On July 31, MasTec declined 14.31% in regular trading, trading at approximately $277.64/share, with turnover of $118 million. The drop was triggered by profit-taking after the company's Q2 earnings per share narrowly missed consensus expectations.

MasTec reported adjusted Q2 EPS of $2.22, missing the analyst consensus of $2.23 by 0.45%. Revenue came in at $4.373 billion, beating the $4.305 billion estimate, and EPS grew 48.99% year-over-year. However, the stock had surged approximately 12% during the prior trading session, driven by a broad Construction and Engineering sector rebound and strong earnings expectations. With optimistic sentiment already fully priced in, the marginal EPS miss served as a catalyst for aggressive profit-taking, with shares essentially retracing the entirety of the previous session's gains.

Within the Construction and Engineering sector, other stocks showed mixed performance: Sterling Construction up 5.34%, Comfort Systems USA up 4.34%, Quanta up 3.12%, EMCOR Group up 2.81%, while Dycom declined 3.76%.

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