Carib Cement is reporting one of their BEST quarterly results EVER! 🙌🚀
• Profit of J$1.5 Billion in 3 months
• More than 3 times the amount they made in Jan to Mar last year 😲
• Sales up 31%. Company almost hit $6 Billion in sales for the quarter.. a BIG achievement
To be seeing such strong top-line growth.. Worst in these times is impressive
Company says they are
• seeing increased sales volumes👌
• managing their costs👏
• Improving their efficiencies, plus
• Benefiting from investments made over the last few years
Company also says...
• Local demand for cement remains STRONG!🧱
• They expect continued optimism in the construction sector🚧👷
• There are many govt infrastructure projects
• Many private development projects
• Vaccine programme will lead to reopening
Read more to see WHY, and to see what's HOT 🔥 right now🧵
Big Picture 👉 The overall JSE has seen a STRONG rebound and is now up 3% YTD, a big deal for the market, as it has struggled to break positive for most of the year 🙌
What happened?
There has been continued momentum over the last few days and weeks
• The overall market is up 9 days straight... Its most consistent run in a while🔥
• This was also a BIG week... with the market up 1.44%... almost twice its best weekly performance since Feb
• This is also the biggest MONTH since a slight recovery started in February