Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for ACA

Among the 19 Construction & Engineering peers screened, TPC (Tutor Perini Corporation) has tracked ACA most closely over the past year, with a return correlation of 0.50. The strongest fund stand-in is PAVE (Global X US Infrastructure) at 0.58 over the past year. Correlations are computed from daily closing-price returns aligned by trading day.

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STOCKS

Single-name peers

Ticker	Name	Sub-industry	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
TPC	Tutor Perini Corporation	Construction & Engineering	0.50	0.44	0.41	0.26
GVA	Granite Construction, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.46	0.50	0.50	0.45
APG	APi Group	Construction & Engineering	0.46	0.49	0.47	0.46
STRL	Sterling Infrastructure	Construction & Engineering	0.44	0.47	0.44	0.46
MYRG	MYR Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.43	0.47	0.47	0.51
EME	Emcor	Construction & Engineering	0.41	0.48	0.48	0.50
ROAD	Construction Partners, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.40	0.51	0.49	0.46
ECG	Everus Construction Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.40	0.42	—	—
IESC	IES Holdings	Construction & Engineering	0.39	0.47	0.44	0.42
PWR	Quanta Services	Construction & Engineering	0.38	0.44	0.46	0.51
FIX	Comfort Systems USA	Construction & Engineering	0.37	0.45	0.46	0.50
DY	Dycom Industries	Construction & Engineering	0.33	0.38	0.39	0.47
MTZ	MasTec	Construction & Engineering	0.28	0.44	0.41	0.46
J	Jacobs Solutions	Construction & Engineering	0.27	0.38	0.41	0.46
PRIM	Primoris Services Corporation	Construction & Engineering	0.27	0.39	0.40	0.49
FLR	Fluor	Construction & Engineering	0.25	0.35	0.37	0.36
ACM	AECOM	Construction & Engineering	0.23	0.42	0.47	0.52
AGX	Argan, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.21	0.29	0.29	0.33
TTEK	Tetra Tech	Construction & Engineering	0.19	0.28	0.34	0.43

ETFS

Fund stand-ins

An ETF is generally not 'substantially identical' to a single stock, which is why funds are the standard wash-sale-aware replacement.

Ticker	Name	Focus	Match	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
PAVE	Global X US Infrastructure	Infrastructure	SECTOR	0.58	0.69	0.66	0.68
FIDU	Fidelity MSCI Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.54	0.64	0.63	0.65
VIS	Vanguard Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.54	0.64	0.62	0.65
IYJ	iShares US Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.52	0.62	0.59	0.63
XLI	Industrial Select Sector SPDR	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.51	0.61	0.59	0.63
JETS	US Global Jets ETF	Airlines	SUB-IND	0.46	0.51	0.48	0.51
IYT	iShares Transportation Average	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.44	0.53	0.52	0.59
XTN	SPDR S&P Transportation ETF	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.42	0.55	0.55	0.59
BOTZ	Global X Robotics & AI	Robotics & AI	SECTOR	0.38	0.53	0.49	0.51
XAR	SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense	Aerospace & Defense (Equal Wt)	INDUSTRY	0.36	0.47	0.51	0.57
PPA	Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.35	0.48	0.51	0.57
ITA	iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.34	0.44	0.48	0.56

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Method: Pearson correlation of daily closing-price returns, Yahoo Finance data, series aligned by trading day, refreshed weekly. A cell is blank when overlapping history covers less than 60% of its window. Correlation is descriptive, not predictive. Wash-sale treatment depends on facts and circumstances — confirm with a tax professional. Not investment advice.