Waters Ownership | Who Owns Waters?

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Waters Ownership Summary

Waters is owned by 95.67% institutional investors, 0.16% insiders, and 4.16% retail investors. Vanguard group is the largest institutional shareholder, holding 12.55% of WAT shares. Fundsmith Equity I Acc is the top mutual fund, with 5.66% of its assets in Waters shares.

WAT Ownership Benchmark

Type	Name	% Inst	% Insiders	% Retail
Stock	Waters	95.67%	0.16%	4.16%
Sector	Healthcare Stocks	42.64%	10.86%	46.50%
Industry	Diagnostics & Research Stocks	46.31%	10.49%	43.20%

Institutional Shareholders

Top Institutional Shareholders by Total Shares

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Value
Vanguard group	7.47M	12.55%	$2.84B
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	6.07M	10.19%	$1.82B
Blackrock	5.65M	9.55%	$1.64B
Fundsmith llp	3.96M	6.65%	$1.19B
State street	2.68M	4.50%	$803.35M
Massachusetts financial services co /ma/	2.62M	4.41%	$996.95M
Alliancebernstein	2.08M	3.50%	$624.94M
Geode capital management	1.58M	2.66%	$473.26M
Mawer investment management	1.55M	2.61%	$465.01M
Invesco	1.47M	2.47%	$441.45M

Top Institutional Shareholders by % of Total Assets

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Value
Fundsmith investment services	1.36M	6.34%	$406.63M
Fundsmith llp	3.96M	5.99%	$1.19B
Guardcap asset management	530.65K	5.39%	$201.75M
Tikehau investment management	8.59K	3.76%	$2.58M
Ako capital llp	806.95K	3.44%	$241.93M
Schaper benz & wise investment counsel inc/wi	104.05K	2.86%	$39.52M
Freemont management	41.60K	2.76%	$15.80M
C partners gmbh	34.56K	2.72%	$10.36M
Figure 8 investment strategies	7.75K	2.62%	$2.94M
Hutchinson capital management/ca	48.16K	2.50%	$14.44M

Top Buyers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Mawer investment management	1.55M	2.41%	1.07M
Norges bank	766.66K	0.04%	766.66K
Veritas asset management llp	584.77K	1.87%	584.77K
Invesco	1.47M	0.07%	359.60K
Fundsmith llp	3.96M	5.99%	347.09K

Top Sellers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Alliancebernstein	2.08M	0.20%	-1.94M
Bank of new york mellon	340.97K	0.02%	-1.42M
Generation investment management llp	-	-	-755.33K
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	6.07M	0.03%	-497.16K
Jupiter asset management	-	-	-287.32K

New Positions

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change	Value
Norges bank	766.66K	0.04%	766.66K	$284.41M
Veritas asset management llp	584.77K	1.87%	584.77K	$175.32M
Holocene advisors, lp	308.49K	0.21%	308.49K	$92.49M
Madison investment advisors	282.08K	1.18%	282.08K	$104.64M
T. rowe price investment management	181.26K	0.03%	181.26K	$54.34M

Sold Out

Holder	Change
Sugar maple asset management	-1.00
Concord wealth partners	-1.00
Sittner & nelson	-1.00
Bok financial private wealth	-1.00
Quaker wealth management	-1.00

Institutional Ownership Trends

Date	Holdings	Change %	Shares	Change %	Ownership	Change %	Increased Position	Change %	Decreased Position	Change %
Sep 30, 2025	741	-2.63%	56,940,191	7.30%	95	1.20%	319	-7.54%	281	1.08%
Jun 30, 2025	765	0.39%	58,118,733	2.49%	97	1.07%	350	-2.78%	277	5.32%
Mar 31, 2025	748	-1.71%	56,603,834	-0.81%	95	1.03%	351	-9.77%	261	12.99%
Dec 31, 2024	680	-3.27%	51,958,707	-6.72%	87	0.99%	350	11.11%	206	-13.45%
Sep 30, 2024	697	-0.29%	55,642,925	-2.29%	93	1.02%	313	-2.79%	234	5.41%

Top Mutual Funds Shareholders

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Change
Fundsmith Equity I Acc	3.37M	5.66%	-
Vanguard US Total Market Shares ETF	1.88M	3.15%	1.36K
Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Inv	1.87M	3.15%	-43.02K
Vanguard Institutional 500 Index Trust	1.69M	2.84%	10.60K
Vanguard 500 Index Investor	1.47M	2.48%	-215.93K
Vanguard Mid Cap Index Institutional	1.33M	2.23%	14.31K
AllianceBernstein US L/C Growth Eqty MF	1.28M	2.15%	-
Fidelity 500 Index	754.34K	1.27%	323.00
Vanguard Growth Index Investor	745.30K	1.25%	4.55K
SPDR® S&P 500 ETF	739.07K	1.24%	-10.85K

Recent Insider Transactions

Date	Name	Role	Activity	Value
May 28, 2024	FEARON RICHARD H	-	Buy	$332.90K
May 15, 2024	KUEBLER CHRISTOPHER A	-	Sell	$1.45M
Mar 13, 2024	BADDOUR LINDA	-	Sell	$177.77K
Aug 04, 2023	KUEBLER CHRISTOPHER A	-	Sell	$1.17M
Feb 28, 2023	VERGNANO MARK P	-	Buy	$997.93K

Insider Transactions Trends

Date	Buy	Sell
2026 Q1	-	-
2025 Q4	-	-
2025 Q3	-	-
2025 Q2	-	-
2025 Q1	-	-

WAT Ownership FAQ

Who Owns Waters?

Waters shareholders are primarily institutional investors at 95.67%, followed by 0.16% insiders and 4.17% retail investors. The average institutional ownership in Waters's industry, Diagnostics & Research Stocks, is 46.31%, which Waters exceeds.

Who owns the most shares of Waters?

Waters’s largest shareholders are Vanguard group (7.47M shares, 12.55%), Blackrock funding, inc. /de (6.07M shares, 10.19%), and Blackrock (5.65M shares, 9.55%). Together, they hold 32.29% of Waters’s total shares outstanding.

Does Blackrock own Waters?

Yes, BlackRock owns 9.55% of Waters, totaling 5.65M shares as of Jun 2024. This represents 0.04% of BlackRock's total assets, with a market value of 1.64B$. In the last quarter, BlackRock increased its holdings by 74.38K shares, a 1.33% change.

Who is Waters’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested?

Fundsmith investment services is Waters’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested, with 6.34% of its assets in 1.36M Waters shares, valued at 406.63M$.

Who is the top mutual fund holder of Waters shares?

Fundsmith Equity I Acc is the top mutual fund holder of Waters shares, with 5.66% of its total shares outstanding invested in 3.37M Waters shares.

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