NYSEMaterialsBuilding MaterialsSnapshot 2026-07-23
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Create your account →Primary pillar under pressure — earnings per share growth: metric not reported.
View ThesisModerate volatility — typically moves about 1% a day.
View RiskCemex (CX) must improve earnings per share growth to justify its current price. The company recently missed earnings expectations by 20%. It trades at a low confidence valuation, with no clean multiple available. The primary risk is that if CX misses again next quarter, estimates may continue to decline. Peer multiples imply a price about 14% above where it trades. This read is provisional.
Daily closes. Earnings/event dots are placed inline.
Industries move in repeating boom-and-bust cycles. This shows where this stock’s industry sits in that cycle, stage by stage (recovery → expansion → supercycle → steady → deceleration → contraction), from its fundamentals (orders, revenue, capital spending), not the stock’s price.
A booming industry is a tailwind for the names in it; a contracting one is a headwind. Companies in the same industry tend to rise and fall together with the cycle, the way a tide lifts and lowers every boat in the harbor at once, so a large part of a stock’s swing can come from where its industry sits rather than from the company itself. It’s context for reading the company’s results, not a buy/sell call. Full explanation →
Materials: fringe margins under pressure (3q confirmed)
The stage band shows the industry’s cycle over the chart’s timeline (each color a stage); a ▼ marks a quarter its growth inflected down — amber is an unconfirmed watch, red is confirmed the next quarter. Use “Overlay cycle on chart” to tint the price chart by stage. The industry’s fundamentals, not a signal on this stock.
Trailing returns as of 2026-07-24. CX is total return (includes dividends); the S&P 500 benchmark is price return (the index excludes dividends).
Based on 15 analysts currently covering CX (as of Jul 2026).
Based on 4 Wall Street analysts offering 12-month price targets for CX in the last 4 months.
A consensus fair price across 2 valuation methods, at three horizons. As of 2026-07-24. Estimates are diagnostics, not price targets. Short-horizon estimates are close to coin-flips, so confidence is a method-agreement read, not a prediction.
Today's peer multiple on trailing earnings, with no growth credited. This is the headline read.
Adds projected growth, so it leans optimistic by design. Read it as upside context, not a base case.
A price-focused, side-by-side fair-value read versus Construction Materials — fair value, gap to price, and forward P/E.
Record FCF but stock decline indicates market concerns.
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End-of-day figures as of 2026-07-24. EPS is implied from price ÷ P/E. Not investment advice.
Current $12.06
The last 12 months of price, then the range of analyst 12-month targets from today’s $12.06.
Analyst ratings and price targets are third-party Wall Street estimates, not QuarterlyIQ’s view. Not investment advice.
A long-thesis check that carries the widest uncertainty of the three horizons.
Labor ruling may affect Cemex's operational regulations.
Dividend announcement signals financial health and shareholder value focus.
