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Waters (WAT) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Waters has reported Tax Rate over the past 16 years, most recently at 14.75% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Tax Rate at 14.75% for Q4 2025, down 171.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 14.87% (down 63.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 14.87%, down 63.0%.
  • Tax Rate for Q4 2025 was 14.75% at Waters, up from 12.46% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Tax Rate for WAT hit a ceiling of 17.58% in Q4 2022 and a floor of 9.0% in Q4 2023.
  • Median Tax Rate over the past 5 years was 14.76% (2021), compared with a mean of 14.44%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Tax Rate: tumbled -858bps in 2023 and later skyrocketed 745bps in 2024.
  • Waters' Tax Rate stood at 14.3% in 2021, then rose by 23bps to 17.58% in 2022, then crashed by -49bps to 9.0% in 2023, then soared by 83bps to 16.46% in 2024, then decreased by -10bps to 14.75% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Tax Rate were 14.75% (Q4 2025), 12.46% (Q3 2025), and 17.21% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.