---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-024758"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WAT"
cik: "0001000697"
company_name: "WATERS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-02-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T07:36:51.510462+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Waters Q4 2023 sales $819M (-4.5%); FY guidance organic growth -0.5% to +1.5%

## Summary
- Q4 GAAP EPS $3.65, non-GAAP $3.62 (at high end of guidance); YoY decline from $3.84.
- Full-year 2023 sales $2,956M (-0.5% as reported); non-GAAP EPS $11.75 vs $12.02 prior year.
- Gross margin expanded 160bps to 59.6%; adjusted operating margin expanded 70bps to 30.9%.
- China Q4 sales declined almost 40%; pharma sales down 6% as reported.
- Q1 2024 guidance: organic sales -11% to -9%; non-GAAP EPS $2.05-$2.15.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-024758
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WAT
- cik: 0001000697
- company_name: WATERS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-02-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000697/000119312524024758/0001193125-24-024758-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000697/000119312524024758/d675116d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  WATERS CORP /DE/ reported financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.
  - Period: the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2023
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On February 6, 2024, Waters Corporation (“Waters” or the “Company”) announced its results of operations for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2023. A copy of the related press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000697/000119312524024758/0001193125-24-024758-index.htm

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