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AYI "?u Acuity Brands Inc. designs, produces, and distributes various lighting solutions and services for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. The company offers lighting and control products and solutions, including recessed, surface, and suspended lighting; down lighting; decorative lighting; emergency and exit lighting; track lighting; special-use lighting; street and roadway lighting; parking garage lighting; underwater lighting; area pedestrian, flood, and decorative site lighting; landscape lighting; occupancy sensors; photo controls; relay panels; architectural dimming panels; and integrated lighting controls systems.
NYSE: AYI

BGG "?u Briggs & Stratton Corp. designs, manufactures, markets, sells, and services gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment to the original equipment manufacturers. The Engines segment offers four-cycle aluminum alloy gasoline engines that are used primarily by the lawn and garden equipment industry. The Products segment provides a line of portable and standby generators, pressure washers, snow throwers, lawn and garden power equipment, turf care, and job site products.
NYSE: BGG

BZH "?u Beazer Homes USA, Inc. operates as a homebuilder in the United States. The company designs, constructs, and sells single-family and multi-family homes for entry-level, move-up, or retirement-oriented homebuyers under the Beazer Homes brand name.
NYSE: BZH

CAT "?u Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives worldwide. The company's Construction Industries segment offers backhoe, small wheel, skid steer, multi-terrain, compact track, medium and compact wheel, and track-type loaders; mini, wheel, and track excavators; track-type tractors; and select work tools, motor graders, telehandlers, soil compactors, and pipe layers.
NYSE: CAT

CENT "?u Central Garden & Pet Company, together with its subsidiaries, produces and markets products for the pet, and lawn and garden supplies industries. It operates through two segments, Pet and Garden. The Garden segment provides grass seeds; wild bird feed, bird feeders, insect control products, bird houses, and other birding accessories; weed, grass, ant and other herbicide, insecticide, and pesticide products; and decorative outdoor lifestyle and lighting products, such as pottery, trellises and other wood products, and holiday lighting products.
NASDAQ: CENT

CHCI "?u Comstock Holding Companies Inc. operates as a real estate development and construction services company. The company builds multi-family units, single-family homes, townhouses, mid-rise condominiums, high-rise multi-family condominiums, and residential and commercial developments. It also provides real estate management services, and construction management, general contracting, and other real estate related services to other property owners.
NASDAQ: CHCI

CMI "?u Cummins Inc. designs, manufactures, distributes and services diesel and natural gas engines, and engine-related component products. The Engine segment offers various diesel and natural gas powered engines under the Cummins and other customer brand names for the heavy-and medium-duty truck, bus, recreational vehicle, light-duty automotive, agricultural, construction, mining, marine, oil and gas, rail, and governmental equipment markets.
NYSE: CMI

CVCO "?u Cavco Industries Inc. engages in the design, production, and retail sale of manufactured homes in the United States. It operates through two segments, Factory-Built Housing and Financial Services. The company markets its manufactured homes under the Cavco Homes, Fleetwood Homes, Palm Harbor Homes, Fairmont Homes, and Chariot Eagle brands.
NASDAQ: CVCO

CX "?u CEMEX produces, markets, distributes, and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and other construction materials. The company also offers various complementary construction products, including asphalt products; concrete blocks and roof tiles; architectural products; concrete pipes for storm and sanitary sewers applications; and other precast products comprising rail products, concrete floors, box culverts, bridges, drainage basins, barriers, and parking curbs.
NYSE: CX

DE "?u Deere & Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes agriculture and turf, and construction and forestry equipment. The company's Agriculture and Turf segment provides agriculture and turf equipment, including large, medium, and utility tractors; loaders; combines, corn pickers, cotton and sugarcane harvesters, and related front-end equipment and sugarcane loaders; and tillage, seeding, and application equipment, including sprayers, nutrient management, and soil preparation machinery. Its Construction and Forestry segment provides backhoe loaders; crawler dozers and loaders; four-wheel-drive loaders; excavators; motor graders; articulated dump trucks; landscape loaders; skid-steer loaders; and log skidders, log loaders, log forwarders, log harvesters, and related attachments that are used in construction, earthmoving, material handling, and timber harvesting applications.
NYSE: DE

DHI "?u D.R. Horton Inc. operates as a homebuilding company. It engages in the acquisition and development of land; and construction and sale of homes in 27 states and 79 markets under the names of D.R. Horton, America's Builder, Express Homes, Emerald Homes, Regent Homes, Crown Communities, and Pacific Ridge Homes. The company constructs and sells single-family detached homes; and attached homes, such as town homes, duplexes, triplexes, and condominiums.
NYSE: DHI

DOW "?u Dow Chemical Company manufactures and supplies products that are used primarily as raw materials in the manufacture of products and services. The Agricultural Sciences segment provides crop protection and seed/plant biotechnology products and technologies, urban pest management solutions, and healthy oils. The Consumer Solutions segment offers semiconductors and organic light-emitting diodes, and adhesives and foams used by the transportation industry. The Infrastructure Solutions segment provides architectural and industrial coatings, construction material ingredients, building insulation, adhesives, and microbial protection products for the oil and gas industry; water technologies; monomers; and silicone and silicone products.
NYSE: DOW

EFOI "?u Energy Focus, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and installs energy-efficient lighting systems. It offers various light-emitting diode (LED) lighting technologies, including military maritime products, such as Military Intellitube, globe lights and berth lights. The company also provides commercial products comprising Commercial Intellitube, a tubular LED (TLED) replacement for linear fluorescent lamps; direct-wire TLED replacements for linear fluorescent lamps; LED dock lights; low and high-bay lighting for high-intensity discharge applications; and LED retrofit kits.
NASDAQ: EFOI

EXP "?u Eagle Materials Inc. produces and sells construction products and building materials for use in residential, industrial, commercial, and infrastructure construction. It also produces materials used for oil and natural gas extraction. The Cement segment is involved in the mining of limestone; and the manufacture, production, distribution, and sale of Portland cement, as well as specialty oil well cement. The Gypsum Wallboard segment engages in the mining of gypsum; and manufacture and sale of gypsum wallboard used to finish the interior walls and ceilings in residential, commercial, and industrial structures. The Recycled Paperboard segment manufactures and sells recycled paperboard to gypsum wallboard manufacturers. The Concrete and Aggregates segment is involved in the sale of ready-mix concrete.
NYSE: EXP

F "?u Ford Motor Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, finances, and services automobiles. The Automotive sector develops, manufactures, distributes, and services passenger cars, trucks, SUVs, light commercial vehicles, trucks, vans, and electrified vehicles, as well as offers parts and accessories. It offers vehicles primarily under the Ford and Lincoln brand names.
NYSE: F

FSHOX "?u Fidelity Select Construction and Hsg Port is a fund that seeks capital appreciation and normally invests at least 80% of assets in securities of companies principally engaged in the design and construction of residential, commercial, industrial, and public works facilities, as well as companies engaged in the manufacture, supply, distribution, or sale of construction and housing products or services.
NASDAQ: FSHOX

FOE "?u Ferro Corp., together with its subsidiaries, produces specialty materials. The company's products include frits, porcelain and other glass enamels, glazes, stains, decorating colors, pigments, inks, polishing materials, specialty dielectrics, electronic glasses, and other specialty coatings. Its products are used in appliances, automobiles, building and renovation, electronics, household furnishings, industrial products, and packaging. The company markets and sells its products to manufacturers of ceramic tile, major appliances, construction materials, automobile parts, automobile, architectural and container glass, and electronic components and devices.
NYSE: FOE

GFF "?u Griffon Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in home and building, telephonics, and plastic products businesses. Its Home & Building Products segment offers long handle tools, wheelbarrows, snow tools, decorative plastic, planters and lawn accessories, striking and hand tools, pruning, and garden hose and storage products under the AMES, True Temper, Garant, UnionTools, Hound Dog, Westmix, Cyclone, Southern Patio, Northcote Pottery, Kelso, Darby and Dynamic Design, and Razor-Back and Jackson brands. It also manufactures and markets residential, commercial, and industrial garage doors under the Clopay, America's Favorite Garage Doors, Holmes Garage Door Company, and IDEAL Door brands.
NYSE: GFF

GM "?u General Motors Company designs, builds, and sells cars, crossovers, trucks, and automobile parts. The company operates through GM North America, GM Europe, GM International Operations, GM South America, and GM Financial segments. It markets its vehicles primarily under the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Opel, Holden, Vauxhall, Baojun, Jiefang, and Wuling brand names.
NYSE: GM

GVA "?u Granite Construction Inc. operates as a heavy civil contractor and a construction materials producer. The Construction segment undertakes construction projects such as streets, roads, highways, bridges, site work, power-related facilities, utilities, and other infrastructure projects. This segment serves federal agencies, state departments of transportation, county and city public works departments, school districts and developers, and utilities, as well as the owners of industrial, commercial, and residential sites.
NASDAQ: GVA

HD "?u The Home Depot, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer. It operates The Home Depot stores that sell various building materials, home improvement products, and lawn and garden products, as well as provide installation, home maintenance, and professional service programs to do-it-yourself, do-it-for-me (DIFM), and professional customers.
NYSE: HD

HOV "?u Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. designs, constructs, markets, and sells residential homes. It constructs single-family detached homes, attached townhomes and condominiums, urban infill, and active lifestyle homes. The company markets its homes for first-time buyers, first-time and second-time move-up buyers, luxury buyers, active lifestyle buyers, and empty nesters in 219 communities in 34 markets.
NYSE: HOV

IR "?u Ingersoll-Rand designs, manufactures, sells, and services industrial and commercial products. The company's Climate segment offers building management, bus and rail HVAC, control, container and cryogenic refrigeration, diesel-powered refrigeration, ductless, geothermal, package heating and cooling, rail and self-powered truck refrigeration, temporary heating and cooling, trailer refrigeration, and vehicle-powered truck refrigeration systems.
NYSE: IR

JCTCF "?u Jewett-Cameron Trading Company Ltd., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes specialty metal products, and distributes wood products to home centers and other retailers. The Industrial Wood Products segment processes and distributes industrial wood products; and offers treated plywood to boat manufacturers and the transportation industry. The Lawn, Garden, Pet and Other segment is involved in the wholesale of wood products, such as fencing and landscape timbers; and manufacture and distribution of specialty metal products for dog kennels, gate support systems, fencing, and greenhouses.
NASDAQ: JCTCF

JOE "?u The St. Joe Company operates as a real estate development, asset management, and operating company. The Residential Real Estate segment plans and develops mixed-use resort, and primary and seasonal residential communities. It primarily sells developed home sites and parcels of entitled undeveloped lots. The Commercial Real Estate segment plans, develops, and sells its land holdings for retail, office, hotel, and industrial uses.
NYSE: JOE

KBH "?u KB Home operates as a homebuilding company. It constructs and sells various homes, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes, and condominiums primarily for first-time, move-up, and active adult homebuyers. The company also provides property and casualty insurance, as well as earthquake, flood, and personal property insurance to its homebuyers; title services; and mortgage banking services, including residential mortgage loan originations to its homebuyers.
NYSE: KBH LEN "?u Lennar Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the homebuilding activities. The company operates through Homebuilding East, Homebuilding Central, Homebuilding West, Homebuilding Southeast Florida, Homebuilding Houston, and Homebuilding Other segments. Its homebuilding activities primarily include the construction and sale of single-family attached and detached homes to first-time, move-up, and active adult homebuyers, as well as the purchase, development, and sale of residential land.
NYSE: LEN

LOW "?u Lowe's Companies, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer. It offers products for home maintenance, repair, remodeling, and decorating. The company provides home improvement products in various categories, such as lumber and building materials, tools and hardware, appliances, fashion fixtures, rough plumbing and electrical, lawn and garden, seasonal living, paint, flooring, millwork, kitchens, outdoor power equipment, and home fashions.
NYSE: LOW

MKTAY "?u Makita Corporation manufactures and sells electric power tools, woodworking machines, pneumatic tools, and gardening and household equipment. It offers cordless tools, drilling/fastening products, impact drilling/demolition products, grinding/sanding products, planing/routering products, pneumatic equipment, outdoor power equipment, dust extraction/others, and accessories, as well as cutting equipment for new materials, masonry, and metals. The company also provides sanders, hammer drills, rotary hammers, cutters, and circular saws.
OTC: MKTAY

MLM "?u Martin Marietta Materials Inc. supplies aggregates products and heavy building materials for the construction industry. The company mines, processes, and sells granite, limestone, sand, gravel, and other aggregate products for use in the public infrastructure, and the nonresidential and residential construction industries. It also offers asphalt products, ready mixed concrete, and road paving construction services; and produces Portland and specialty cements for use in infrastructure projects.
NYSE: MLM

NVR "?u NVR Inc. operates as a homebuilder. It primarily constructs and sells single-family detached homes, townhomes, and condominium buildings under the Ryan Homes, NVHomes, Fox Ridge Homes, and Heartland Homes trade names. The company markets its Ryan Homes and Fox Ridge Homes products to first-time and first-time move-up buyers; and NVHomes and Heartland Homes products to move-up and up-scale buyers.
NYSE: NVR

NWL "?u Newell Brands Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes consumer and commercial products worldwide. Its Home Solutions segment provides indoor/outdoor organization, food storage, and home storage products; durable beverage containers; gourmet cookware and cutlery. The Tools segment offers hand and power tool accessories; industrial band saw blades; tools for HVAC systems; and industrial label makers and printers under the Irwin, Lenox, Hilmor, and Dymo Industrial brands. Its Commercial Products segment designs, manufactures and distributes cleaning and refuse products, and material handling solutions under the Rubbermaid Commercial Products brand names.
NYSE: NWL

PHM "?u PulteGroup, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages primarily in the homebuilding business. The company is involved in the acquisition and development of land primarily for residential purposes; and the construction of housing on such land. It offers various home designs, including single-family detached, townhouses, condominiums, and duplexes under the Centex, Pulte Homes, Del Webb, DiVosta Homes John Wieland Homes, and Neighborhoods names.
NYSE: PHM

POOL "?u Pool Corporation distributes swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related leisure products. The company offers about 160,000 national brands and its own branded products. Its products include chemicals, supplies, and pool accessories; repair and replacement parts for pool equipment, including cleaners, filters, heaters, pumps, and lights; packaged pool kits; pool equipment and components for new pool construction and the remodeling of existing pools; and irrigation and landscape products. The company also distributes building materials for use in pool installations and remodeling.
NASDAQ: POOL

SITE "?u SiteOne Landscape Supply Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides irrigation supplies; fertilizer and control products, such as herbicides; landscape accessories; turf protection products; grass seed; turf care equipment and golf course maintenance supplies; and nursery goods; as well as hardscapes, including pavers, natural stones, and blocks; and outdoor lighting. The company markets its products primarily to residential and commercial landscape professionals who specialize in the design, installation, and maintenance of lawns, gardens, golf courses, and other outdoor spaces.
NYSE: SITE

SFHI "?u Sports Field Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, sells, and installs synthetic turf products, such as high-end synthetic turf systems, which incorporates third-party pre-engineered structural base system and its proprietary infill matrix called Organite. In addition, it offers design and engineering, and construction management services for the development and building of athletic facilities at colleges, universities, high schools, primary schools, municipalities, the Federal Aviation Administration, and private businesses; the residential and commercial landscaping market; and the golf industry and golf-related venues, such as driving ranges.
OTC: SFHI

SMG "?u The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company manufactures, markets and sells consumer lawn and garden products. The Global Consumer segment offers lawn fertilizers, grass seed products, spreaders, other durable products, and outdoor cleaners, as well as lawn-related weed, pest, and disease control products; water soluble and continuous-release plant foods, potting mixes, garden soils, mulch and decorative groundcover products, landscape weed prevention products, plant-related pest and disease control products, organic garden products, and hydroponic gardening products.
NYSE: SMG

SNA "?u Snap-on Incorporated manufactures and markets tools, equipment, diagnostics, and repair information and systems solutions for professional users. The company operates through Commercial & Industrial Group, Snap-on Tools Group, Repair Systems & Information Group, and Financial Services segments. It offers hand tools, such as wrenches, sockets, ratchet wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers, punches and chisels, saws and cutting tools, pruning tools, torque measuring instruments, and other products; power tools, such as cordless, pneumatic, hydraulic, and corded tools comprising impact wrenches, ratchets, screwdrivers, drills, sanders, grinders, and related products; and tool storage products comprising tool chests, roll cabinets, and other products.
NYSE: SNA

STN "?u Stantec Inc. provides professional consulting services in the area of infrastructure and facilities for clients. Its services include planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics for infrastructure and facilities projects. The Buildings unit provides pre-design, design, and construction administration services in planning, architecture, buildings engineering, and interior design services. The Energy & Resources unit offers industrial engineering services, project management, and construction management services.
NYSE: STN

SWK "?u Stanley Black & Decker Inc. engages in tools and storage, security, and industrial product businesses. Its Tools & Storage segment provides corded and cordless electric power tools and equipment, including drills, wrenches and drivers, grinders, saws, routers, and sanders; pneumatic tools and fasteners, such as nail guns, nails, staples, and anchors; lawn and garden products comprising trimmers, mowers and edging machines; home products, such as vacuums, paint tools, and cleaning appliances; power tool accessories such as drill and router bits, abrasives, and saw blades; measuring, leveling, and layout tools; planers, hammers, demolition tools, knives, saws and chisels; and storage products, such as tool boxes, sawhorses, medical cabinets, and engineered storage solutions.
NYSE: SWK

SYT "?u Syngenta AG, an agribusiness company, engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of products designed to enhance crop yields and food quality. The company offers herbicides principally for corn, cereals, soybean, and rice; fungicides, primarily for corn, cereals, fruits, grapes, rice, soybean, and vegetables; insecticides for fruits, vegetables, and field crops; and seed care for corn, soybean, cereals, oilseeds, and cotton. In addition, the company offers consumer home and garden products covering fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides to wholesale companies.
NYSE: SYT

TEX "?u Terex Corporation operates as a lifting and material handling solutions company. Its Aerial Work Platforms segment designs, manufactures, services, and markets aerial work platform equipment, telehandlers, and light towers under the Terex and Genie names. The Cranes segment produces mobile telescopic, tower, lattice boom crawler, lattice boom truck, utility equipment, and truck-mounted cranes under the Terex name. The Materials Processing segment provides materials processing equipment, such as crushers, washing systems, screens, apron feeders, and chippers under the Terex, Powerscreen and CBI brands. Its Construction segment offers loader backhoes, mini and midi excavators, wheeled excavators, site dumpers, compaction rollers, and wheel loaders.
NYSE: TEX

TSCO "?u Tractor Supply Company operates rural lifestyle retail stores in the United States. It offers a selection of merchandise, including equine, livestock, pet, and small animal products necessary for their health, care, growth, and containment; hardware, truck, towing, and tool products; seasonal products, such as heating products, lawn and garden items, power equipment, gifts, and toys; work/recreational clothing and footwear; and maintenance products for agricultural and rural use.
NASDAQ: TSCO

TTC "?u The Toro Company designs, manufactures, and markets professional turf maintenance equipment and services, turf irrigation systems, landscaping equipment and lighting products, agricultural micro-irrigation systems, rental and specialty construction equipment, and residential yard and snow thrower products worldwide. Its Professional segment offers turf and landscape equipment products, such as sports fields and grounds maintenance equipment, golf course mowing and maintenance equipment, landscape contractor mowing equipment.
NYSE: TTC

URI "?u United Rentals Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an equipment rental company. The General Rentals segment engages in the rental of general construction and industrial equipment, such as backhoes, skid-steer loaders, forklifts, earthmoving equipment, and material handling equipment; aerial work platforms, such as boom lifts and scissor lifts; and general tools and light equipment comprising pressure washers, water pumps, and power tools.
NYSE: URI

VMC "?u Vulcan Materials Company produces and sells construction aggregates, asphalt mix, and ready-mixed concrete. The Aggregates segment offers crushed stone, sand and gravel, sand, and other aggregates, as well as related products and services. The aggregates are used in publicly funded construction, such as highways, airports, and government buildings. The Asphalt Mix segment offers asphalt mix. The Concrete segment produces and sells ready-mixed concrete.
NYSE: VMC