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Kristoffer Inton
EUR 98.48 For Business Accounts Only

U.S. Concrete Announces CFO Resignation and Auditor Change, but We Don’t See an Impact to FVE

On March 24, U.S. Concrete made two announcements, curiously released together, leading to a 9% decline in its share price. However, neither announcement will lead to a change in our $68 per share fair value estimate or no-moat rating. The ongoing handling of its accounting control issues may lead us to revisit our Standard stewardship rating, though.
First, the company announced that Ernst & Young would replace Grant Thornton as its independent auditor. For fiscal 2015 and 2016, Grant Thorn...
Underlying
U.S. Concrete Inc.

U.S. Concrete is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a producer of ready-mixed and as a supplier of aggregates. The company's products comprised of: ready-mixed concrete, which products consist of proportioned mixes it produces and delivers in an unhardened plastic state for placement and shaping into designed forms at the job site; aggregates products, which sells these aggregates for use in commercial, industrial and public works projects in the markets they serve; and other, which includes the company's building materials stores, hauling operations, aggregates distribution terminals, a recycled aggregates operation and concrete blocks.

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Morningstar
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Kristoffer Inton

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