🏗️ Stock Check:
$50.49 ↓ -0.89 (-1.73%)
As of Aug-18-2025 4:10 PM ET

🚀 The Big Trigger: Insider Shopping Spree

When your CEO and CFO go on a multi-million-dollar shopping spree… for their own stock… you pay attention.

• 👷♂️ CEO Jan Philipp Jenisch: scooped up 1.1 million shares across two big trades ($51M+). That’s not pocket change.

• 🧮 CFO Ian Johnston: doubled down (+153%) and is now sitting on 17,344 shares.

• 📦 Chief Supply Chain, CTO, Chief People, and even the General Counsel joined in too.

👉 Translation: The insiders aren’t just dipping a toe in, they’re cannonballing into the Amrize pool.

🏦 Who Else Owns the Cement Mixer?

Institutions are circling the crane:

• Vanguard: 3.86%

• UBS: 2.79%

• Norges Bank: 2.43%

• Dodge & Cox: 2.25%

🧱 Institutions hold about 36.6% of shares — plenty of room to build up.

🔍 For Amrize (AMRZ)'s Institutional Ownership breakdown, see here. 

🏢 The Business

Amrize = Holcim’s spin-off baby. Born June 2025. Now strutting on the NYSE (ticker: AMRZ).

• 1,000+ sites across U.S. & Canada

• 19,000 employees (aka “teammates with hard hats”)

• Products: Cement, aggregates, roofing, precast concrete… basically everything your house, office, or highway stands on.

📍 HQ: Zug, Switzerland (because every good materials giant needs a tax-efficient view of the Alps).

💰 The Numbers (Q2 2025)

• Revenue: $3.22B (flat-ish vs last year)

• Net Income: $428M (down 9.5% YoY)

• EBITDA Margin: 29.4% (solid, if slightly squishy)

• Net Leverage Ratio: 1.8x (aiming for 1.5x = investment grade flex 💪)

⚒️ Launched ASPIRE Program → promises $250M+ in synergies by 2028. (Corporate speak for: “We’ll cut costs, integrate, and pretend it’s effortless.”)

👉 Want the full picture? Dive into Amrize (AMRZ)'s financials here.

🏗️ Growth Plays

• Acquired Langley Concrete Group (Canada)

• Quarry in Oklahoma (serving Dallas–Fort Worth boom)

• Expanding cement capacity in Missouri & Quebec

• Shingle factory in Indiana coming 2026 (because roofs matter too)

📈 Long-term drivers:

• Infrastructure modernization

• Onshoring of advanced manufacturing

• Data center boom

• Bridging the housing gap

⚠️ Risks in the Mix

• 🏦 Higher interest rates = fewer homes, slower builds

• 🌧️ Inclement weather (concrete doesn’t like rain)

• 🔄 Integration risks with acquisitions

• 📉 Profit dip: net income shrinking QoQ

• 💸 Valuation isn’t cheap:

  • Trailing P/E: ~21

  • Forward P/E: ~20

  • PEG Ratio: 1.79

👉 Not crazy overpriced, but definitely not a clearance sale either.

🧱 Bottom Line

Why bulls like it:

• Insider buying = strong vote of confidence

• Investment-grade balance sheet

• Long-term drivers (infrastructure, housing, data centers)

• Margins sturdy like… well, cement

Why bears growl:

• Growth slower than a cement truck in traffic

• Profit trend bending down

• Not cheap in a frothy stock market

💡💡💡 Curious about another deep oil exploration play?
Check our takes on UnitedHealth Group or even Oscar Health.

Verdict:
Interesting play. Worth a watchlist spot. Best strategy? Start small and accumulate on dips, just like cement layers: one slab at a time.

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