Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for EME

Among the 19 Construction & Engineering peers screened, FIX (Comfort Systems USA) has tracked EME most closely over the past year, with a return correlation of 0.82. The strongest fund stand-in is PAVE (Global X US Infrastructure) at 0.64 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	0.82	0.83	0.81	0.73
PWR	Quanta Services	Construction & Engineering	0.78	0.75	0.69	0.66
ECG	Everus Construction Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.69	0.64	—	—
MYRG	MYR Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.68	0.63	0.62	0.58
IESC	IES Holdings	Construction & Engineering	0.67	0.69	0.62	0.57
MTZ	MasTec	Construction & Engineering	0.67	0.66	0.60	0.61
STRL	Sterling Infrastructure	Construction & Engineering	0.66	0.68	0.64	0.59
TPC	Tutor Perini Corporation	Construction & Engineering	0.58	0.46	0.44	0.47
DY	Dycom Industries	Construction & Engineering	0.56	0.53	0.51	0.50
AGX	Argan, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.52	0.52	0.48	0.44
FLR	Fluor	Construction & Engineering	0.49	0.49	0.48	0.48
APG	APi Group	Construction & Engineering	0.49	0.53	0.54	0.51
PRIM	Primoris Services Corporation	Construction & Engineering	0.47	0.57	0.56	0.58
ROAD	Construction Partners, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.40	0.51	0.48	0.47
GVA	Granite Construction, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.39	0.47	0.48	0.55
ACA	Arcosa, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.39	0.47	0.47	0.49
ACM	AECOM	Construction & Engineering	0.12	0.31	0.40	0.55
J	Jacobs Solutions	Construction & Engineering	0.09	0.27	0.35	0.50
TTEK	Tetra Tech	Construction & Engineering	-0.07	0.10	0.23	0.41

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	0.64	0.67	0.67	0.69
FIDU	Fidelity MSCI Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.61	0.63	0.63	0.67
VIS	Vanguard Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.61	0.62	0.63	0.67
XLI	Industrial Select Sector SPDR	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.57	0.59	0.60	0.65
BOTZ	Global X Robotics & AI	Robotics & AI	SECTOR	0.56	0.57	0.54	0.54
IYJ	iShares US Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.50	0.55	0.57	0.63
XAR	SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense	Aerospace & Defense (Equal Wt)	INDUSTRY	0.49	0.53	0.54	0.60
PPA	Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.44	0.52	0.54	0.61
ITA	iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.41	0.48	0.51	0.58
JETS	US Global Jets ETF	Airlines	SUB-IND	0.32	0.37	0.40	0.48
XTN	SPDR S&P Transportation ETF	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.26	0.35	0.41	0.54
IYT	iShares Transportation Average	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.24	0.34	0.40	0.54

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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.