Waters Ownership | Who Owns Waters?

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Waters Ownership Summary

Waters is owned by 119.58% institutional investors, 0.10% insiders. Vanguard group is the largest institutional shareholder, holding 12.55% of WAT shares. Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest is the top mutual fund, with 3.18% of its assets in Waters shares.

WAT Ownership Benchmark

Type	Name	% Inst	% Insiders	% Retail
Stock	Waters	119.58%	0.10%	-19.69%
Sector	Healthcare Stocks	50.51%	12.37%	37.12%
Industry	Diagnostics & Research Stocks	78.38%	9.48%	12.14%

Institutional Shareholders

Top Institutional Shareholders by Total Shares

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Value
Vanguard group	7.47M	12.55%	$2.84B
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	8.48M	10.33%	$3.18B
Blackrock	5.65M	9.55%	$1.64B
Vanguard capital management	6.42M	7.81%	$2.41B
Massachusetts financial services co /ma/	4.63M	5.63%	$2.53B
State street	4.38M	5.33%	$1.64B
T. rowe price investment management	3.82M	4.65%	$1.43B
Invesco	3.49M	4.25%	$1.31B
Alliancebernstein	2.69M	3.28%	$802.45M
Geode capital management	2.64M	3.21%	$984.75M

Top Institutional Shareholders by % of Total Assets

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Value
Fundsmith investment services	837.76K	6.95%	$314.20M
Fundsmith llp	2.27M	6.25%	$852.70M
Veritas asset management llp	851.62K	5.75%	$319.39M
Tikehau investment management	8.59K	3.76%	$2.58M
Rivermont capital management lp	65.47K	3.48%	$24.55M
Sivik global healthcare	15.00K	3.39%	$4.47M
Beck mack & oliver	434.15K	3.17%	$162.82M
Mawer investment management	1.22M	3.10%	$456.40M
Hutchinson capital management/ca	46.38K	2.98%	$17.39M
Arvin capital management lp	55.98K	2.74%	$20.99M

Top Buyers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Invesco	3.49M	0.10%	1.33M
Price t rowe associates inc /md/	2.18M	0.08%	1.05M
Schroder investment management group	1.26M	0.34%	948.02K
Sixth street partners management company	816.51K	0.04%	816.51K
Millennium management	894.66K	0.12%	709.49K

Top Sellers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Fundsmith llp	2.27M	6.25%	-938.44K
T. rowe price investment management	3.82M	0.94%	-846.10K
Generation investment management llp	-	-	-755.33K
Ako capital llp	203.36K	1.78%	-613.57K
Veritas asset management llp	851.62K	5.75%	-349.19K

New Positions

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change	Value
Sixth street partners management company	816.51K	0.04%	816.51K	$306.22M
Capital research global investors	358.20K	0.02%	358.20K	$134.34M
Madison investment advisors	282.08K	1.18%	282.08K	$104.64M
Xn lp	193.15K	1.91%	193.15K	$72.44M
Norges bank	188.33K	0.01%	188.33K	$70.63M

Sold Out

Holder	Change
Lloyd advisory services, llc.	-1.00
Breakwater investment management	-1.00
Kingdom financial group llc.	-1.00
Sittner & nelson	-1.00
Sugar maple asset management	-1.00

Institutional Ownership Trends

Date	Holdings	Change %	Shares	Change %	Ownership	Change %	Increased Position	Change %	Decreased Position	Change %
Jun 30, 2026	1,179	-0.59%	98,224,285	3.54%	119	0.47%	501	-51.73%	474	338.89%
Mar 31, 2026	732	-10.18%	26,555,366	-53.95%	44	0.48%	650	76.15%	58	-80.14%
Dec 31, 2025	596	-22.90%	37,351,398	-34.79%	62	0.68%	256	-22.89%	215	-27.12%
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%

Top Mutual Funds Shareholders

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Change
Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest	3.13M	3.18%	9.03K
Vanguard Morn Total Stk Mkt Idx Investor	3.12M	3.17%	-6.25K
Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Inv	3.12M	3.17%	-6.25K
Vanguard US Total Market Shares ETF	1.88M	3.15%	1.36K
Vanguard Institutional 500 Index Trust	1.69M	2.84%	10.60K
Vanguard 500 Index Investor	2.58M	2.63%	26.88K
Vanguard Mid Cap Index Institutional	2.13M	2.17%	-543.00
Vanguard Morn Mid Cap Index Instl	2.13M	2.17%	-543.00
Vanguard MStar Mid Cap Index Instl	2.12M	2.16%	-2.92K
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation	2.10M	2.14%	-698.84K

Recent Insider Transactions

Date	Name	Role	Activity	Value
Aug 06, 2026	KUEBLER CHRISTOPHER A	-	Sell	$1.44M
Mar 16, 2026	Jiang Wei	-	Buy	$144.73K
Mar 06, 2026	FEARON RICHARD H	-	Buy	$306.34K
May 28, 2024	FEARON RICHARD H	-	Buy	$332.90K
May 15, 2024	KUEBLER CHRISTOPHER A	-	Sell	$1.45M

Insider Transactions Trends

Date	Buy	Sell
2026 Q3	-	1
2026 Q2	-	-
2026 Q1	2	-
2025 Q4	-	-
2025 Q3	-	-

WAT Ownership FAQ

Who Owns Waters?

Waters shareholders are primarily institutional investors at 119.58%, followed by 0.10% insiders and -19.68% retail investors. The average institutional ownership in Waters's industry, Diagnostics & Research Stocks, is 78.38%, 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 (8.48M shares, 10.33%), and Blackrock (5.65M shares, 9.55%). Together, they hold 32.42% 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 6.95% of its assets in 837.76K Waters shares, valued at 314.2M$.

Who is the top mutual fund holder of Waters shares?

Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest is the top mutual fund holder of Waters shares, with 3.18% of its total shares outstanding invested in 3.13M Waters shares.

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