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Cementos Argos 2024 Corporate Presentation
- 8 cement plants were founded in Colombia
- In the 1970s, cement exports to the United States began.
- Consolidated presence in the Caribbean and Central America through joint ventures, exports and trading.
- Acquisition of ready-mix and cement assets in the US
- Consolidated presence in the US with the acquisition of 4 integrated cement plants, 3 grinding mills, more than 280 ready-mixplants, and 21 ports and terminals.
- US EBITDA grows +56% vs. 2016
- Strategic divestitures of ready-mixclusters
- Concentration of ready-mix business in urban areas and close to own cement plants
- U.S. assets are combined with Summit Materials, creating the fourth-largest cement company and sixth-largestaggregates company by capacity in the U.S.
Cementos Argos 2024 Corporate Presentation
We are
in Colombia, Central
America and the Caribbean.
We are the
with a 31%
stake in the company.
Value-generating businesses leveraged on
Cementos Argos 2024 Corporate Presentation
Cementos Argos is a company with exposure to the U.S. building materials industry through its 31% stake in Summit Materials and is an operator of high-performance building materials assets in LATAM, positioned to supply high-growth markets.
7,800 mm USD
Market Cap
990m USD
Guidance EBITDA 2024
31% stake | 4to U.S. cement producer |
6to U.S Aggregates producer |
1,230 mm USD | 295 mm USD |
REVENUES LTM 1Q24* | EBITDA LTM 1Q24 |
41.2% | Colombia | 37.5% | |
58.8% | 62.5% | ||
CCA | |||
7 integrated cement plants
7 cement grinding mills
14.4 MTPA of cement capacity 46 Concrete Plants
5 Cementos Argos S.A. has a presence in Venezuela through its subsidiary Corporación de Cemento Andino C.A., which is currently involved in a judicial process for the expropriation by Venezuelan trade of its plant located in the state of Trujillo in Venezuela.
Cementos Argos 2024 Corporate Presentation
1 | construction | |
materials market | ||
2 | High-performance | |
in LATAM in the materials industry |
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in high-
potential complementary businesses
for future growth
5 | Focus on transferring value to |
shareholders - |
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Why invest in Cementos Argos?
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, through its 31% stake in Summit Materials, captures the opportunities of the world's most attractive building materials market in an optimal and far-reaching way.
30 | 11.6 | 5.5 | 990 m | >30% |
Infrastructure Investment
and Jobs Act (IIJA)
Inflation reduction Act (IRA)
Investments of U$1.2 tn for transportation and infrastructure
U$242 billion in investments in clean energy economies
States | MTPA | MSTPA | EBITDA | Mgn EBITDA |
Cement | Aggregates | Guidance 2024 | Adjusted | |
Elevate Summit Goal |
Unique positioning
through
participation in the Summit platform to capture market opportunitiesfor the country's housing and infrastructure deficit.
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Historical underbuilding of the U.S. housing market.
Housing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
units | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accumulated overbuilding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accumulated under-construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Housing starts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Cumulative infrastructure investment needs in the U.S.
6,100 | |||
5,100 | 2,588 | ||
4,100 | |||
3,100 | 5,937 | ||
2,100 | 3,350 | ||
1,100 | |||
100 | |||
USD Mill | Financed gap | Gap | Total needs |
Why invest in Cementos Argos?
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8.5 | ✓ Multi-planta interconnected with the country's most efficient logistics network | |||||||
6 | 40 | 1 | 5 | ✓ +9,000 active customers | ||||
Cement | Concrete | Sea port | Aggregates | MTPA Cement | ✓ | 90% of the national territory covered | ||
plants | plants | plants | Capacity | ✓ | +7,000 direct hardware stores | |||
Annual
domestic
cement demand
13
M Ton
- Formal housing
40% ✓ Infrastructure BULK ✓ Driven by economic
cycles
- Retail sales
60% ✓ Driven by private consumption
BAGS
- Resilient to weak economic cycles
We are the
largest
integrated
producer, with
national
coverage and a
strong
competitive advantageto capture growth in infrastructure and housing.
Billions of pesos | |||||||||||||||
$ 2,958 | |||||||||||||||
$ 2,708 | |||||||||||||||
$ 2,346 | $ 2,422 | ||||||||||||||
$ 2,261 | 25.2% | ||||||||||||||
22.3% | |||||||||||||||
22.2% | |||||||||||||||
21.7% | |||||||||||||||
19.2% | |||||||||||||||
$ 605 | $ 744 | ||||||||||||||
$ 434 | $ 522 | $ 524 | |||||||||||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||||||
Ingresos | EBITDA | Margen | |||||||||||||
Why invest in Cementos Argos?
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1 7
Cement Grinding
plantstations
6 | 10 |
Concrete | Sea ports |
plants |
✓ Market leaders in Honduras and Panama
1 ✓ Recent incursion into Guatemala, interconnected with
Aggregates Honduras plant
✓ Panama maritime terminal for exports and imports
Honduras
Of regional
EBITDA
- Country's demand : 2.4 million tons
- Market: 80% informal, 20% formal
- Integrated plant to supply the
local market +
9Guatemala
República
Dominicana
Of regional
EBITDA
- Country's demand: 5.4 million tons
- Cement consumption derived from tourism, mining and other services and products associated with the country's free trade zones.
Panamá
Of regional
EBITDA
- Country's demand: 1.2 million tons
- Market: 50/50 between formal and informal
- Diversified portfolio: aggregates, ready mixes
Million dollars | ||||||||||||||
27.8% | ||||||||||||||
27.5% | ||||||||||||||
26.1% | ||||||||||||||
22.1% | ||||||||||||||
$ 535 | $ 525 | 20.8% | ||||||||||||
$ 508 | ||||||||||||||
$ 447 | $ 514 | |||||||||||||
$ 147 | $ 117 | $ 146 | $ 112 | $ 107 | ||||||||||
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||||||
Ingresos | EBITDA | Mg EBITDA | ||||||||||||
Why invest in Cementos Argos?
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Largest calcined clay plant in the
Americas
A 450,000 TPA
B Up to -50%
C ~30% of
D -20%
Argos USA, now part of Summit Materials, was invited by the DOE to negotiate for a grant to develop 4 calcined clay facilities in the USA.
We have solutions at the forefront of the
digital revolution.
Combining data science + artificial intelligence to
optimize operational performance
Saved during | Estimated |
2023 | savings 2024 |
It allows to improve indicators such as:
- Clinker / Cement Factor
- Caloric consumption
- CO2 emissions
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