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AVTR vs WAT

Side-by-side comparison of Avantor Inc. (AVTR) and Waters Corporation (WAT): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both AVTR and WAT operate in Biotechnology: Laboratory Analytical Instruments (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • WAT is the larger of the two at $30.36B, about 5.5x AVTR ($5.48B).
  • Over the past year, AVTR is down 37.7% and WAT is down 11.0% - WAT leads by 26.7 points.
  • Both names hit the wire about 8 times in the past 4 weeks.
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceAVTR-37.72%WAT-11.02%
2025-04-30+0.00%2026-04-30
MetricAVTRWAT
Company
Avantor Inc.
Waters Corporation
Price
$8.09+3.06%
$309.23+5.87%
Market cap
$5.48B
$30.36B
1M return
+3.12%
+3.81%
1Y return
-37.72%
-11.02%
Industry
Biotechnology: Laboratory Analytical Instruments
Biotechnology: Laboratory Analytical Instruments
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2019
1995
News (4w)
8
8
Recent ratings
25
25
AVTR

Avantor Inc.

Avantor, Inc. provides products and services to customers in biopharma, healthcare, education and government, advanced technologies, and applied materials industries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers materials and consumables, such as purity chemicals and reagents, lab products and supplies, formulated silicone materials, customized excipients, customized single-use assemblies, process chromatography resins and columns, analytical sample prep kits, education and microbiology products, and clinical trial kits. It also provides equipment and instrumentation products, including filtration systems, virus inactivation systems, incubators, analytical instruments, evaporators, ultra-low-temperature freezers, biological safety cabinets, and critical environment supplies. In addition, the company offers services and specialty procurements comprising onsite lab and production, clinical, equipment, procurement and sourcing, and biopharmaceutical material scale-up and development services. Avantor, Inc. was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

WAT

Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation, a specialty measurement company, provides analytical workflow solutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe. It operates through two segments, Waters and TA. The company designs, manufactures, sells, and services high and ultra-performance liquid chromatography, as well as mass spectrometry (MS) technology systems and support products, including chromatography columns, other consumable products, and post-warranty service plans. It also designs, manufactures, sells, and services thermal analysis, rheometry, and calorimetry instruments; and develops and supplies software-based products that interface with its instruments, as well as other manufacturers' instruments. Its MS technology instruments are used in drug discovery and development comprising clinical trial testing, the analysis of proteins in disease processes, nutritional safety analysis, and environmental testing. The company's offers thermal analysis, rheometry, and calorimetry instruments for use in predicting the suitability and stability of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, water, polymers, metals, and viscous liquids for various industrial, consumer good, and healthcare products, as well as for life science research. Its products are used by pharmaceutical, biochemical, industrial, nutritional safety, environmental, academic, and governmental customers working in research and development, quality assurance, and other laboratory applications. The company has a collaboration with Genovis AB to develop and market biopharmaceutical characterization workflows based on the its BioAccord LC-MS System, Andrew+ pipetting robot and Genovis SmartEnzymes. Waters Corporation was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts.

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