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Watts Water Technologies$WTS · filed: grew revenue 8.3% in FY2025 to $2.4BNew shipTrillion Score 566Fall Risk MediumNext year $2.4B–$2.8B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Watts Water Technologies filed
Grew revenue 8.3% in FY2025 to $2.4 billion, operating margin 18.4% against a 8.1% median for miscellaneous fabricated metal products, equity 70.4% of assets, and dividend per share up 13 years running. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Watts Water Technologies’s card. New ship: no warning signs. Trillion Score 566, #4 of 23 in its field; Fall Risk Medium (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $2.4B and $2.8B, an 80% range sealed on 27 Sept 2026 · receipt #b87862 · graded in public by the revenue in Watts Water Technologies’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
Watts Water's Q1 reveals hyperscale plumbing demand running **18 months** ahead of Street models, with backlog implying sustained margin expansion through 2027.
14.1%
in the prior-year quarter
31%
of quarterly revenue versus
18%
six quarters ago
$487 million
at quarter-end
Watts Water Technologies reported Q1 2026 revenue of $565 million, up 22% year-over-year, with operating margin expansion to 16.8% from 14.1% in the prior-year quarter. The North Andover-based manufacturer attributed the beat to accelerated procurement cycles from hyperscale data center developers and their mechanical contractors, a customer class that represented 31% of quarterly revenue versus 18% six quarters ago.
Management disclosed on the earnings call that the company's backlog for large-format pressure regulation assemblies and thermal expansion solutions grew to $487 million at quarter-end, representing roughly 8.6 months of forward coverage at current production rates. CEO Robert Pagano noted that two unnamed cloud infrastructure operators placed orders totaling $76 million in March alone, with delivery schedules extending into Q3 2027. The order pattern suggests these buyers are locking in supply for campuses not yet announced publicly, consistent with permitting activity Huang Goodman has tracked in Northern Virginia and Central Ohio.
The data center tailwind is structural, not cyclical. Watts manufactures the pressure-independent control valves and backflow prevention devices required by mechanical code for facilities drawing more than 5 megawatts of cooling load. As AI training clusters push individual building power density past 50 megawatts, the mechanical infrastructure bill-of-materials per square foot has increased roughly 40% since 2023, according to contractor surveys cited in the call. Watts holds roughly 60% share in the specification-driven commercial segment, and the company's products carry 18-24 month replacement cycles in high-duty applications, creating a recurring revenue stream as the installed base scales.
Pageno raised full-year guidance to $2.35-2.42 billion in revenue, implying 19-23% growth, and lifted operating margin targets to 16.5-17.2% from prior guidance of 15.8-16.4%. The revision reflects both volume leverage and a shift toward higher-margin engineered assemblies, which now represent 43% of the data center mix versus 29% for the legacy commercial building segment. Free cash flow guidance moved to $340-365 million, up from $295-320 million, with management indicating the company will deploy roughly $180 million toward capacity expansion in its Bentonville and Monterrey facilities to support 2027-2028 demand visibility.
Operators should monitor Watts's capacity utilization disclosures in Q2, expected in mid-July. Management indicated the company is running certain production lines at 91% utilization, near the threshold where lead times extend and competitors gain share. Watch for announcements on third-party manufacturing partnerships or acquisition activity in the pressure regulation space, particularly in Europe where Watts underpenetrates relative to the U.S. The company's ability to maintain share as the hyperscale build-out accelerates into 15-20 new campuses per quarter will depend on capital deployment decisions made in the next 90-120 days.
The forward order book is already priced for 2027 revenue that most analysts modeled for 2028.
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Long WTS May-27 calls; overlay with short positions in legacy HVAC distributors facing mix dilution from data center shift.
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