Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for APG

Among the 19 Construction & Engineering peers screened, FIX (Comfort Systems USA) has tracked APG most closely over the past year, with a return correlation of 0.56. The strongest fund stand-in is VIS (Vanguard Industrials ETF) at 0.71 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
FIX	Comfort Systems USA	Construction & Engineering	0.56	0.57	0.56	0.52
IESC	IES Holdings	Construction & Engineering	0.53	0.48	0.46	0.43
EME	Emcor	Construction & Engineering	0.49	0.53	0.54	0.51
ECG	Everus Construction Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.48	0.48	—	—
FLR	Fluor	Construction & Engineering	0.47	0.46	0.42	0.39
PWR	Quanta Services	Construction & Engineering	0.47	0.55	0.57	0.53
ROAD	Construction Partners, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.46	0.50	0.48	0.45
MTZ	MasTec	Construction & Engineering	0.45	0.52	0.50	0.47
STRL	Sterling Infrastructure	Construction & Engineering	0.45	0.48	0.46	0.42
TPC	Tutor Perini Corporation	Construction & Engineering	0.43	0.40	0.42	0.38
ACA	Arcosa, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.42	0.47	0.46	0.46
MYRG	MYR Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.38	0.52	0.49	0.47
DY	Dycom Industries	Construction & Engineering	0.38	0.40	0.40	0.39
GVA	Granite Construction, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.37	0.41	0.46	0.42
AGX	Argan, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.31	0.33	0.31	0.30
J	Jacobs Solutions	Construction & Engineering	0.31	0.39	0.47	0.45
PRIM	Primoris Services Corporation	Construction & Engineering	0.28	0.37	0.40	0.40
ACM	AECOM	Construction & Engineering	0.27	0.43	0.51	0.48
TTEK	Tetra Tech	Construction & Engineering	0.18	0.25	0.38	0.37

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
VIS	Vanguard Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.71	0.70	0.72	0.66
FIDU	Fidelity MSCI Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.71	0.69	0.72	0.66
PAVE	Global X US Infrastructure	Infrastructure	SECTOR	0.70	0.70	0.72	0.65
XLI	Industrial Select Sector SPDR	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.68	0.67	0.70	0.63
IYJ	iShares US Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.68	0.66	0.71	0.66
XAR	SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense	Aerospace & Defense (Equal Wt)	INDUSTRY	0.54	0.54	0.59	0.55
PPA	Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.53	0.55	0.58	0.55
BOTZ	Global X Robotics & AI	Robotics & AI	SECTOR	0.52	0.59	0.64	0.58
XTN	SPDR S&P Transportation ETF	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.51	0.53	0.61	0.57
IYT	iShares Transportation Average	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.49	0.52	0.60	0.56
ITA	iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.49	0.49	0.54	0.51
JETS	US Global Jets ETF	Airlines	SUB-IND	0.47	0.49	0.55	0.48

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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.