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Waters EPS WAT

Diluted earnings per share by quarter and over the last twelve months, from 2008.

Last 12 months, to Jul 4, 2026
$4.01
Latest quarter, Q2 FY26
−$1.39
−156% on a year earlier
Fiscal year 2025
$10.77
+1% on the year before

Waters' earnings per share was $4.01 over the twelve months to Jul 4, 2026, down 64% on a year earlier.

In its latest quarter, Q2 FY26, it was −$1.39, down 156% on the same quarter a year before.

Over the five fiscal years to FY2025 it grew 5% a year on average.

Earnings per share over time

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Fiscal year by fiscal year

Fiscal yearEPSChange
FY2025$10.77+1%
FY2024$10.71−1%
FY2023$10.85−8%
FY2022$11.75+5%
FY2021$11.18+34%
FY2020$8.36−5%
FY2019$8.78+14%
FY2018$7.67+3937%
FY2017$0.19−97%
FY2016$6.40+13%
FY2015$5.66+11%
FY2014$5.09−2%
FY2013$5.21+0%
FY2012$5.19+11%
FY2011$4.69+15%

Each fiscal year is the twelve months to its fourth quarter.

Quarter by quarter

QuarterEndedEPSOn a year earlierLast 12 months
Q2 FY26−$1.39−156%$4.01
Q1 FY26−$0.87−143%$7.87
Q4 FY25$3.77−3%$10.77
Q3 FY25$2.50−8%$10.88
Q2 FY25$2.47+3%$11.09
Q1 FY25$2.03+18%$11.02
Q4 FY24$3.88+6%$10.71
Q3 FY24$2.71+19%$10.48
Q2 FY24$2.40−6%$10.04
Q1 FY24$1.72−28%$10.19
Q4 FY23$3.65−4%$10.85
Q3 FY23$2.27−13%$11.01

Against its peers

Companies in Medical - Diagnostics & Research nearest Waters' size, closest first, today.

CompanyEPS, 12 monthsGrowth
WATWaters$4.01−64% a year
IDXXIDEXX Laboratories$14.22+18% a year
IQVIQVIA$8.06+17% a year
AAgilent Technologies$5.09+19% a year
ILMNIllumina$5.38−32% a year
MTDMettler-Toledo International$44.42+12% a year
DGXQuest Diagnostics$9.41+18% a year
LHLabcorp$12.09+33% a year
MEDPMedpace$17.05+27% a year
RVTYRevvity$2.10−11% a year
DHRDanaher$5.63+20% a year
Peer median$8.73

Where Waters ranks

What the EPS figure tells you

Net income divided by diluted shares. The denominator of PE.

One-off charges and gains swing it. The TTM view smooths a single odd quarter.

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