Which is more profitable, Agilent Technologies or Waters?

Waters keeps more of every sale as profit.

Which grows faster, Agilent Technologies or Waters?

Waters grew its sales faster in recent years.

Which is cheaper, Agilent Technologies or Waters?

Agilent Technologies costs less for each unit of yearly profit (lower P/E).

Which has less debt, Agilent Technologies or Waters?

Agilent Technologies would need fewer years of earnings to pay off its debt.

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Agilent Technologies vs Waters stock

Side by side in plain words: who keeps more of its sales, grows faster, costs less and owes less.

In one sentence

Agilent Technologies is cheaper for its profits and has less debt. Waters is more profitable and grows faster.

Side by side

	Agilent Technologies	Waters
	$49.0 billion	$90.5 billion
	18.8%	20.3%
	+5.4%	+6.0%
	37.6×	140.8×
	0.9 years	0.9 years
	12.4%	16.5%
	0.6%	–

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How we compare

Four contests with the same rules as each stock page: profit kept from sales (higher wins), yearly sales growth across the last reports, up to five years (higher wins), price per unit of yearly profit (lower P/E wins; a company without profit loses) and debt in years of earnings (lower wins). A winner is only named when both companies have the number.

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