Waters (WAT) shares tumbled over 12% Monday morning after the analytics instruments maker said it plans to buy Becton Dickinson's (BDX) Biosciences & Diagnostic Solutions business in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction valued at $17.5 billion. Becton Dickinson shares were about 2% lower.
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WAT's first-quarter 2025 results reflect strong growth in the instruments and chemical segments, coupled with strong momentum in the industrial and pharma sectors.
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT ) Q1 2025 Earnings Conference Call May 6, 2025 8:00 AM ET Company Participants Caspar Tudor - Head of Investor Relations Udit Batra - President and Chief Executive Officer Amol Chaubal - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Jack Meehan - Nephron Research LLC Tycho Peterson - Jefferies Puneet Souda - Leerink Partners Catherine Schulte - Robert W. Baird & Co. Sung Ji Nam - Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets Brandon Couillard - Wells Fargo Securities LLC Vijay Kumar - Evercore ISI Matthew Sykes - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Daniel Arias - Stifel, Nicolaus & Company Daniel Brennan - TD Cowen Operator Good morning.
Although the revenue and EPS for Waters (WAT) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended March 2025, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.
Waters (WAT) came out with quarterly earnings of $2.25 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.22 per share. This compares to earnings of $2.21 per share a year ago.
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Get a deeper insight into the potential performance of Waters (WAT) for the quarter ended March 2025 by going beyond Wall Street's top -and-bottom-line estimates and examining the estimates for some of its key metrics.
Waters (WAT) possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.