Compensation award — excluded from discretionary-purchase analysis.
Written from the filing's own figures. OQRO describes what was reported and never tells you what to buy or sell
View the official recordSEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial OwnershipAll the details
Dates, kept separate
Transaction date
Feb 4, 2026
Reporting period
Not applicable
Filed with the SEC
Feb 7, 2026
OfficerGrant / award
Context
Classification
grant award
Code A — grant or award
Planned / mechanical clue
Footnote references vesting of compensation awards
Only flagged when a footnote says so; never inferred
Source receipt
Record ID
0001000697-26-000046
Filed / recorded
Feb 7, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC
Added to OQRO
Oct 2, 2026, 12:29 PM UTC
Parser
form4-xml-v1
Data quality
Verified: identifiers matched exactly
Issuer
WATERS CORP /DE/
Issuer CIK
1000697
Ticker
WAT
Reporting person
Jianqing Bennett
Relationship
Officer
Officer title
SVP TA Instruments Division
Security
Common Stock
Table
Non-derivative (Table I)
Transaction date
Feb 4, 2026
Transaction code
A
Shares / units
1,385
Price per share
$0.00
Acquired / disposed
Acquired (A)
Shares owned after
6,301
Ownership form
Direct
Amendment
No
Footnotes from the filing
Represents performance-based restricted stock units ("PSUs") originally granted on February 8, 2023, subject to pre-determined service and performance-based vesting requirements. The level of achievement of the performance-based vesting requirement for the PSUs was certified by the Issuer's Compensation Committee on February 4, 2026, and the PSUs will vest in full upon satisfaction of the service-based vesting requirement on March 1, 2026. The PSUs are convertible into shares of the Issuer's Common Stock on a one-to-one basis upon vesting and settlement.
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