NuScale Power Stock Skyrockets: Here’s Why Investors Are Piling In
NuScale Power's stock just caught fire—and Wall Street's scrambling to fuel the rally. The modular nuclear reactor play surged double-digits today, defying another sleepy session in the energy sector. Here's what lit the fuse.
The catalyst? Whispers of a breakthrough DOE approval for their SMR design hit trading desks before lunch. No official filings yet, but the algos didn't care—they smelled blood in the water.
Why it matters: This isn't just another alt-energy moonshot. NuScale's the only game in town with NRC-certified small modular reactors. When institutional money needs exposure to atomic energy's comeback tour, there's exactly one ticker to buy.
Reality check: Let's see if retail traders remember this company still burns $90M/quarter when the euphoria wears off. Nothing brings gravity back to a nuclear play like a secondary offering at 20% below today's highs.
Fluor is selling NuScale stock
, a major construction and engineering company and a major NuScale shareholder, is looking to convert 15 million of its Class B shares into Class A shares so that it can sell them. This is less about Fluor losing faith in NuScale and more about the extreme volatility of its stock and its effects on Fluor's accounting.
In its latest earnings, Fluor's position contributed to a massive mark-to-market gain. While that sounds great, the constant revisions that come from such an up-and-down stock complicate the company's financial picture for its shareholders.
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NuScale has a ways to go
There is a lot of excitement around SMR technology and nuclear energy in general. The unique approach could help power-hungry facilities that need to be independent from the grid, like artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, achieve those goals.
It is still an emerging technology, however, and comes with significant risk. NuScale is a leader in the space and makes a good pick for investors comfortable with substantial risk and able to stomach a whole lot of volatility.
