Why Watts Water (WTS) is a Top Growth Stock for the Long-Term

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Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.

Why This 1 Growth Stock Should Be On Your Watchlist

Growth investors build their portfolios around companies that are financially strong and have a bright future, and the Growth Style Score helps take projected and historical earnings, sales, and cash flow into account to uncover stocks that will see long-term, sustainable growth.

Watts Water (WTS)

Headquartered in North Andover, MA, Watts Water Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells various water safety and flow control products for the water quality, water conservation, water safety, and water flow control markets. The company reports its business under three geographic segments: Americas (68.9% of total revenues in second-quarter 2023), Europe (25.5%) and APMEA consisting of Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa (5.6%).

WTS boasts a Growth Style Score of B and VGM Score of B, and holds a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) rating. Its bottom-line is projected to rise 8.3% year-over-year for 2023, while Wall Street anticipates its top line to improve by 2.6%.

Five analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.45 to $7.72 per share for 2023. WTS boasts an average earnings surprise of 12.5%.

On a historic basis, Watts Water has generated cash flow growth of 12.4%, and is expected to report cash flow expansion of 20.4% this year.

Investors should take the time to consider WTS for their portfolios due to its solid Zacks Rank rating, notable growth metrics, and impressive Growth and VGM Style Scores.

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