With 12.12 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 12.8 million shares. During the session, the Building Materials company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $5.375 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $5.1844. The 52-week range on CX shows that it touched its highest point at $8.35 and its lowest point at $4.89 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $8.12. With its current market cap of 8.00 billion, CX has annualized dividend of $0.08 while the current yield stands at 1.56%. CX paid its most recent dividend on 1726185600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741564800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.40.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of CX was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.12%, but this was down by -12.27% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -1.31% while six-month performance fell -10.79%. The stock lost -35.33% in the past year, while it has lost -6.21% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CX yields 0.64 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.76. For the next quarter, that number is 0.07. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.79% for this year and 19.21% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.17% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 60.47%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.51 billion CX shares are outstanding with a float of 1.51 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 16.66 million, which was 114.99999999999999 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Rogelio Zambrano Lozano as the firm’s Executive Chairman of the Board, Mr. Jaime Muguiro Domínguez serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.33401 of CX’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-12-31, CX reported revenue of $nan and operating income of $nan. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $nan and diluted EPS was $0.03.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CX since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With CX analysts setting a high price target of 12.0 and a low target of 5.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 7.9. Based on these targets, CX could surge 126.84% to reach the target high and fall by -5.48% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 49.34% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $16.7645 being high and $13.01455 being low. For CX, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $14.77923. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
