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Waters (WAT) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Waters has reported Return on Sales over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.24% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.24% for Q4 2025, down 2.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.2% (down 1.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.2%, down 1.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.24% at Waters, up from 0.19% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for WAT hit a ceiling of 0.27% in Q4 2024 and a floor of 0.16% in Q1 2024.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.23% (2022), compared with a mean of 0.22%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: grew 13bps in 2021 and later decreased -5bps in 2024.
  • Waters' Return on Sales stood at 0.26% in 2021, then rose by 2bps to 0.26% in 2022, then dropped by 0bps to 0.26% in 2023, then grew by 0bps to 0.27% in 2024, then dropped by -9bps to 0.24% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.24% (Q4 2025), 0.19% (Q3 2025), and 0.19% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.