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Grant Slade, CFA
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Luke-Warm U.S. Housing Starts May Soften Hardie’s 4Q 2019 but Shares Remain Attractive

We previously flagged the need for strong U.S. housing starts in narrow-moat James Hardie’s fourth-quarter fiscal 2019. And while January was a robust showing indeed, housing starts underwhelmed in February. The required 930,000 seasonally adjusted annualised rate, or SAAR, of single-family starts in Hardie’s fourth quarter has clearly proven elusive and a slight miss of our full-year fiscal 2019 EBIT forecast of USD 442 million is therefore possible. Should March single-family housing starts ma...
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James Hardie Industries PLC Chess Units of Foreign Securities

James Hardie Industries is engaged in the manufacturing and selling of fiber cement products and systems for internal and external building construction applications in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Europe. Co.'s fiber cement products are used in a number of markets, including new residential construction, manufactured housing, repair and remodeling and a variety of commercial and industrial applications. Co. manufactures numerous types of fiber cement products with a variety of patterned profiles and surface finishes for a range of applications, including external siding and soffit lining, internal linings, facades, and floor and tile underlayments.

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Morningstar
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Grant Slade, CFA

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