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Top Water Stocks To Watch Now - July 17th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat highlights five water-related stocks to watch now: Coca-Cola, Xylem, Ecolab, IDEXX Laboratories, and American Water Works. These names were among the highest dollar-volume water stocks over the last several days.
  • The article frames “water stocks” broadly as companies tied to water supply, treatment, infrastructure, filtration, distribution, and conservation. That means the list includes both utilities and industrial/healthcare businesses with water exposure.
  • Each featured company has a distinct water-related business focus, from American Water Works’ utility services to Xylem’s water infrastructure products and Ecolab’s water treatment solutions. IDEXX also appears for its water testing products, while Coca-Cola is included due to its beverage and water portfolio.
  • Five stocks we like better than CocaCola.

CocaCola, Xylem, Ecolab, IDEXX Laboratories, and American Water Works are the five Water stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. “Water stocks” are stocks of companies involved in the water industry, such as utilities, treatment, infrastructure, filtration, and distribution. For stock market investors, the term usually refers to shares in businesses that profit from supplying, cleaning, managing, or conserving water resources. 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

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on XYL

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

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on AWK

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