Waters Corp /De/ (WAT) Institutional Ownership

Institutions by Trading Activity

Ownership Statistics

0Shares Outstanding

339,075Shares held by institutions

$99,481,214Value of institutional holdings

98.43%Institutional ownership %

0.41%Shares Changed QoQ

764No. of institutional investors

Shares Owned by Institutions

Shares Purchased/Sold by Institutions

Ownership Summary

Waters Corp /De/ (NYSE:WAT) is held by 784 institutional investors per 13F filings through December 2025.

Collectively, these holders controlled 95.4% of Waters's outstanding shares in December 2025, down from 97.7% in September 2025.
They increased total shares held in Waters by 0.45% from the prior quarter, while the number of investors in WAT increased 4.12% year over year.
Among the 784 funds, 363 bought more Waters shares, 285 sold down, and 136 held their ground.
Institutional investors collectively held 56.88Mn shares in Waters as of December 2025, up by 255.02K shares quarter on quarter, and down 2.59Mn shares year over year.
VANGUARD GROUP INC leads ownership in WAT with 7.47Mn shares as of December 31, 2025, equal to 12.53% of outstanding shares.
The biggest buyers of Waters for the quarter ending December 2025 included NORGES BANK (699.66K), Veritas Asset Management LLP (656.44K), MARSHALL WACE, LLP (547.11K), MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC (516.09K), Goldman Sachs Group Inc (284.7K).
The largest sales of WAT for the quarter ending December 2025 came from BlackRock, Inc. (634.08K), Bank Of America Corp /De/ (501.28K), Fundsmith LLP (397.52K), Invesco Ltd. (305.2K), Mawer Investment Management Ltd. (252.26K).
According to Business Quant data, leading holders of WAT for December 2025 are VANGUARD GROUP INC (7.47Mn), BlackRock, Inc. (5.43Mn), Fundsmith LLP (3.56Mn), State Street Corp (2.68Mn), MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/ (2.62Mn), ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. (2.07Mn), GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC (1.59Mn), Mawer Investment Management Ltd. (1.3Mn), Janus Henderson Group Plc (1.29Mn), Veritas Asset Management LLP (1.24Mn).

785 Institutional Holders

339,075 Total Shares Held

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Owner Name	Date	Change (QoQ)	Change (%)	Value (USD)
BlackRock, Inc.	31 Dec, 2025	-634,082	-10.45%	$0.00
VANGUARD GROUP INC	31 Dec, 2025	-186,955	-2.44%	$0.00
FUNDSMITH INVESTMENT SERVICES LTD.	31 Dec, 2025	-210,080	-15.49%	$0.00
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC	31 Dec, 2025	291,604	58.43%	$0.00
Fundsmith LLP	31 Dec, 2025	-397,520	-10.05%	$0.00
GUARDCAP ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd	31 Dec, 2025	-94,890	-15.17%	$0.00
Barclays Plc	31 Dec, 2025	-212,573	-65.94%	$0.00
State Street Corp	31 Dec, 2025	3,615	0.13%	$0.00
Holocene Advisors, LP	31 Dec, 2025	103,219	33.46%	$0.00
Eos Management, L.P.	31 Dec, 2025	8,027	100.00%	$0.00
MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/	31 Dec, 2025	-64,978	-2.42%	$0.00
UBS Group AG	31 Dec, 2025	151,102	73.76%	$0.00
World Investment Advisors	31 Dec, 2025	6,355	93.83%	$0.00
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P.	31 Dec, 2025	-17,545	-0.84%	$0.00
T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc.	31 Dec, 2025	73,838	40.74%	$0.00
Rockefeller Capital Management L.P.	31 Dec, 2025	4,171	313.37%	$0.00
GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC	31 Dec, 2025	8,590	0.54%	$0.00
Impax Asset Management Group plc	31 Dec, 2025	-31,297	-11.88%	$0.00
Winthrop Partners - WNY, LLC	31 Dec, 2025	2,077	0.00%	$0.00
Mawer Investment Management Ltd.	31 Dec, 2025	-252,258	-16.26%	$0.00

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