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Waters (WAT) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Waters has reported EBIT Margin over the past 16 years, most recently at 29.01% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put EBIT Margin at 29.01% for Q4 2025, down 447.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 25.36% (down 258.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 25.36%, down 258.0%.
  • EBIT Margin for Q4 2025 was 29.01% at Waters, up from 24.02% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, EBIT Margin for WAT hit a ceiling of 33.49% in Q4 2024 and a floor of 21.02% in Q1 2024.
  • Median EBIT Margin over the past 5 years was 28.05% (2022), compared with a mean of 27.7%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBIT Margin: skyrocketed 1346bps in 2021 and later plummeted -450bps in 2025.
  • Waters' EBIT Margin stood at 31.35% in 2021, then rose by 6bps to 33.35% in 2022, then dropped by -3bps to 32.24% in 2023, then grew by 4bps to 33.49% in 2024, then dropped by -13bps to 29.01% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for EBIT Margin were 29.01% (Q4 2025), 24.02% (Q3 2025), and 24.4% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.