Investopedia: American Reprographics Still Waiting For The Commercial Recovery

Here and there, investors are already seeing certain stocks recovering on the expectation of improving commercial construction activity. To a certain extent, American Reprographics (NYSE:ARC) has been one of them, as the stock has rebounded significantly (on a percentage basis) from its lows in the fall of 2011. That said, there looks to be plenty of opportunity left in these shares if recent signs and portents really do mean that better commercial building activity is on the way.

The Basics
American Reprographics is the largest company in the reprographic services industry, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 15% market share. In fact, because there are so few competitors of any size (ARC is about 10 times the size of its largest competitor), it's actually a little difficult to calculate how much share they have - particularly since the multi-year downturn in commercial building activity has pushed many small companies out of business entirely.

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