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STRL vs VSEC

Side-by-side comparison of Sterling Infrastructure Inc. (STRL) and VSE Corporation (VSEC): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • STRL operates in Industrials, while VSEC operates in Consumer Discretionary - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • STRL is the larger of the two at $14.41B, about 3.2x VSEC ($4.49B).
  • Over the past year, STRL is up 244.7% and VSEC is up 46.5% - STRL leads by 198.2 points.
  • Both names hit the wire about 5 times in the past 4 weeks.
  • VSEC has more recent analyst coverage (13 ratings vs 7 for STRL).
PerformanceSTRL+244.69%VSEC+46.48%
2025-04-30+0.00%2026-04-30
MetricSTRLVSEC
Company
Sterling Infrastructure Inc.
VSE Corporation
Price
$514.87+9.62%
$167.97+4.82%
Market cap
$14.41B
$4.49B
1M return
+26.45%
-9.01%
1Y return
+244.69%
+46.48%
Industry
Military/Government/Technical
Military/Government/Technical
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
News (4w)
5
5
Recent ratings
7
13
STRL

Sterling Infrastructure Inc.

Sterling Construction Company, Inc., a construction company, engages in the heavy civil, specialty services, and residential construction activities primarily in the southern United States, the Rocky Mountain states, California, and Hawaii. The company undertakes various heavy civil construction projects, including highways, roads, bridges, airfields, ports, light rail, water, wastewater and storm drainage systems for the departments of transportation in various states, regional transit authorities, airport authorities, port authorities, water authorities, and railroads. It offers specialty services such as foundations for multi-family homes, parking structures, and other commercial concrete projects for blue-chip end users in the e-commerce, data center, distribution center and warehousing, energy, mixed use, and multi-family sectors. The company also undertakes concrete foundations for single-family homes. In addition, it provides surveying, clearing and grubbing, erosion control, grading, grassing, site excavation, storm drainage, sanitary sewer and water main installation, drilling and blasting, curb and gutter, paving, concrete work, and landfill services. The company was formerly known as Oakhurst Company, Inc. and changed its name to Sterling Construction Company, Inc. in November 2001. Sterling Construction Company, Inc. was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

VSEC

VSE Corporation

VSE Corporation operates as a diversified products and services aftermarket company in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Aviation, Fleet, and Federal and Defense. The Aviation segment provides international parts supply and distribution, supply chain solutions, and component and engine accessory maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services. This segment serves commercial airlines, regional airlines, cargo transporters, MRO integrators and providers, aviation manufacturers, corporate and private aircraft owners, and fixed-base operators (FBOs). The Fleet segment provides parts supply, inventory management, e-commerce fulfillment, logistics, data management, and other services to assist aftermarket commercial and federal customers. This segment also provides sale of vehicle parts and mission critical supply chain services to support client truck fleets, as well as sustainment solutions and managed inventory services to government and commercial truck fleets. The Federal and Defense segment provides aftermarket refurbishment and sustainment services to extend and maintain the life cycle of military vehicles, ships, and aircraft for the DoD. This segment also provides foreign military sales services, engineering, logistics, maintenance, configuration management, prototyping, technology, and field support services to the DoD, and other customers. In addition, this segment offers energy consulting services and IT solutions to various DoD, federal civilian agencies, and commercial clients. The company also provides vehicle and equipment maintenance and refurbishment, logistics, engineering support, energy services, IT and health care IT solutions, as well as consulting services. VSE Corporation was incorporated in 1959 and is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.