---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-24-013968"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WTS"
cik: "0000795403"
company_name: "WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-10-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T08:42:44.123986+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Watts Water reports Q3 sales $544M (+8%), adjusted EPS $2.03; CFO Patel to retire March 2025

## Summary
- Sales $543.6M (+8% reported); organic sales down 4% vs Q3 2023.
- Reported EPS $2.06 (+5%); adjusted EPS $2.03 vs $2.04 prior year.
- Reported operating margin 17.1% (down 20 bps); adjusted 17.1% (down 90 bps).
- Raising midpoint of full-year 2024 operating margin outlook.
- CFO Shashank Patel to retire March 15, 2025; search begun for successor.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-24-013968
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WTS
- cik: 0000795403
- company_name: WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-10-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795403/000155837024013968/0001558370-24-013968-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795403/000155837024013968/wts-20241027x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Shashank Patel departed as Chief Financial Officer at WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On October 27, 2024, Shashank Patel, the Registrant’s Chief Financial Officer, provided notice of his intention to retire from the Registrant effective as of March 15, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795403/000155837024013968/0001558370-24-013968-index.htm

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