Water Stocks To Follow Now - May 1st

Key Points

• MarketBeat's screener flagged five Water stocks with the highest recent dollar trading volume: Coca‑Cola (KO), NuScale Power (SMR), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), Waters (WAT), and Ecolab (ECL).
• Water stocks give investors exposure to essential, often regulated businesses—utilities, treatment and desalination, infrastructure, sensors and bottled water—whose returns are influenced by population growth, weather, infrastructure spending and environmental regulations.
• Notable distinctions: NuScale is a modular light‑water reactor developer positioning for desalination and industrial heat, while IDEXX and Ecolab emphasize water quality testing and treatment solutions.

CocaCola, NuScale Power, IDEXX Laboratories, Waters, and Ecolab are the five Water stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Water stocks are shares of companies whose primary business involves water — including municipal utilities, treatment and desalination firms, pipeline and infrastructure builders, irrigation and sensor technology providers, and bottled or distributed water producers. Investors use them to gain exposure to the essential and often regulated water sector, whose returns are influenced by factors like population growth, weather patterns, infrastructure spending, and water-rights or environmental regulations. 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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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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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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Waters (WAT)

Waters Corporation provides analytical workflow solutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe. It operates through two segments: Waters and TA. The company designs, manufactures, sells, and services high and ultra-performance liquid chromatography, as well as mass spectrometry (MS) technology systems and support products, including chromatography columns, other consumable products, and post-warranty service plans.

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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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