FAQs

CEMEX's shares trade on the Mexican Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CEMEXCPO. CEMEX's shares also trade on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of ADSs under the ticker symbol CX.

Our capital stock consists of series A shares and series B shares. Each of our "Certificado de Participación Ordinario" (CPO) represents two series A shares and one series B share. A CPO is the type of equity security that CEMEX trades on the Mexican Stock Exchange.

American Depositary Shares (ADSs) are a means for non-U.S.-based corporations to list their ordinary equity on an American stock exchange. Denominated in US dollars, they confer full rights of ownership to the corporation’s underlying shares, which are held on deposit by a custodian bank in the company’s home country or territory.

One CEMEX ADS traded on the NYSE represents ten CEMEX CPOs.

Under the terms of the CPO trust agreement, non-Mexican holders of CPOs and ADSs have no voting rights with respect to the A shares underlying those CPOs and ADSs. All ADSs are deemed to be held by non-Mexican nationals. At every shareholders' meeting, the A shares held in the CPO trust are voted in accordance with the vote cast by holders of the majority of A shares held by Mexican nationals and B shares voted at that meeting of shareholders.

CEMEX has a direct stock purchase plan (DSPP). Please click on the following link for information.

As of March 31, 2012, CEMEX had approximately 10,871 million CPOs outstanding, representing approximately 1,087.1 million ADSs.

Please click here to learn more about our dividend program.

CEMEX publishes quarterly and annual reports in (on) the Mexican stock exchange, which might be considered equivalent to the United States' 10Qs and 10Ks, and as a non-US company, CEMEX files a 20F report with the Securities and Exchange Commission every year. The form 20F, among other disclosures, presents stockholders' equity and net income reconciled to U.S. GAAP. As a company committed to transparency, CEMEX makes every effort to adhere to the standard practices and disclosure policies of the international capital markets. You can find our quarterly releases, annual reports, and 20Fs in our reports page.

CEMEX reports financial results under Mexican Financial Reporting Standards (MFRS), which is the accounting standard in our quarterly and annual reports. We also file a 20F report on an annual basis which, until December 31, 2010, presented stockholders' equity and net income reconciled to U.S. GAAP. Beginning in 2011, CEMEX will adopt IFRS in its 20F report; therefore, based on SEC rules, earnings will no longer be reconciled to U.S. GAAP.

CEMEX’s official accounting currency is the Mexican peso. However, both our quarterly and annual reports offer a convenience translation of our financial statements to U.S. dollars.

As of March 31, 2012, our net debt plus perpetual notes, which equals total debt plus perpetual notes minus cash and cash equivalents, was US$17,158 million. You can find more information about our debt in our Debt Information section.

Within the debt information section you can find information regarding CEMEX credit ratings.

To better align our executives' interests with those of our stockholders, we began offering executives a new stock-ownership program in 2005. As of March 31, 2012, our executives held 30,900,364 restricted CPOs representing 0.3% of our total CPOs outstanding.

CEMEX's markets and their respective 2011 percentage of sales are Mexico (24%), the United States (17%), Northern Europe (32%), Mediterranean (12%), South / Central America and Caribbean (12%), and Asia (3%).

Please click here for the list of equity analysts that provide coverage of CEMEX.

Please click here for the list of fixed income analysts that provide coverage of CEMEX.

Our headquarters are located in Monterrey, Mexico. The address is Av. Ricardo Margáin #325, Col. Valle del Campestre, San Pedro Garza García, N.L., Mexico 66265. For other office locations around the world please click here.

As of March 31, 2012, CEMEX had 44,684 employees worldwide.

Environmental consciousness is part of our corporate culture. Please click here for in-depth information on our environmental culture.