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Leerink Swann Downgrades Waters Corp. (WAT) to Market Perform

January 3, 2013 8:46 AM EST
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Price: $347.27 --0%

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    7 Buy, 21 Hold, 2 Sell

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    Up: 9 | Down: 7 | New: 39
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Leerink Swann downgraded Waters Corp. (NYSE: WAT) from Outperform to Market Perform with a valuation range of $88-$89.

The firm comments, "We are downgrading WAT's stock from Outperform to Market Perform, a change that reflects our view that upside to numbers in 2013 could be a challenge (we're 1.5% and 1.2% below FactSet consensus on sales and earnings, respectively). We continue to view WAT as a high-quality asset with exposure to attractive long-term trends (e.g., genericization, global regulation, emerging markets), but currently prefer others in the large-cap, macro-correlated tools bucket, such as PKI (OP) and TMO (OP)."

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Shares of Waters Corp. closed at $88.71 yesterday.


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