Materials Financial Models
A small change in selling price can have a large effect on profit when mines, mills, and quarries carry substantial fixed costs. Transport also limits how far heavy materials can travel economically. Global commodity prices and local construction demand therefore affect different producers in different ways.
CRH
CRH plc is a leading global provider of building materials solutions, manufacturing and distributing aggregates, cement, readymixed concrete, asphalt, and complex building products.
Nucor
Nucor Corporation is the largest steel producer and recycler in North America.
Freeport-McMoRan
Freeport-McMoRan is a leading international mining company operating large, long-lived, geographically diverse assets with significant proven and probable mineral reserves of copper, gold, and molybdenum.
Steel Dynamics
Steel Dynamics is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metal recyclers in the United States, operating electric arc furnace mini-mills that use recycled ferrous scrap to produce flat-rolled, long, coated, and aluminum products alongside metals recycling and steel fabrication operations.
Newmont
Newmont Corporation is the world's leading gold company and a significant producer of copper, silver, zinc, and lead.
Vulcan Materials
Vulcan Materials Company is the largest producer of construction aggregates (primarily crushed stone, sand, and gravel) in the United States.
Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser is one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, operating as a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).
Martin Marietta Materials
Martin Marietta Materials (MLM) is a leading natural resource-based building materials company in the United States, supplying aggregates, cement, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt, and magnesia-based chemicals.
