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Profile - Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
34 Maple Street
Milford, MA 01757
Phone: (508) 478-2000
Fax: (508) 872-1990
Email: info@waters.com
Employees (last reported count): 3,200
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Scientific & Technical Instr.
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 ·S&P 400 MidCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 23%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider sell; 150.0K shares
  (0.5% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 87% (113% of float)
(766 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 1.22M shares (+1.08%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Waters Corporation is a holding company that owns Waters Technologies Corporation. The Company operates in the analytical instrument industry, with manufacturing and distribution expertise in three complementary technologies. They consist of high-performance liquid chromatography instruments (HPLC), chromatography columns and other consumables and related service, mass spectrometry instruments that can be integrated and used along with other analytical instruments (especially HPLC), and thermal analysis and rheology instruments. Through Micromass, Waters is engaged in the development, manufacture and distribution of mass spectrometry instruments, which are complementary products that can be integrated and used along with other analytical instruments, especially HPLC. Through TA Instruments, Inc., Waters is also engaged in thermal analysis, a prevalent and complementary technique used in the analysis of polymers.
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Financial Summary
Waters Corporation manufactures, distributes and provides high performance liquid chromatography instruments, chromatography columns and other related services. For the six months ended 6/30/01, net sales rose 8% to $407.8 million. Net income before acct. change rose 14% to $77.7 million. Revenues reflect increased sales to life science customers across the mass spectrometry and HPLC product lines. Earnings also reflect productivity improvements and a $2.6 million interest income.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Douglas Berthiaume, 52
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$1.5M$40M
John Ornell, 43
CFO
--  --  
Arthur Caputo, 49
Sr. VP, Sales and Marketing
598K24M
Brian Mazar, 43
Sr. VP of HR, Director of Investor Relations
--  --  
Thomas Feller, 60
Sr. VP, E-Bus. Initiative
524K34M
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:WATAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 18-July-2001
$22.33 
Recent Price$33.13 
52-Week High
on 29-Sep-2000
$90.938
Beta0.82 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)1.49M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1.17M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-59.1%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-45.1%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$4.33B
Shares Outstanding130.8M
Float100.7M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 28-Aug-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$4.04 
Earnings (ttm)$1.20 
Earnings (mrq)$0.29 
Sales (ttm)$5.99 
Cash (mrq)$1.03 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)8.21 
Price/Earnings (ttm)27.61 
Price/Sales (ttm)5.53 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$825.3M
EBITDA (ttm)$223.9M
Income available to common (ttm)$165.4M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)20.0%
Operating Margin (ttm)26.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)24.13%
Return on Equity (ttm)36.31%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.84 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.00 
Total Cash (mrq)$134.5M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short2.03M
Percent of Float2.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
937.0K
Short Ratio1.68 
Daily Volume1.21M
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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