Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for PRIM

Among the 19 Construction & Engineering peers screened, MYRG (MYR Group, Inc.) has tracked PRIM most closely over the past year, with a return correlation of 0.52. The strongest fund stand-in is PAVE (Global X US Infrastructure) at 0.40 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
MYRG	MYR Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.52	0.53	0.53	0.55
PWR	Quanta Services	Construction & Engineering	0.51	0.59	0.57	0.56
FIX	Comfort Systems USA	Construction & Engineering	0.50	0.56	0.55	0.55
MTZ	MasTec	Construction & Engineering	0.49	0.55	0.54	0.57
ECG	Everus Construction Group, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.48	0.48	—	—
EME	Emcor	Construction & Engineering	0.47	0.57	0.56	0.58
IESC	IES Holdings	Construction & Engineering	0.44	0.50	0.49	0.48
DY	Dycom Industries	Construction & Engineering	0.39	0.45	0.45	0.47
STRL	Sterling Infrastructure	Construction & Engineering	0.39	0.49	0.51	0.49
AGX	Argan, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.37	0.41	0.41	0.42
TPC	Tutor Perini Corporation	Construction & Engineering	0.35	0.38	0.40	0.31
FLR	Fluor	Construction & Engineering	0.32	0.40	0.42	0.43
GVA	Granite Construction, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.31	0.41	0.44	0.46
APG	APi Group	Construction & Engineering	0.28	0.37	0.40	0.40
ACA	Arcosa, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.25	0.38	0.40	0.48
ROAD	Construction Partners, Inc.	Construction & Engineering	0.25	0.40	0.40	0.42
J	Jacobs Solutions	Construction & Engineering	0.19	0.30	0.35	0.42
ACM	AECOM	Construction & Engineering	0.07	0.27	0.34	0.48
TTEK	Tetra Tech	Construction & Engineering	0.01	0.13	0.21	0.34

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	0.40	0.51	0.53	0.59
VIS	Vanguard Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.36	0.46	0.49	0.55
FIDU	Fidelity MSCI Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.36	0.46	0.49	0.55
XLI	Industrial Select Sector SPDR	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.32	0.43	0.47	0.53
BOTZ	Global X Robotics & AI	Robotics & AI	SECTOR	0.32	0.42	0.43	0.45
IYJ	iShares US Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.29	0.41	0.45	0.51
PPA	Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.22	0.37	0.42	0.50
XAR	SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense	Aerospace & Defense (Equal Wt)	INDUSTRY	0.22	0.37	0.42	0.51
ITA	iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.17	0.32	0.37	0.47
JETS	US Global Jets ETF	Airlines	SUB-IND	0.16	0.27	0.32	0.43
XTN	SPDR S&P Transportation ETF	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.12	0.27	0.34	0.46
IYT	iShares Transportation Average	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.10	0.25	0.32	0.45

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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.