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Eagle Materials, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of gypsum wallboard and cement primarily in the United States. Its products include gypsum wallboard, portland cement, recycled paperboard, and concrete and aggregates. The company's gypsum wallboard operations include mining and extraction of gypsum from the ground; conversion of gypsum into plaster; process of plaster with various chemicals and water to produce a mixture used to harden the recycled paperboard; and sale of gypsum sheets in appropriate lengths, dried, and bundled form. It manufactures and sells cement for the construction sector. The company's recycled paperboard operations comprise manufacture of paper products from recycled paper fiber. Its paper products include the facing and backside paper used in the manufacture of gypsum wallboard; other recycled paperboard grades used by manufacturers of consumer packaging; and industrial paperboard products, such as angle board, tube, and core board produced for diversity and mill optimization. The company's concrete operations involves in the mixing of cement, sand, gravel, or crushed stone and water to form concrete that is sold to construction contractors. Its construction aggregates consists of the mining, extraction, production, and sale of crushed stone, sand, gravel, and lightweight aggregates, such as expanded clays and shales. The company sells its products to build and renovate residential, commercial, and industrial structures, as well as to build and improve the roads and bridges. As of March 31, 2006, the company operated four gypsum wallboard plants, four cement plants, one gypsum paperboard plant, eight concrete batching plants, and two aggregates facilities. Eagle Materials, formerly Centex Construction Products, Inc., was founded in 1963 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Eagle Materials Inc. (NYSE:EXP) operates independently of Centex Corporation as of January 31, 2004.

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Key Statistics

Closing Price	34.20
Volume	732295
Volume Avg	616067
52 Week High	35.43
52 Week Low	15.36
PE	N/A
PE (group average)	38
EPS Year	-0.02
EPS change Q/Q	1000%
EPS change Q/Q Yr ago	1000%
EPS change Q/Q next Q est	1000%
EPS change Y/Y	94.12%
REV change Q/Q	-8.18%
REV change Q/Q Yr ago	-2.05%
EPS next Q est	0.35
EPS next Y est	1.30
Divident Annual	0.40
Dividend Yield	1.17%