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CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (CX)

NYSE / Basic Materials / Construction Materials

Share price

10.06 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

14.60B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2024, filed Apr 28, 2025
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
8, FY2017 to FY2024
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

9.4% Computed

From the FY2024 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

15.54x Computed

FY2024 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

6.1% Computed

FY2024 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, by fiscal year

FY2014 Revenue: 985.3M USDFY2014 Net income: -33.4M USDFY2015 Revenue: 731.1M USDFY2015 Net income: 4.0M USDFY2017 Revenue: 12.93B USDFY2017 Net income: 792.0M USDFY2018 Revenue: 13.53B USDFY2018 Net income: 528.0M USDFY2019 Revenue: 12.96B USDFY2019 Net income: 143.0M USDFY2020 Revenue: 12.67B USDFY2020 Net income: -1.47B USDFY2021 Revenue: 14.38B USDFY2021 Net income: 753.0M USDFY2022 Revenue: 14.71B USDFY2022 Net income: 858.0M USDFY2023 Revenue: 16.55B USDFY2023 Net income: 182.0M USDFY2024 Revenue: 16.20B USDFY2024 Net income: 939.0M USD
Revenue Net income10 fiscal years; a year whose statement names no SEC filing is market data, and the table in Filings says which.
Named tests met
4 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 15.54x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2024 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Basic Materials sector (124 companies), 15.54x sits at the 31st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.03x to 34.97x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 9.4% in FY2024, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Basic Materials sector (99 companies), 9.4% sits at the 60th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.5% to 12.9%.

Is it safe

Net debt to EBITDA was 1.90x in FY2024, in the band labelled "Moderate" (1.00x to 2.50x), on lines set by credit-analyst convention.

No peer distribution is published for net debt to EBITDA today; the year-by-year comparison uses the filed annual figures.

Year by year against peers
Whether CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Basic Materials sector, year by year. (FY2021 to FY2024, 4 fiscal years of CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.'s debt to equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2015 to FY2024, 10 filed years of CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.)
What could explain it
What in CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., and where in its filings. (4 questions for CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (14 of sixteen figures read for CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.)

These are CX’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2024 annual report: 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, accession 0001193125-25-097693.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax9.4% ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Return on equity7.7% ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Return on capital employed, pre-tax8.6% ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Return on assets3.4% ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Gross margin33.6% ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Operating margin11.2% ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Net margin5.8% ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
CX 5.8%
JHX 2.1%AMRZ 10.0%CRH 10.0%VMC 13.6%MLM 18.5%
2.1%18.5%
Net margin: CX against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.55 ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Current ratio0.82 ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Quick ratio0.58 ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Altman Z-score1.63 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Net debt5.84B ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Total assets 27.30BTotal liabilities 14.82BShareholders' equity 12.18BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2024, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693).

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V: balance sheet position
Total assets27.30B FiledFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025
Total liabilities14.82B FiledFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025
Shareholders' equity12.18B FiledFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025
Cash864.0M FiledFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025
Total debt6.70B FiledFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025
Net debt5.84B
Current ratio0.82
Debt to equity0.55
  • Interest cover: FY2024: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings15.54x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.20x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Price to sales0.90x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Enterprise value to EBIT11.22x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Enterprise value to EBITDA6.65x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Price to earnings over growth0.33 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2024 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value CX on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V: valuation
Share price10.06 USD
Market capitalisation14.60B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA6.65x
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per share, FY2015n/a

Diluted earnings per share, FY2015: Filed before the 26-for-25 split on 29 Apr 2016 and the 26-for-25 split on 3 May 2017, and the filing it was read from cannot be placed against them, so it is not put on today's share count and is not shown beside figures that are.

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V

  1. James Hardie Industries plc (JHX)Market cap 15.04B USD
  2. Amrize Ltd (AMRZ)Market cap 20.41B USD
  3. CRH plc (CRH)Market cap 54.77B USD
  4. Vulcan Materials Company (VMC)Market cap 32.71B USD
  5. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (MLM)Market cap 29.51B USD

Same industry (Construction Materials) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield6.1% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Free cash flow894.0M USD ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Free cash flow margin5.5% ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Dividend yield
Why n/a

The newest cash flow statement on file ended more than fifteen months ago, so it says nothing about today's yield.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Payout ratio9.6% ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
FY2014 Free cash flow: 336.4M USDFY2014 Net income: -33.4M USDFY2015 Free cash flow: 539.4M USDFY2015 Net income: 4.0M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 1.28B USDFY2017 Net income: 792.0M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 966.0M USDFY2018 Net income: 528.0M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 704.0M USDFY2019 Net income: 143.0M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 1.06B USDFY2020 Net income: -1.47B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 1.07B USDFY2021 Net income: 753.0M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 613.0M USDFY2022 Net income: 858.0M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 1.36B USDFY2023 Net income: 182.0M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 894.0M USDFY2024 Net income: 939.0M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
15.54xFY2024Oct 15, 2026
1.20xFY2024Oct 15, 2026
11.22xFY2024Oct 15, 2026
6.1%FY2024Oct 15, 2026
9.4%FY2024Apr 28, 2025
n/aFY2024Oct 15, 2026
n/a The newest cash flow statement on file ended more than fifteen months ago, so it says nothing about today's yield.
0.55FY2024Apr 28, 2025
0.82FY2024Apr 28, 2025
0.90xFY2024Oct 15, 2026
0.33FY2024Oct 15, 2026
1.63FY2024Oct 15, 2026
-2.67FY2024Apr 28, 2025
7/9FY2024Apr 28, 2025

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2024, the newest full year on file. 8 filed fiscal years on record, FY2017 to FY2024, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 fiscal years, FY2014 to FY2024. 8 read from the annual reports CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V filed with the SEC, each naming its filing; the rest from statements that name none, which are market data. Amounts in USD, as reported.

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202416.20B1.82B939.0Mn/a894.0M11.2%7.7%20-F, Apr 28, 20250001193125-25-097693
FY202316.55B1.75B182.0Mn/a1.36B10.6%1.6%20-F, Apr 29, 20240001193125-24-119054
FY202214.71B873.0M858.0Mn/a613.0M5.9%8.2%20-F, May 1, 20230001193125-23-128248
FY202114.38B1.64B753.0Mn/a1.07B11.4%7.7%20-F, Apr 29, 20220001193125-22-133730
FY202012.67B-471.0M-1.47Bn/a1.06B-3.7%-18.2%20-F, Apr 23, 20210001193125-21-129260
FY201912.96B965.0M143.0Mn/a704.0M7.5%1.5%20-F, Apr 29, 20200001193125-20-126557
FY201813.53B1.41B528.0Mn/a966.0M10.4%5.6%20-F, Apr 25, 20190001193125-19-117579
FY201712.93B1.53B792.0Mn/a1.28B11.8%8.8%20-F, Apr 30, 20180001193125-18-143360
FY2015731.1M79.5M4.0Mn/a539.4M10.9%0.1%Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
FY2014985.3M82.8M-33.4Mn/a336.4M8.4%n/aMarket data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2014 to FY2024: 32.3%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2014 and 2024, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2014 to FY2024: 10.3%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.67 ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Piotroski F-score7/9 ComputedFY2024 20-F, filed Apr 28, 2025, 0001193125-25-097693
Named tests met4 of 30 Computed
Beta0.99 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 4 met, 23 not met, 3 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC; Owner earnings yield; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(6)
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.
  • Dividend Yield: The newest cash flow statement on file ended more than fifteen months ago, so it says nothing about today's yield.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

A thesis is your reason for owning it, in your words, with the figures that must stay true. Checking those figures every night against the newest filed accounts, and telling you once when one breaks, is what the subscription adds.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 6 figures could not be read on this company, among them Positive Earnings Streak, Eps Growth 5Y, Interest Coverage. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 3 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.
  • We hold 8 filed fiscal years rather than 10, so the run above is shorter than a full decade and is counted as what it is.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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