Report
Kristoffer Inton
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Summit's growth strategy is heavily dependent on finding attractive assets at good prices.

Over the past two years, U.S. aggregates and concrete stocks have rallied about 60%, far outpacing the S&P 500's 15% return and pricing in significant future profit growth. Industry leaders Martin Marietta and Vulcan Materials, for example, trade at 15 and 16 times estimated 2017 EBITDA, respectively, substantially higher than both historical and midcycle levels. As a result, value-conscious investors are questioning whether the runup has been justified and whether the market is appropriatel...
Underlying
Summit Materials Inc. Class A

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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Morningstar
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Kristoffer Inton

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