---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-024730"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WAT"
cik: "0001000697"
company_name: "WATERS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-02-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T22:35:43.339971+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Waters Q4 sales $873M beat guidance; non-GAAP EPS $4.10 up 13% YoY; FY2025 EPS guide $12.70-$13.00

## Summary
- Q4 sales $873M, +6% reported / +8% constant currency; exceeded high-end of guidance range.
- Non-GAAP EPS $4.10 (+13% YoY); GAAP EPS $3.88; FX headwind ~9% in Q4.
- Full-year sales $2,958M (flat); non-GAAP EPS $11.86 (+1%); operating cash flow $762M; free cash flow $744M (25% of sales).
- FY2025 guidance: constant currency sales growth +4.5%–7.0%; non-GAAP EPS $12.70–$13.00; Q1 non-GAAP EPS $2.17–$2.25.
- Pharma sales +10% constant currency; instruments +8%, recurring +9% constant currency in Q4.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-024730
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WAT
- cik: 0001000697
- company_name: WATERS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-02-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- 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/1000697/000119312525024730/0001193125-25-024730-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000697/000119312525024730/d904971d8k.htm

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