Waters Ownership | Who Owns Waters?

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Waters Ownership Summary

Waters is owned by 97.65% institutional investors, 0.16% insiders, and 2.19% retail investors. Vanguard group is the largest institutional shareholder, holding 11.97% 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	97.65%	0.16%	2.19%
Sector	Healthcare Stocks	487.91%	11.08%	-398.99%
Industry	Diagnostics & Research Stocks	57.29%	10.84%	31.88%

Institutional Shareholders

Top Institutional Shareholders by Total Shares

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Value
Vanguard group	7.10M	11.97%	$2.63B
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	6.56M	11.03%	$2.29B
Blackrock	5.65M	9.55%	$1.64B
Fundsmith llp	3.61M	6.06%	$1.26B
Massachusetts financial services co /ma/	2.69M	4.52%	$806.40M
Alliancebernstein	2.65M	4.47%	$984.58M
State street	2.53M	4.27%	$733.58M
Mawer investment management	1.55M	2.61%	$465.01M
Geode capital management	1.45M	2.45%	$537.05M
Fundsmith investment services	1.22M	2.05%	$426.10M

Top Institutional Shareholders by % of Total Assets

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Value
C partners gmbh	154.36K	11.84%	$53.88M
Fundsmith investment services	1.22M	5.77%	$426.10M
Fundsmith llp	3.61M	5.47%	$1.26B
Nuance investments	146.89K	4.48%	$44.04M
Guardcap asset management	625.54K	4.35%	$187.54M
Tikehau investment management	8.59K	3.76%	$2.58M
Ako capital llp	787.35K	3.47%	$274.81M
Hutchinson capital management/ca	48.50K	3.09%	$16.93M
Mawer investment management	1.55M	2.41%	$465.01M
Schaper benz & wise investment counsel inc/wi	105.67K	2.36%	$31.68M

Top Buyers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Mawer investment management	1.55M	2.41%	1.07M
Massachusetts financial services co /ma/	2.69M	0.25%	825.72K
Norges bank	766.66K	0.04%	766.66K
Veritas asset management llp	584.77K	1.87%	584.77K
Millennium management	304.40K	0.06%	300.38K

Top Sellers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Bank of new york mellon	340.97K	0.02%	-1.42M
Generation investment management llp	-	-	-755.33K
Robeco institutional asset management b.v.	29.02K	0.01%	-486.48K
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	6.56M	0.04%	-377.26K
Thrivent financial for lutherans	2.40K	0.00%	-274.65K

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
Madison investment advisors	282.08K	1.18%	282.08K	$104.64M
Qube research	91.60K	0.03%	91.60K	$31.97M
Smith group asset management	59.81K	1.64%	59.81K	$22.19M

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 %
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%
Jun 30, 2024	687	-1.86%	56,921,752	-1.25%	96	1.01%	319	21.29%	220	-19.71%

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
2025 Q3	-	-
2025 Q2	-	-
2025 Q1	-	-
2024 Q4	-	-
2024 Q3	-	-

WAT Ownership FAQ

Who Owns Waters?

Waters shareholders are primarily institutional investors at 97.65%, followed by 0.16% insiders and 2.19% retail investors. The average institutional ownership in Waters's industry, Diagnostics & Research Stocks, is 57.29%, which Waters exceeds.

Who owns the most shares of Waters?

Waters’s largest shareholders are Vanguard group (7.1M shares, 11.97%), Blackrock funding, inc. /de (6.56M shares, 11.03%), and Blackrock (5.65M shares, 9.55%). Together, they hold 32.54% 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?

C partners gmbh is Waters’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested, with 11.84% of its assets in 154.36K Waters shares, valued at 53.88M$.

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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