Home Depot, Progressive, CSX, PepsiCo, NuScale Power, CRH, and Roper Technologies are the seven Water stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Water stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose core businesses involve supplying, treating or managing water resources and infrastructure. Investors often view them as a defensive asset class—demand for clean, reliable water is inelastic and driven by population growth, urbanization and tightening regulations. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Water stocks within the last several days.
Home Depot (HD)
The Home Depot, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States and internationally. It sells various building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and décor products, as well as facilities maintenance, repair, and operations products. The company also offers installation services for flooring, water heaters, bath, garage doors, cabinets, cabinet makeovers, countertops, sheds, furnaces and central air systems, and windows.
HD traded up $10.11 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $406.11. The stock had a trading volume of 3,339,858 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,500,548. The stock has a market cap of $404.05 billion, a PE ratio of 27.54, a PEG ratio of 3.68 and a beta of 1.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.95, a quick ratio of 0.28 and a current ratio of 1.09. Home Depot has a one year low of $326.31 and a one year high of $439.37. The business has a 50-day moving average of $368.49 and a 200-day moving average of $371.95.
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Progressive (PGR)
The Progressive Corporation, an insurance holding company, provides personal and commercial auto, personal residential and commercial property, business related general liability, and other specialty property-casualty insurance products and related services in the United States. It operates in three segments: Personal Lines, Commercial Lines, and Property.
NYSE:PGR traded up $4.92 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $247.96. The stock had a trading volume of 2,505,261 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,243,490. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $255.02 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $266.33. The stock has a market capitalization of $145.36 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.98, a P/E/G ratio of 1.44 and a beta of 0.33. Progressive has a one year low of $226.52 and a one year high of $292.99. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a quick ratio of 0.31 and a current ratio of 0.31.
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CSX (CSX)
CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services. The company offers rail services; and transportation of intermodal containers and trailers, as well as other transportation services, such as rail-to-truck transfers and bulk commodity operations. It also transports chemicals, agricultural and food products, minerals, automotive, forest products, fertilizers, and metals and equipment; and coal, coke, and iron ore to electricity-generating power plants, steel manufacturers, and industrial plants, as well as exports coal to deep-water port facilities.
NASDAQ:CSX traded up $0.09 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $35.91. The stock had a trading volume of 15,586,295 shares, compared to its average volume of 15,996,684. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50, a quick ratio of 0.63 and a current ratio of 0.77. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $33.72 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $31.49. The stock has a market capitalization of $66.94 billion, a P/E ratio of 22.15, a P/E/G ratio of 2.63 and a beta of 1.25. CSX has a one year low of $26.22 and a one year high of $37.10.
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PepsiCo (PEP)
PepsiCo, Inc. engages in the manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of various beverages and convenient foods worldwide. The company operates through seven segments: Frito-Lay North America; Quaker Foods North America; PepsiCo Beverages North America; Latin America; Europe; Africa, Middle East and South Asia; and Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand and China Region.
PepsiCo stock traded up $2.28 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $149.15. The company had a trading volume of 3,442,136 shares, compared to its average volume of 8,475,898. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.12, a current ratio of 0.78 and a quick ratio of 0.60. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $136.29 and a 200 day moving average price of $140.61. The firm has a market cap of $204.20 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.17, a P/E/G ratio of 3.86 and a beta of 0.45. PepsiCo has a 12-month low of $127.60 and a 12-month high of $179.73.
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NuScale Power (SMR)
NuScale Power Corporation engages in the development and sale of modular light water reactor nuclear power plants to supply energy for electrical generation, district heating, desalination, hydrogen production, and other process heat applications. It offers NuScale Power Module (NPM), a water reactor that can generate 77 megawatts of electricity (MWe); and VOYGR power plant designs for three facility sizes that are capable of housing from one to four and six or twelve NPMs.
Shares of SMR traded down $0.70 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $37.47. 10,115,346 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 11,611,736. NuScale Power has a 1 year low of $6.88 and a 1 year high of $53.50. The firm has a market capitalization of $10.66 billion, a P/E ratio of -31.55 and a beta of 2.06. The business's 50-day moving average price is $41.06 and its 200-day moving average price is $27.13.
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CRH (CRH)
CRH plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides building materials solutions in Ireland and internationally. It operates through four segments: Americas Materials Solutions, Americas Building Solutions, Europe Materials Solutions, and Europe Building Solutions. The company provides solutions for the construction and maintenance of public infrastructure and commercial and residential buildings; and produces and sells aggregates, cement, readymixed concrete, and asphalt, as well as provides paving and construction services.
Shares of CRH traded up $1.29 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $113.32. 3,316,347 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 5,636,277. The firm has a market capitalization of $76.56 billion, a P/E ratio of 23.69, a PEG ratio of 1.38 and a beta of 1.26. The business's 50-day moving average price is $94.92 and its 200-day moving average price is $95.07. CRH has a 1 year low of $76.75 and a 1 year high of $113.67.
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Roper Technologies (ROP)
Roper Technologies, Inc. designs and develops software, and technology enabled products and solutions. It operates through three segments: Application Software, Network Software, and Technology Enabled Products. The Application Software segment offers management, campus solutions, diagnostic and laboratory information management, enterprise software and information solutions, transportation management, financial and compliance management, and cloud-based financial analytics and performance management software; cloud-based software to the property and casualty insurance industry; and software, services, and technologies for foodservice operations.
ROP stock traded up $1.20 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $520.70. The stock had a trading volume of 717,444 shares, compared to its average volume of 614,633. The firm has a market cap of $56.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 36.32, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.77 and a beta of 0.99. The business has a 50-day moving average of $557.35 and a two-hundred day moving average of $565.10. Roper Technologies has a 52-week low of $499.47 and a 52-week high of $595.17. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35, a current ratio of 0.40 and a quick ratio of 0.37.
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