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Top Construction Stocks To Research - April 2nd

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Key Points

  • Caterpillar (CAT), Planet Labs (PL), and Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN) were identified by MarketBeat's screener as the top Construction stocks to research, based on the highest dollar trading volume in recent days.
  • Caterpillar manufactures heavy construction and mining equipment and is benefiting from trends like the data‑center boom; Planet Labs provides high‑cadence satellite geospatial data and analytics; Fortune Brands supplies residential home and security products across its Water, Outdoors, and Security segments.
  • MarketBeat notes that construction stocks are typically cyclical and sensitive to economic growth, interest rates, housing starts, and government infrastructure spending, which can mean higher upside in recoveries but greater volatility in downturns.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in May.

Caterpillar, Planet Labs PBC, and Fortune Brands Innovations are the three Construction stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Construction stocks are shares of companies whose primary businesses support building and infrastructure — including general contractors, homebuilders, construction materials manufacturers (cement, steel, lumber), heavy-equipment makers, and engineering or project-management firms. To investors they are typically cyclical and sensitive to economic growth, interest rates, housing starts and government infrastructure spending, often offering higher upside in recoveries but greater volatility during downturns. 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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Planet Labs PBC (PL)

Planet Labs PBC engages in the design, construction, and launch constellations of satellites with the intent of providing high cadence geospatial data delivered to customers through an online platform worldwide. The company's platform offers planet monitoring, basemap, tasking, apps, and application programming interfaces, as well as analytics and planetary variables.

Read Our Latest Research Report on PL

Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN)

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. provides home and security products for residential home repair, remodeling, new construction, and security applications in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Water, Outdoors, and Security. The Water segment manufactures or assembles, and sells faucets, accessories, kitchen sinks, and waste disposals under the Moen, ROHL, Riobel, Victoria+Albert, Perrin & Rowe, Aqualisa, Shaws, Emtek, and Schaub brands.

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