Top Construction Stocks To Consider – May 27th

United States Steel, Berkshire Hathaway, IonQ, Progressive, and Caterpillar are the five Construction stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Construction stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose core business involves building infrastructure and structures—ranging from residential and commercial developments to roads, bridges, and industrial facilities. They encompass firms that provide construction services, supply building materials (like cement and steel), or manufacture heavy machinery and equipment used on job sites. Because they’re tied to real-estate markets, government infrastructure spending and broader economic cycles, their performance often reflects changes in interest rates and fiscal policy. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Construction stocks within the last several days.

United States Steel (X)

United States Steel Corporation produces and sells flat-rolled and tubular steel products primarily in North America and Europe. The company operates through North American Flat-Rolled (Flat-Rolled), Mini Mill, U. S. Steel Europe (USSE), and Tubular Products (Tubular) segments. The Flat-Rolled segment offers slabs, strip mill plates, sheets, and tin mill products, as well as iron ore and coke.

NYSE:X traded up $1.07 during midday trading on Tuesday, hitting $53.08. The stock had a trading volume of 35,167,215 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,975,147. United States Steel has a one year low of $26.92 and a one year high of $54.00. The company has a market capitalization of $12.02 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.60, a PEG ratio of 1.53 and a beta of 1.82. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $42.48 and a 200 day moving average of $38.71. The company has a quick ratio of 0.91, a current ratio of 1.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.36.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

Shares of BRK.B traded up $5.55 during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting $509.01. The company had a trading volume of 2,688,126 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,310,673. The company has a market capitalization of $1.10 trillion, a PE ratio of 10.28, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.45 and a beta of 0.88. Berkshire Hathaway has a one year low of $401.58 and a one year high of $542.07. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $518.85 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $489.01.

IonQ (IONQ)

IonQ, Inc. engages in the development of general-purpose quantum computing systems in the United States. It sells access to quantum computers of various qubit capacities. The company makes access to its quantum computers through cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon Braket, Microsoft’s Azure Quantum, and Google’s Cloud Marketplace, as well as through its cloud service.

Shares of IonQ stock traded up $0.71 during trading on Tuesday, reaching $46.40. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 24,379,144 shares, compared to its average volume of 17,545,735. The company has a market cap of $10.34 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -57.11 and a beta of 2.46. IonQ has a 1-year low of $6.22 and a 1-year high of $54.74. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $28.27 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $32.20.

Progressive (PGR)

The Progressive Corporation, an insurance holding company, provides personal and commercial auto, personal residential and commercial property, business related general liability, and other specialty property-casualty insurance products and related services in the United States. It operates in three segments: Personal Lines, Commercial Lines, and Property.

PGR stock traded up $1.77 during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching $279.07. The stock had a trading volume of 1,882,848 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,642,384. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $275.30 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $263.06. The stock has a market cap of $163.60 billion, a PE ratio of 19.38, a P/E/G ratio of 1.70 and a beta of 0.40. Progressive has a 52-week low of $201.34 and a 52-week high of $292.99. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27, a quick ratio of 0.30 and a current ratio of 0.31.

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.

NYSE CAT traded up $8.47 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $351.86. 1,355,684 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,633,185. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.40, a quick ratio of 0.89 and a current ratio of 1.42. Caterpillar has a 1 year low of $267.30 and a 1 year high of $418.50. The business’s 50 day moving average is $318.35 and its 200-day moving average is $351.79. The company has a market capitalization of $165.74 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.94, a P/E/G ratio of 1.87 and a beta of 1.35.