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U.S. Concrete makes and sells ready-mixed concrete and the rocks and sand that go into it.
U.S. Concrete is a building-materials company, and it makes money in two main ways. The bigger piece is ready-mixed concrete: the company mixes cement, water, sand, and crushed rock into the wet concrete that gets poured into foundations, floors, roads, and bridges. Its customers are construction contractors, homebuilders, and big infrastructure projects. The second piece is aggregates — basically the sand, gravel, and crushed stone that go into that concrete. Owning the rock quarries matters a lot, because the materials are heavy and expensive to truck far, so nearby reserves give the company a cost advantage.
Think of it as a bakery that also owns its own flour mill. The concrete is the fresh product that must be delivered fast before it hardens, and the aggregates are the raw ingredients it can supply itself. That is why this business is local: a ready-mix plant can only serve customers within roughly an hour's drive, because concrete starts setting as soon as it is mixed. So the company grew by buying up regional concrete and aggregate producers across the United States rather than by building one giant national brand.
The company was based in Euless, Texas, and its shares traded on NASDAQ. Its fortunes rise and fall with local construction activity — highways, airports, apartments, and single-family homes — and with the cost of cement and fuel for its trucks. A major turning point came when Vulcan Materials, one of the largest U.S. aggregates producers, agreed to buy U.S. Concrete for about $1.3 billion, a deal announced in 2021, folding the company into a much bigger materials supplier. Before that, it was a steady acquirer of smaller rivals and paid little attention to dividends, choosing instead to reinvest in quarries and plants.
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