Water Stocks To Keep An Eye On - May 5th

Key Points

• MarketBeat's screener highlights Waters (WAT), Coca‑Cola (KO), IDEXX (IDXX), NuScale Power (SMR), and Ecolab (ECL) as the five "water stocks" to watch because they posted the highest dollar trading volume among water-related companies in recent days.
• "Water stocks" comprise firms that supply, treat, manage, or enable freshwater—utilities, treatment/desalination, metering/technology, infrastructure, and bottled-water producers—and are often viewed as defensive, long-term plays tied to population growth and water scarcity but carry regulatory, infrastructure, and climate-related risks.
• Roles range from analytical instruments (Waters) and bottled beverages (Coca‑Cola) to water-quality testing (IDEXX), modular reactors for power/desalination (NuScale), and industrial/municipal water-treatment and hygiene solutions (Ecolab).

Waters, CocaCola, IDEXX Laboratories, NuScale Power, and Ecolab are the five Water stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. "Water stocks" are shares of companies whose principal businesses involve supplying, treating, managing, or enabling the use of freshwater — including utilities, infrastructure and engineering firms, treatment and desalination companies, metering and technology providers, and bottled-water producers. Investors often treat them as defensive, long-term plays tied to population growth and water scarcity, while noting they carry regulatory, infrastructure and climate-related risks. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Water stocks within the last several days.

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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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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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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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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