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4 Infrastructure Stocks to Avoid After Sen. Joe Manchin Says He Can't Support Biden's 'Build Back Better' Act

Published 12/21/2021, 11:49 AM
Updated 12/21/2021, 12:30 PM
© Reuters.  4 Infrastructure Stocks to Avoid After Sen. Joe Manchin Says He Can't Support Biden's 'Build Back Better' Act
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President Biden’s Build Back Better plan, if implemented, would be a boon for infrastructure companies. However, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s ‘no’ position on the legislative plan appears to have ruined the attempt to make a huge investment in the country’s infrastructure and social safety net. Hence, we believe it is better now to avoid fundamentally weak infrastructure stocks Nucor (NUE), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Martin Marietta (MLM), and Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP). They could now witness a downturn in the coming months. Let’s discuss.President Biden’s nearly $2 trillion Build Back Better plan was expected to revamp the country’s traditional infrastructure. Therefore, the plan would have created immense opportunities for some of the country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

However, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin recently said that he could not back his party’s Build Back Better Act, making the plan’s prospects uncertain. With concerns that certain spending bill provisions could exacerbate already high inflation, Manchin has long been a holdout on the legislation. Following this decision, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) cut its U.S. growth forecast. Furthermore, the chief economist of Goldman Sachs and the team stated that “We had already expected a negative fiscal impulse for 2022 as a result of the fading support from COVID-relief legislation enacted in 2020 and 2021, and without BBB enactment, this fiscal impulse will become somewhat more negative than we had expected.”

Because Manchin’s decision could eliminate the hoped-for $2 trillion spending to build highways, roads, bridges, and other infrastructures, we think it could be wise to avoid fundamentally weak infrastructure stocks Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE), Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC), Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (NYSE:MLM) and Eagle Materials Inc . (EXP).

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