CEMEX SAB de CV (CX)

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, marketing, distribution, and sale of cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, urbanization solutions, and other construction materials and services worldwide. It offers gray ordinary portland, white portland, and blended cement products; masonry or mortar products; standard ready-mix, architectural and decorative, rapid-setting, fiber-reinforced, fluid-fill, roller-compacted, self-consolidating, pervious, and antibacterial, and other concrete products; aggregate products, including crushed stone and manufactured sand, gravel, sand, and recycled concrete; and vertua products. The company also provides urbanization solutions for construction chemicals, mortars, concrete products, and asphalt businesses, as well as municipal and industrial waste management solutions; and construction, demolition, and excavation waste solutions. CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. was founded in 1906 and is based in San Pedro Garza García, Mexico.

Ticker: CX
Exchange: NYSE
Sector: Basic Materials
Industry: Building Materials
Market cap: $46.47B
52-week range: $9.30 - $13.67

Valuation

Share price: $10.72 (close of Nov 6, 2026)
P/E (TTM): 74.10x
Price to book: 3.52x
Price to free cash flow: 15.13x
Enterprise value: $51.60B
Book value per share: $3.05

Price performance

Period	Change
1 day	+0.09%
5 days	+0.19%
1 month	+8.06%
3 months	-5.13%
6 months	-20.89%
Year to date	-6.70%
1 year	+5.20%
3 years	+59.76%
5 years	+69.09%
10 years	+33.83%
All time	+23.68%

Short interest

As of: Oct 15, 2026
Short % of float: 1.07%
Shares short: 15.01M
Days to cover: 2.66
Change since prior report: -4.09%
Source: FINRA consolidated short interest

Profitability and growth

Return on equity: 7.04%
Return on invested capital: 3.04%
Return on assets: 3.32%
Return on capital employed: 4.65%
Gross margin: 32.92%
Net margin: 5.95%
EBITDA margin: 14.23%
Revenue growth: 0.43%
Net income growth: 2.24%
Free cash flow growth: 3.63%

Cash flow and balance sheet

Free cash flow yield (TTM): 6.61%
Current ratio: 0.95x
Net debt to EBITDA: 1.67x

Latest reported year

Period end: Dec 31, 2025
Fiscal year: 2025
Revenue: $16.13B
Cost of revenue: $10.82B
Gross profit: $5.31B
EBITDA: $2.30B
Net income: $960.00M
Earnings per share: $0.22
Shares outstanding: 4.35B

Income statement by year

Period end	Revenue	Gross profit	Net income	EPS
2025-12-31	$16.13B	$5.31B	$960.00M	$0.22
2024-12-31	$16.06B	$5.41B	$939.00M	$0.22
2023-12-31	$16.40B	$5.54B	$182.00M	$0.04
2022-12-31	$14.71B	$4.49B	$858.00M	$0.20
2021-12-31	$14.38B	$4.64B	$753.00M	$0.17
2020-12-31	$12.67B	$4.08B	-$1.47B	-$0.33
2019-12-31	$12.96B	$4.25B	$143.00M	$0.03
2018-12-31	$13.53B	$4.68B	$528.00M	$0.11
2017-12-31	$12.93B	$4.56B	$792.00M	$0.17
2016-12-31	$13.37B	$4.80B	$751.90M	$0.17

Margins and returns by year

Period end	Gross margin	Net margin	Return on equity	Return on capital
2025-12-31	32.92%	5.95%	7.04%	3.04%
2024-12-31	33.67%	5.85%	7.53%	9.15%
2023-12-31	33.75%	1.11%	1.50%	4.44%
2022-12-31	30.50%	5.83%	7.87%	3.57%
2021-12-31	32.24%	5.24%	7.33%	8.50%
2020-12-31	32.23%	-11.58%	-16.39%	-2.59%
2019-12-31	32.76%	1.10%	1.32%	4.00%
2018-12-31	34.60%	3.90%	4.77%	5.82%
2017-12-31	35.29%	6.13%	7.47%	6.83%
2016-12-31	35.89%	5.62%	7.92%	7.89%

Cash and debt by year

Period end	Cash	Debt
2025-12-31	$1.82B	$4.46B
2024-12-31	$864.00M	$5.34B
2023-12-31	$624.00M	$6.20B
2022-12-31	$495.00M	$6.92B
2021-12-31	$613.00M	$7.31B
2020-12-31	$950.00M	$9.16B
2019-12-31	$788.00M	$9.30B
2018-12-31	$309.00M	$9.27B
2017-12-31	$699.00M	$9.89B
2016-12-31	$561.00M	$11.38B

Free cash flow by year

Period end	Free cash flow
2025-12-31	$1.03B
2024-12-31	$992.00M
2023-12-31	$1.44B
2022-12-31	$613.00M
2021-12-31	$1.07B
2020-12-31	$1.06B
2019-12-31	$704.00M
2018-12-31	$966.00M
2017-12-31	$1.28B
2016-12-31	$1.86B

Dividend history

Most recent payment: Sep 15, 2026

Payment date	Dividend per share
2026-09-15	$0.03
2026-06-17	$0.03
2026-03-11	$0.02
2025-06-17	$0.02
2025-03-10	$0.02
2024-12-10	$0.02
2024-09-13	$0.02
2024-06-17	$0.02

Investor relations

Past earnings dates

Reported	Fiscal period	EPS estimate
2026-10-26	Sep 2026	$0.25
2026-07-23	Jun 2026	-
2026-04-23	Mar 2026	-
2026-02-05	Dec 2025	-
2025-10-28	Sep 2025	-
2025-07-24	Jun 2025	-
2025-04-28	Mar 2025	-
2025-02-06	Dec 2024	-

Filings and sources

Company website: cemex.com
SEC filings: 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K on EDGAR
Earnings calendar: All upcoming reports

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