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Top Water Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - March 29th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat’s screener names Coca‑Cola (KO), Ecolab (ECL) and IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX) as the three Water stocks to watch today.
  • “Water stocks” are firms involved in supplying, treating, distributing or managing water and attract investors for long-term demand drivers like population growth and climate stress, though performance is influenced by regulation, water‑rights issues and infrastructure spending cycles.
  • The picks were based on the highest dollar trading volume among Water stocks in the past several days, and MarketBeat provides research reports for each company.
  • Five stocks we like better than CocaCola.

CocaCola, Ecolab, and IDEXX Laboratories are the three Water stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Water stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary businesses involve supplying, treating, distributing or managing water — including utilities, infrastructure contractors, treatment and desalination firms, and water-technology or equipment providers. Investors look to them for exposure to an essential, often-regulated sector with long-term demand drivers like population growth and climate stress, though returns are influenced by local regulation, water-rights issues and infrastructure spending cycles. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Water stocks within the last several days.

CocaCola (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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on KO

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on ECL

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on IDXX

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