Renewable Energy Stocks To Research - August 11th

Key Points

• Quanta Services, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras, and Southern are the top renewable energy stocks to monitor, noted for high trading volumes recently.
• Quanta Services (PWR) has a market capitalization of $57.32 billion and has reached a 1-year high of $424.94, though its shares traded down to $384.66.
• Southern Company (SO) operates in power generation and has a market cap of $103.94 billion, with shares trading at $94.49, down $0.20 on Monday.

Quanta Services, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras, and Southern are the three Renewable Energy stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Renewable energy stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose core business involves generating power from sustainable sources such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal or biomass. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to the growth potential and environmental benefits of clean-energy technologies. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Renewable Energy stocks within the last several days.

Quanta Services (PWR)

Quanta Services, Inc. provides infrastructure solutions for the electric and gas utility, renewable energy, communications, and pipeline and energy industries in the United States, Canada, Australia, and internationally. The company's Electric Power Infrastructure Solutions segment engages in the design, procurement, construction, upgrade, repair, and maintenance of electric power transmission and distribution infrastructure and substation facilities; installation, maintenance, and upgrade of electric power infrastructure projects; installation of smart grid technologies on electric power networks; and design, installation, maintenance, and repair of commercial and industrial wirings.

Shares of PWR stock traded down $1.49 on Monday, reaching $384.66. The company's stock had a trading volume of 567,933 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,426,952. The company has a market capitalization of $57.32 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 59.54, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.30 and a beta of 1.10. The stock's fifty day simple moving average is $380.24 and its 200-day simple moving average is $320.20. Quanta Services has a 1 year low of $227.08 and a 1 year high of $424.94. The company has a current ratio of 1.37, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.59.

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Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras (PBR)

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras explores, produces, and sells oil and gas in Brazil and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Exploration and Production; Refining, Transportation and Marketing; and Gas and Power. The Exploration and Production segment explores, develops, and produces crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas primarily for supplies to the domestic refineries.

Shares of NYSE:PBR traded down $0.01 during midday trading on Monday, reaching $12.12. 17,261,371 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 21,276,488. Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras has a 1 year low of $11.03 and a 1 year high of $15.73. The company has a market cap of $78.07 billion, a P/E ratio of 5.66 and a beta of 0.85. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $12.49 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $12.74. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.76, a quick ratio of 0.47 and a current ratio of 0.72.

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Southern (SO)

The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. The company also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects and sells electricity in the wholesale market; and distributes natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, as well as provides gas marketing services, gas distribution operations, and gas pipeline investments operations.

Shares of NYSE:SO traded down $0.20 during trading on Monday, reaching $94.49. The company had a trading volume of 1,904,309 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,166,571. The stock's fifty day moving average price is $91.95 and its 200 day moving average price is $89.90. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.69, a current ratio of 0.74 and a quick ratio of 0.54. The firm has a market capitalization of $103.94 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.29, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.27 and a beta of 0.38. Southern has a fifty-two week low of $80.46 and a fifty-two week high of $96.44.

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