Waters Corporation Reports Earnings Results for the Fourth Quarter Ended December 31, 2023

Waters Corporation specializes in the conception, the manufacturing and the marketing of analytical instruments. Net sales break down by activity as follows: - sale of instruments and analytical systems (63.6%): chromatographic analysis instruments (59.5% of net sales; instruments high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry), chemistry consumables (28.9%; including columns chemical separation) and thermal analysis, rheometry and calorimetry instruments (11.6%) ; - services (36.7%): support services, training, etc. Net sales are distributed by market between pharmaceutical (58.6%), industrial (29.9%), academic institutions and governmental agencies (11.4%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (28.7%), Americas (5.1%), China (17.1%), Japan (7.6%), Asia (13.3%) and Europe (28.2%).