% | +73,533+47.3% | Added |
| Marshall Wace, LLP | 226,886 | $67.6M | 0.07% | −354,177−61.0% | Reduced |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co., Ltd. | 224,646 | $66.9M | 0.04% | +99,062+78.9% | Added |
| Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. | 224,431 | $66.8M | 0.40% | +1,958+0.9% | Added |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. | 223,324 | $66.5M | 0.04% | +87,057+63.9% | Added |
| Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC | 214,292 | $63.8M | 0.03% | +214,292 | New |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | 208,503 | $62.1M | 0.04% | +69,018+49.5% | Added |
| Meridiem Capital Partners LP | 207,814 | $61.9M | 4.07% | +207,814 | New |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 207,364 | $61.8M | 0.01% | +103,049+98.8% | Added |
| Bristol John W & Co Inc | 199,532 | $59.4M | 0.98% | +199,532 | New |
| SEI Investments Co | 197,565 | $58.8M | 0.05% | +122,356+162.7% | Added |
| State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co | 189,881 | $56.5M | 0.04% | +68,786+56.8% | Added |
| Millennium Management LLC | 185,168 | $55.1M | 0.04% | −353,545−65.6% | Reduced |
| Newport Trust Co | 183,921 | $54.8M | 0.13% | +8,391+4.8% | Added |
| Barclays PLC | 180,779 | $53.8M | 0.02% | +70,968+64.6% | Added |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 178,037 | $53.0M | 0.05% | +62,852+54.6% | Added |
| Vanguard Asset Management, Ltd | 169,723 | $50.5M | 0.04% | +169,723 | New |
| National Pension Service | 167,373 | $49.8M | 0.04% | +58,838+54.2% | Added |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 154,059 | $45.9M | 0.05% | +62,393+68.1% | Added |
| Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership | 148,660 | $44.3M | 0.02% | +99,285+201.1% | Added |
| Mackenzie Financial Corp | 145,950 | $43.5M | 0.05% | +16,842+13.0% | Added |
| Robeco Schweiz AG | 144,872 | $43.1M | 0.91% | +12,779+9.7% | Added |
| Citigroup Inc | 144,202 | $42.9M | 0.03% | +38,075+35.9% | Added |
| BNP Paribas Arbitrage, SA | 142,167 | $42.3M | 0.03% | +35,864+33.7% | Added |
| California Public Employees Retirement System | 138,423 | $41.2M | 0.03% | +28,074+25.4% | Added |
| BLI - Banque de Luxembourg Investments | 100,920 | $38.1M | 1.14% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc. | 127,059 | $37.8M | 0.13% | +53,774+73.4% | Added |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH | 126,004 | $37.5M | 0.06% | +40,539+47.4% | Added |
| Standard Life Aberdeen plc | 125,534 | $37.4M | 0.06% | +51,671+70.0% | Added |
| Envestnet Asset Management Inc | 119,470 | $35.6M | 0.01% | +4,879+4.3% | Added |
| Raymond James Financial Inc | 115,325 | $34.3M | 0.01% | +18,032+18.5% | Added |
| SG Americas Securities, LLC | 115,069 | $34.3M | 0.04% | +77,825+209.0% | Added |