Water Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - May 3rd

Key Points

• MarketBeat's screener flagged five "Water" stocks with the highest recent dollar trading volume: Coca‑Cola (KO), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), Ecolab (ECL), American Water Works (AWK), and NuScale Power (SMR).
• These water stocks span supply, treatment, distribution, infrastructure and technology and are often viewed as defensive, long‑term plays tied to population growth and water scarcity, though they can be capital‑intensive and subject to regulatory and regional demand risks.
• The mix includes traditional utilities and industrial suppliers as well as non‑traditional names (e.g., beverage and nuclear/desalination developers), highlighting varied business models investors should consider within the water theme.

CocaCola, IDEXX Laboratories, Ecolab, American Water Works, and NuScale Power are the five Water stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. "Water stocks" are publicly traded companies whose primary businesses involve the supply, treatment, distribution, infrastructure, or technology of water—this includes utilities, water‑treatment firms, pipeline and infrastructure contractors, and makers of pumps, sensors, and filtration equipment. Investors often view them as defensive, long‑term plays tied to population growth and water scarcity, while noting they can be capital‑intensive and subject to regulatory and regional demand risks. 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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