CEMENTOS PACASMAYO SAA vs CRH public limited company, two Building Materials stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
CRH is the giant of building materials at $75.1B, roughly fifteen times the size of Cementos Pacasmayo's $5.1B, and the two earn almost the same rate on equity, 15.22% for CRH against 16.39% for the Peruvian cement maker. Net margins nearly match too, 9.65% and 10.05%. The separation is price and cash. Pacasmayo trades at 97.74 times earnings, a figure inflated by a weak profit year, while CRH sits at a plain 20.83 times. CRH also converts far more cash, a 4% free-cash yield against 1.33%, and pays a 1.32% dividend. Pacasmayo runs no net debt, while CRH carries some at 0.87 debt-to-equity.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CPAC | CRH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $11.45 | $104.68 |
| Market cap | $4.9B | $70.0B |
| Sector | Building Materials | Building Materials |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +16.4% |
| P/E | 93.3 | 19.4 |
| P/B | 15.15 | 2.90 |
| P/S | 9.29 | 1.84 |
| EV/EBITDA | 34.9 | 14.7 |
| Revenue growth | +13.1% | +6.6% |
| Gross margin | 36.8% | 27.8% |
| Operating margin | 19.8% | -0.5% |
| Net margin | 10.1% | 9.7% |
| Return on equity | 16.4% | 15.2% |
| Return on assets | 6.3% | 6.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 21.6% | 9.4% |
| FCF yield | 1.4% | 4.3% |
| Dividend yield | — | 1.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.87 |
| Current ratio | 1.30 | 1.59 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.89 | 2.62 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 2 / 9 |
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