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Top 5 Companies in the Building Products Industry Offering Investors the Best Cash Flow (ROCK, USG, UFPI, AAON, AMWD)

Written on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 3:12am
By Chip Brian

Below are the top five companies in the Building Products industry as measured by the price to cash flow ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 18.7x based on a current price of $10.71 and a free cash flow per share of $0.57.
USG (NYSE:USG) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 23.6x based on a current price of $12.12 and a free cash flow per share of $0.51.
Universal Forest Products (NASDAQ:UFPI) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 28.8x based on a current price of $31.29 and a free cash flow per share of $1.09.
AAON (NASDAQ:AAON) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 46.5x based on a current price of $25.02 and a free cash flow per share of $0.54.
American Woodmark (NASDAQ:AMWD) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 146.2x based on a current price of $16.81 and a free cash flow per share of $0.12.
SmarTrend is bearish on shares of USG and our subscribers were alerted to Sell on May 06, 2010 at $20.59. The stock has fallen 41.1% since the alert was issued.

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Ticker(s): ROCK USG UFPI AAON AMWD

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