Best Construction Stocks To Keep An Eye On - May 7th

Key Points

• MarketBeat’s screener names Caterpillar (CAT), Quanta Services (PWR), and AAON (AAON) as the three construction stocks to watch after they recorded the highest dollar trading volume among construction names in recent days.
• Those companies cover different parts of the construction ecosystem: Caterpillar makes heavy construction and mining equipment, Quanta Services focuses on electric/gas utility and renewable infrastructure, and AAON produces HVAC and building climate systems.
• Construction stocks are inherently cyclical and sensitive to interest rates, housing demand, and government infrastructure spending, so their performance typically tracks broader economic growth and policy-driven construction activity.

Caterpillar, Quanta Services, and AAON are the three Construction stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Construction stocks are shares of companies whose core businesses involve building and developing physical structures or supplying the materials and equipment used in those activities — including contractors, homebuilders, engineering firms, and manufacturers of cement, steel, and construction machinery. Investors treat them as a cyclical sector that is sensitive to interest rates, housing demand, and government infrastructure spending, so their performance often tracks broader economic growth and policy-driven construction activity. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Construction stocks within the last several days.

Caterpillar (CAT)

Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives in worldwide. Its Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, compactors, road reclaimers, forestry machines, cold planers, material handlers, track-type tractors, excavators, telehandlers, motor graders, and pipelayers; compact track, wheel, track-type, backhoe, and skid steer loaders; and related parts and tools.

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Quanta Services (PWR)

Quanta Services, Inc. provides infrastructure solutions for the electric and gas utility, renewable energy, communications, and pipeline and energy industries in the United States, Canada, Australia, and internationally. The company's Electric Power Infrastructure Solutions segment engages in the design, procurement, construction, upgrade, repair, and maintenance of electric power transmission and distribution infrastructure and substation facilities; installation, maintenance, and upgrade of electric power infrastructure projects; installation of smart grid technologies on electric power networks; and design, installation, maintenance, and repair of commercial and industrial wirings.

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AAON (AAON)

AAON, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and selling air conditioning and heating equipment in the United States and Canada. The company operates through three segments: AAON Oklahoma, AAON Coil Products, and BASX. It offers rooftop units, data center cooling solutions, cleanroom systems, chillers, packaged outdoor mechanical rooms, air handling units, makeup air units, energy recovery units, condensing units, geothermal/water-source heat pumps, coils, and controls.

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