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How Waters Corporation stacks up
WAT · against 64 other Healthcare companies of similar size
Profitability
43/ 100
Near the bottom of its peers.
Ranked #58 of 65 · scores higher than 11% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score1 peers with a profitability score of 40–49, including WAT · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 43?
Weighted metrics compared with all Healthcare companies.Its metrics sit close to the Healthcare norm.
- a lower return on invested capital: weaker than 61% of peers. Return on invested capital: 1.3% vs peer median 4.7%
- Return on assets is close to the peer norm. Return on assets: 0.7% vs peer median 1.7%
- Operating margin is close to the peer norm. Operating margin: 7.1% vs peer median 7.1%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = WAT, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | WAT | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 61 reported | 1.3% | 11.5% | 15% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 63 reported | 7.1% | 19.8% | 18% | 33% | |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 63 reported | 0.7% | 5.5% | 11% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 59 reported | 1.9% | 12.9% | 12% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 65 reported | 56.3% | 57.2% | 48% | Context only |
Ranking by profitability score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around WAT| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11.26T JPY (≈$76.6B) | 99 | 72 | |
| 1 | 52.9B USD | 99 | 57 | |
| 3 | 8.24T JPY (≈$56.0B) | 98 | 75 | |
| 3 | 23.8B USD | 98 | 84 | |
| 5 | 193.6B HKD (≈$24.8B) | 97 | 78 | |
| 54 | 54.0B USD | 53 | 47 | |
| 54 | 154.4B BRL (≈$27.8B) | 53 | 43 | |
| 56 | 89.7B USD | 52 | 50 | |
| 57 | 50.2B USD | 50 | 49 | |
| 58 | 45.2B USD | 43 | 46 | |
| 59 | 66.3B USD | 37 | 30 | |
| 60 | 33.3B USD | 27 | 24 | |
| 61 | 56.0B USD | 26 | 39 | |
| 62 | 23.5B USD | 14 | 27 |
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score