Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (WTS)

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Watts Water Technologies, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Watts Water Technologies, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.4% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 6% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Watts Water Technologies, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 5% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 23 sales (3 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Watts Water Technologies, Inc. earned about 17 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 42 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 30 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

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Watts Water Technologies, Inc.'s standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 17% by size; a net margin of 14% ranks in the top 28%; revenue growth of 7.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 28% (its annual reports).

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Watts Water Technologies, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Pagano, Robert J Jr (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2014-05-27, 12.5 years (top 10% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10.3 years (top 12%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (bottom 36%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Watts Water Technologies, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $406 million against debt of $198 million leaves 7.2% of its assets as net cash, top 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 14.6% of revenue (top 28%); a gross margin of 49.5% (top 17%); research spending of 3% of revenue (top 19%) (its annual report).

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Watts Water Technologies, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.2% a year over the last three filed years against 6.4% over all 10, speeding up (top 28% of its family); the newest year grew 8.3% (top 39%); research spending grew 7.4% a year (top 31%); capital spending grew 17.6% a year (top 19%) (its annual reports). Watts Water Technologies, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Americas at $1.8 billion (76%), Europe at $451 million (19%), Asia Pacific Middle East and Africa at $140 million (6%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Watts Water Technologies, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.5% above the $2.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $341 million against a prior three-year average of $268 million (top 39%); a net margin of 14% against 12.8% before (top 39%) (its annual reports).