These 10 Firms Were Thursday’s Top Performers

4. Nuscale Power Corp. (NYSE:SMR)

Nuscale Power Corp. (SMR) saw its share prices grow by 13.73 percent to close at $29.08 apiece as investors bought up on shares on optimism that the energy industry, in general, will bolster under the Trump administration.

In related news, Nuscale also earned a boost from a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), posting a bullish outlook for the nuclear power sector at large, specifically small modular reactors (SMR), which Nuscale Power Corp. (SMR) is betting on as being particularly promising.

At his inauguration on Monday, President Donald Trump said last week that the US would bank on the energy industry to bolster US manufacturing, indicating that the sector is poised for a boom over the next few years.

According to IEA, Nuscale Power’s SMRs in particular offer exciting growth potential.