JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES PLC vs LOMA NEGRA COMPANIA INDUSTRIALARGENTINA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA, two Building Materials stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where JHX and LOMA diverge most: on debt / equity, JHX reads 0.71 and LOMA reads 0.00; on return on assets, JHX reads 0.8% and LOMA reads 10.9%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What JHX's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | JHX | LOMA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24.80 | $11.50 |
| Market cap | $13.5B | $6.7B |
| Sector | Building Materials | Building Materials |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | 130.5 | — |
| P/B | 2.11 | 8.46 |
| P/S | 2.80 | 5.91 |
| EV/EBITDA | 18.9 | 107.0 |
| Revenue growth | +8.0% | +94.1% |
| Gross margin | 35.8% | 16.5% |
| Operating margin | 9.3% | — |
| Net margin | 2.1% | 13.5% |
| Return on equity | 1.6% | 19.4% |
| Return on assets | 0.8% | 10.9% |
| Return on invested capital | 2.0% | — |
| FCF yield | 1.5% | 0.8% |
| Dividend yield | 1.5% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.71 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.58 | 1.02 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.82 | 6.96 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 3 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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