Summit must avoid paying high prices for its acquisitions amid robust construction activity.
Following the election of Donald J. Trump as America's next president, U.S. aggregates and concrete companies have rallied sharply, gaining roughly 15% to 20% in the two days since the election. On one hand, we think this makes sense. Unlike globally fungible commodities like steel or copper, cement, aggregates, and concrete are almost entirely consumed near their production sites given low value-to-weight ratios. As a result, increases in infrastructure spending definitely benefit the financial...Summit Materials is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a construction materials company. The company produces and sells aggregates, cement, ready-mix concrete, asphalt paving mix and concrete products and owns and operates quarries, sand and gravel pits, cement plants, cement distribution terminals, ready-mix concrete plants, asphalt plants and landfill sites. The company is engaged in paving and related services. The company has operations in various states across the United States and in British Columbia, Canada. The company operates a municipal waste landfill in its East segment, and has construction and demolition debris landfills and liquid asphalt terminal operations in its West and East segments.
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