Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for DY

Among the 19 Construction & Engineering peers screened, MTZ (MasTec) has tracked DY most closely over the past year, with a return correlation of 0.62. The strongest fund stand-in is PAVE (Global X US Infrastructure) at 0.54 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
MTZ	MasTec	Construction & Engineering	0.62	0.59	0.58	0.58
PWR	Quanta Services	Construction & Engineering	0.61	0.56	0.54	0.51
FIX	Comfort Systems USA	Construction & Engineering	0.59	0.52	0.49	0.45
MYRG	MYR Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.56	0.48	0.49	0.48
EME	Emcor	Construction & Engineering	0.56	0.53	0.51	0.50
STRL	Sterling Infrastructure	Construction & Engineering	0.55	0.51	0.48	0.40
ECG	Everus Construction Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.55	0.47	—	—
AGX	Argan, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.49	0.42	0.37	0.34
TPC	Tutor Perini Corporation	Construction & Engineering	0.47	0.37	0.37	0.26
IESC	IES Holdings	Construction & Engineering	0.46	0.45	0.42	0.38
GVA	Granite Construction, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.42	0.40	0.43	0.40
FLR	Fluor	Construction & Engineering	0.40	0.36	0.37	0.39
PRIM	Primoris Services Corporation	Construction & Engineering	0.39	0.45	0.45	0.47
APG	APi Group	Construction & Engineering	0.38	0.40	0.40	0.39
ROAD	Construction Partners, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.37	0.40	0.40	0.35
ACA	Arcosa, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.31	0.36	0.38	0.47
J	Jacobs Solutions	Construction & Engineering	0.05	0.15	0.25	0.35
ACM	AECOM	Construction & Engineering	0.02	0.20	0.31	0.45
TTEK	Tetra Tech	Construction & Engineering	-0.04	0.10	0.23	0.36

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	0.54	0.49	0.51	0.57
VIS	Vanguard Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.49	0.47	0.49	0.54
FIDU	Fidelity MSCI Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.49	0.47	0.49	0.54
XLI	Industrial Select Sector SPDR	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.45	0.45	0.47	0.52
XAR	SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense	Aerospace & Defense (Equal Wt)	INDUSTRY	0.41	0.42	0.43	0.48
IYJ	iShares US Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.41	0.42	0.45	0.52
BOTZ	Global X Robotics & AI	Robotics & AI	SECTOR	0.36	0.41	0.41	0.44
PPA	Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.34	0.40	0.41	0.48
ITA	iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.33	0.38	0.40	0.47
JETS	US Global Jets ETF	Airlines	SUB-IND	0.32	0.32	0.35	0.41
IYT	iShares Transportation Average	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.29	0.31	0.37	0.48
XTN	SPDR S&P Transportation ETF	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.27	0.31	0.37	0.47

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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.