Waters Corp
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Waters Sees Growth Normalizing in Late 2024 After Tough Reset Period
Business Strategy and Outlook
Waters helps clients perform scientific research by providing analytical instruments, services, and supplies. The company specializes in liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry products (nearly 90% of sales), which are used primarily by biopharmaceutical firms to analyze a molecule’s structure during the drug discovery, development, and production processes. These tools can also be used in food and environmental quality testing as well as other industrial applications. And Waters helps scientists examine the physical properties of various materials through its thermal analysis tools (low-double digits percentage).
