Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. (CX)

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Cemex S.A.B. de C.V.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Cemex S.A.B. de C.V.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $13 billion in fiscal 2017 to $16 billion in fiscal 2024, up 3.3% a year; it rose in 4 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 6% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2024-12-31, Cemex S.A.B. de C.V.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 4% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-14, buying about $7 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31, Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 20 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 54 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Cemex S.A.B. de C.V.'s standing among 14 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2024 ranks in the top 12% by size; a net margin of 5.9% ranks in the bottom 46%; revenue growth of 4.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 46% (its annual reports).

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Cemex S.A.B. de C.V.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2024): cash of $864 million against debt of $5.5 billion leaves -17.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 46% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 5.5% of revenue (bottom 46%); a gross margin of 33.6% (top 32%) (its annual report).

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Cemex S.A.B. de C.V.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2024: revenue grew 4.1% a year over the last three filed years against 3.3% over all 8, speeding up (top 18% of its family); the newest year grew -2.1% (bottom 18%); capital spending grew 8.8% a year (bottom 39%) (its annual reports). Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Cemex S.A.B. de C.V.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2024 came in 8.8% below the $18 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 12% of its family); net income of $960 million against a prior three-year average of $621 million (top 27%); a net margin of 5.9% against 4.2% before (top 27%) (its annual reports).