Coca-Cola, Xylem, Ecolab, IDEXX Laboratories, and NuScale Power are the five Water stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Water stocks are shares in publicly traded companies involved in supplying, treating, distributing, or managing water, including utilities and water-technology firms. For investors, they offer exposure to the water sector—not direct ownership of water—and their performance depends on factors such as regulation, infrastructure spending, and 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 NYSE KO traded up $0.81 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $96.84. 7,860,227 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 17,008,928. Coca-Cola has a 1 year low of $67.27 and a 1 year high of $97.39. The business has a 50 day moving average of $90.09 and a two-hundred day moving average of $82.81. The stock has a market capitalization of $416.60 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.49, a PEG ratio of 3.74 and a beta of 0.28. The company has a quick ratio of 1.19, a current ratio of 1.38 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.93.
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Xylem (XYL)
Xylem Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and servicing of engineered products and solutions worldwide. It operates through four segments: Water Infrastructure, Applied Water, Measurement & Control Solutions, and Integrated Solutions and Services. The Water Infrastructure segment offers products, including water, storm water, and wastewater pumps; controls and systems; filtration, disinfection, and biological treatment equipment; and mobile dewatering equipment and rental services under the ADI, Flygt, Godwin, Sanitaire, Magneto, Neptune Benson, Ionpure, Leopold, Wedeco, and Xylem Vue brands.
Xylem stock traded down $2.91 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $96.35. The company's stock had a trading volume of 1,980,999 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,196,530. Xylem has a 52-week low of $87.40 and a 52-week high of $151.99. The company has a market cap of $22.10 billion, a PE ratio of 21.37, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.69 and a beta of 1.01. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23, a current ratio of 1.39 and a quick ratio of 1.02. The firm's 50 day moving average is $103.31 and its 200 day moving average is $116.27.
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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.
Shares of ECL traded up $0.15 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $306.89. The company's stock had a trading volume of 612,064 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,465,511. The firm has a market cap of $86.07 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 41.85, a P/E/G ratio of 3.07 and a beta of 0.85. Ecolab has a 1-year low of $243.15 and a 1-year high of $318.93. The company has a quick ratio of 0.84, a current ratio of 1.11 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.14. The company has a 50 day moving average of $284.38 and a two-hundred day moving average of $277.06.
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IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX)
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. develops, manufactures, and distributes products primarily for the companion animal veterinary, livestock and poultry, dairy, and water testing markets in Africa, the Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Companion Animal Group; Water Quality Products; and Livestock, Poultry and Dairy.
Shares of NASDAQ IDXX traded down $10.08 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $696.57. The company had a trading volume of 228,115 shares, compared to its average volume of 582,156. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a quick ratio of 0.87 and a current ratio of 1.19. The company has a market capitalization of $54.88 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 47.00 and a beta of 1.55. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $549.78 and a two-hundred day moving average of $573.40. IDEXX Laboratories has a 12-month low of $500.61 and a 12-month high of $769.98.
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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.
SMR traded down $0.24 on Tuesday, reaching $5.20. 23,938,327 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 31,508,260. The company has a market cap of $2.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.39 and a beta of 2.42. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $7.37 and its 200-day moving average price is $10.49. NuScale Power has a 52-week low of $4.28 and a 52-week high of $28.13.
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