CEMENTOS PACASMAYO SAA vs JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES PLC, two Building Materials stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Both carry eye-catching earnings multiples, and both for reasons of weak current profit rather than heady expectations. James Hardie, the fiber-cement siding maker at $14.5B, trades at 140.11 times earnings because its earnings are pinched right now, with equity return down to 1.62% and a net margin of just 2.15%. Cementos Pacasmayo, the $5.1B Peruvian cement maker, sits at 97.74 times for the same kind of reason, though it earns far more underneath, 16.39% on equity and a 10.05% net margin. Pacasmayo runs no net debt while Hardie carries some at 0.71 debt-to-equity. Hardie pays a 1.43% dividend, while Pacasmayo's free-cash yield is a thin 1.33%.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CPAC | JHX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $11.45 | $24.80 |
| Market cap | $4.9B | $13.5B |
| Sector | Building Materials | Building Materials |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| P/E | 93.3 | 130.5 |
| P/B | 15.15 | 2.11 |
| P/S | 9.29 | 2.80 |
| EV/EBITDA | 34.9 | 18.9 |
| Revenue growth | +13.1% | +8.0% |
| Gross margin | 36.8% | 35.8% |
| Operating margin | 19.8% | 9.3% |
| Net margin | 10.1% | 2.1% |
| Return on equity | 16.4% | 1.6% |
| Return on assets | 6.3% | 0.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 21.6% | 2.0% |
| FCF yield | 1.4% | 1.5% |
| Dividend yield | — | 1.5% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.71 |
| Current ratio | 1.30 | 1.58 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.89 | 1.82 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 3 / 9 |
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