Cemex S.A.B. De C.V. ADR (NYSE: CX): Think Like A Lender, Not An Investor

Cemex S.A.B. De C.V. ADR (NYSE:CX) currently has a daily average trading volume of 10.33M but it saw 11348609 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 8.60B USD, the company’s current market price of $5.69 came falling about -0.18 while comparing to the previous closing price of $5.70. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $9.27 and as low as $5.00. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $5.64 while lowest mark touched by it was $5.77.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Cemex S.A.B. De C.V. ADR (CX) gives us an average price of $5.97, while its current price level is -38.59% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 13.80% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $6.15 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $6.02. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.64% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 3.43%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 40.30 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

RBC Capital Mkts downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Underperform” from “Sector Perform” on December 11, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $6-$5. JP Morgan also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $7 and $6.

Over the week, CX’s stock price is moving -5.01% down while it is -4.05% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 0.89% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -37.27%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-05, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.68. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $4.28B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $16.4B and seeing the company making $17.43B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $3.85B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Cemex S.A.B. De C.V. ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.51B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 33.49% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.10% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.39%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 8.90 while having a 7.18 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.43. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.81 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.52. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.29% on average.