Top Water Stocks To Research - November 8th

Key Points

• Coca-Cola, Ecolab, and American Water Works were highlighted as water-related stocks with the highest recent dollar trading volumes, though their businesses range from beverages to water treatment and utility services.
• All three shares fell Friday: Coca-Cola slipped to $95.69, Ecolab to $300.82, and American Water Works to $150.42.
• American Water Works supplies water and wastewater services to about 3.5 million customers across 14 states; Ecolab provides water-treatment and hygiene solutions, while Coca-Cola sells beverages worldwide.

Coca-Cola, Ecolab, and American Water Works are the three Water stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Water stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in supplying, treating, or managing water, or in making related equipment and technology. For investors, they offer exposure to the water sector, though returns can be affected by regulation, infrastructure costs, and changing demand. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Water stocks within the last several days.

Coca-Cola (KO)

The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures, markets, and sells various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides sparkling soft drinks, sparkling flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and other beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as restaurants and convenience stores.

Shares of KO traded down $0.04 on Friday, hitting $95.69. The company's stock had a trading volume of 18,418,474 shares, compared to its average volume of 18,204,534. The company has a quick ratio of 1.19, a current ratio of 1.38 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.93. The firm's fifty day moving average price is $89.96 and its 200-day moving average price is $82.69. Coca-Cola has a fifty-two week low of $67.27 and a fifty-two week high of $97.39. The firm has a market capitalization of $411.63 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.14, a P/E/G ratio of 3.73 and a beta of 0.28.

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Ecolab (ECL)

Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Global Industrial; Global Institutional & Specialty; and Global Healthcare & Life Sciences. The Global Industrial segment offers water treatment and process applications, and cleaning and sanitizing solutions to manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, metals and mining, power generation, pulp and paper, commercial laundry, petroleum, refining, and petrochemical industries.

ECL stock traded down $5.01 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $300.82. 2,219,181 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,643,684. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.14, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a current ratio of 1.11. The firm has a market cap of $84.37 billion, a P/E ratio of 40.93, a P/E/G ratio of 2.93 and a beta of 0.85. The firm's 50 day simple moving average is $284.00 and its 200 day simple moving average is $276.93. Ecolab has a 1-year low of $243.15 and a 1-year high of $318.93.

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American Water Works (AWK)

American Water Works Company, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides water and wastewater services in the United States. It offers water and wastewater services to approximately 1,700 communities in 14 states serving approximately 3.5 million active customers. The company serves residential customers; commercial customers, including food and beverage providers, commercial property developers and proprietors, and energy suppliers; fire service and private fire customers; industrial customers, such as large-scale manufacturers, mining, and production operations; public authorities comprising government buildings and other public sector facilities, such as schools and universities; and other utilities and community water and wastewater systems.

AWK traded down $2.00 during trading on Friday, reaching $150.42. The company had a trading volume of 3,270,359 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,035,520. The company has a market cap of $29.95 billion, a P/E ratio of 26.07, a PEG ratio of 3.06 and a beta of 0.56. American Water Works has a 12 month low of $120.57 and a 12 month high of $153.69. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.17, a current ratio of 0.39 and a quick ratio of 0.36. The business's fifty day moving average price is $136.74 and its 200 day moving average price is $132.87.

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