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Alex Morozov
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Waters' 2Q Mixed; Weakness in U.S. Offset by Strong Performance in Asia

Waters' second quarter was a mixed bag, but overall in line with our expectations. We're maintaining our fair value estimate and think the shares are overvalued at current levels. Our wide moat rating is unchanged. 
As we've communicated previously, demand from the pharmaceutical end market had been uncharacteristically strong recently for the entire life science industry. This quarter we are seeing strong past performance from this channel finally catch up with Waters. The investor community ha...
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Waters Corporation

Waters is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a specialty measurement company. The company primarily designs, manufactures, sells and services high performance liquid chromatography, ultra performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry technology systems and support products, including chromatography columns, other consumable products and post-warranty service plans. In addition, the company designs, manufactures, sells and services thermal analysis, rheometry and calorimetry instruments through its TA? product line. The company is also a developer and supplier of software-based products that interface with its instruments, as well as other manufacturers' instruments.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Alex Morozov

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