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Acquisitions | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2024
Business Combinations [Abstract] |
Acquisitions | 6 Acquisitions On May 16, 2023, the Company acquired all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Wyatt for $1.3 billion, net of cash acquired. Wyatt is a pioneer in innovative light scattering and field-flow fractionation instruments, software, accessories and services. The acquisition has expanded Waters’ portfolio and increased our exposure to large molecule applications. The Company allocated the purchase price of the acquisition to identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date. The Company allocated $ 418 million of the purchase price to intangible assets comprised of developed technology, trade name and customer relationships. The developed technology and customer relationships will be amortized over ten years and the trade name will be amortized over five years. The intangible assets were valued with input from valuation specialists. The Company used variations of the income approach, which uses Level 3 inputs, in determining the fair value of intangible assets acquired in the Wyatt acquisition. Specifically, the customer relationships were valued using the multi-period excess earnings method under the income approach. The Company utilized the relief from royalty method to determine the fair value of the tradename and the developed technology. The following table presents the allocation of the purchase price to the estimated fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed on the closing date of May 16, 2023 (in thousands):
Purchase Price |  |  |  |
Cash paid |  | $ | 1,307,978 |
Less: cash acquired |  |  | (25,624 | )
Net cash consideration |  |  | 1,282,354 |
Identifiable Net Assets (Liabilities) Acquired |  |  |  |
Accounts receivable |  |  | 20,099 |
Inventory |  |  | 14,706 |
Deferred tax assets |  |  | 11,335 |
Prepaid and other assets |  |  | 1,096 |
Property, plant and equipment |  |  | 9,056 |
Operating lease assets |  |  | 5,204 |
Intangible assets |  |  | 418,100 |
Accounts payable and accrued expenses |  |  | (31,664 | )
Operating lease liabilities |  |  | (5,204 | )
Tax liabilities |  |  | (3,917 | )
Deferred revenue |  |  | (15,219 | )
Other liabilities |  |  | (5,728 | )
Total identifiable net assets acquired |  |  | 417,864 |
Goodwill |  |  | 864,490 |
Cash consideration paid |  | $ | 1,282,354 |
The details of the purchase price allocated to the intangible assets acquired and the estimated useful lives are as follows (dollars in thousands):
|  | Amount |  |  | Weighted-Average Life |
Developed technology |  | $ | 80,000 |  |  |  | 10 years |
Customer relationships |  |  | 330,600 |  |  |  | 10 years |
Trade name |  |  | 7,500 |  |  |  | 5 years |
Total |  |  | $418,100 |  |  |  |  |
The Company allocated $864 million of the purchase price to goodwill which is primarily deductible for tax purposes and has been allocated to the Waters Division operating segment. The goodwill arising from the acquisition consists largely of the value of intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition such as workforce in place and cash flows from the integration of acquired technology, distribution channels and products with the Company’s products, which are higher than if the acquired companies’ technology, customer access or products were utilized on a stand-alone basis. The Company’s consolidated results include net sales of $111 million during fiscal 2024 and $73 million during the period in fiscal 2023 following the Wyatt acquisition that closed on May 16, 2023. For each of those periods, Wyatt operated at an immaterial net loss after purchased intangibles amortization, the retention expenses and interest expense. The Company also incurred transaction related costs of $ 13 million during the twelve months ended December 31, 2023, in connection with the Company’s acquisition of Wyatt, which are recorded in selling and administrative expenses in the consolidated statement of operations. Unaudited Pro Forma Financial Information The following unaudited pro forma information is presented for illustrative purposes only. It is not necessarily indicative of the actual results of operations that actually would have been realized had the entities been a single company as of January 1, 2022 or the future operating results of the combined entity. The unaudited pro forma information does not give effect to the potential impact of current financial conditions, regulatory matters or any anticipated synergies that may be associated with the acquisition. The unaudited pro forma information also does not include any integration costs that the Company may incur related to the acquisition as part of combining the operations of the companies. The following unaudited pro forma information shows the results of the Company’s operations for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, as if the acquisition had occurred on January 1, 2022 (in thousands):
|  | December 31, 2023 |  |  | December 31, 2022 |
Revenue |  | $ | 2,995,001 |  |  | $ | 3,086,281 |
Net income |  |  | 658,431 |  |  |  | 651,869 |
To reflect the acquisition of Wyatt as if it had occurred on January 1, 2022, the unaudited pro forma information includes adjustments to reflect, among other things, the incremental intangible asset amortization to be incurred based on the values of each identifiable intangible asset of Wyatt and the interest expense from debt financings obtained to partially fund the cash consideration transferred. Pro forma adjustments were tax effected at the Company’s historical statutory rates in effect for the respective periods. Pro forma net income for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023, was adjusted to exclude certain non-recurring expenses related to transaction costs incurred and the fair value adjustment of inventory. These non-recurring expenses were reclassified to the prior period and included in the pro forma net income for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023 and 2022. In conjunction with the Wyatt acquisition, the Company entered into retention agreements with certain employees, in which the Company agreed to pay a total of $40 million, in two equal installments upon the first and second anniversary of the acquisition date. As these employees are earning their individual cash award by providing service over the two-year period that benefit s the Company, the $40 million will be recognized within total costs and operating expenses in the consolidated statements of operations over the two-year service period. The Company has recorded $18 million and $19 million of expense in the consolidated statement of operations for the twelve months ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. On January 31, 2022, the Company completed an asset acquisition in which the charge detection mass spectrometry technology (“CDMS technology”) assets of Megadalton Solutions, Inc. (“Megadalton”) were acquired for approximately $10 million in total purchase price, of which $5 million was paid at closing and the remaining $4 million will be paid in the future at various dates through 2029. This CDMS technology makes it possible to analyze extremely large proteins and protein complexes used in cell and gene therapies that would otherwise be difficult to analyze with conventional mass spectrometry. Once this technology is further developed, it will extend the capabilities of our mass spectrometry portfolio for a broader set of applications, and as such, the cost of this technology asset has been accounted for as Acquired In-Process Research and Development and expensed in costs and operating expenses in the statement of operations.

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