Eagle Materials

Eagle Materials is perched near the top of the building materials business. The company produces and distributes gypsum wallboard and cement (each accounting for about 40% of revenues). Eagle Materials also produces ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and recycled paperboard. Its products are sold to residential, commercial, and industrial construction customers throughout the US. The company operates about 20 plants and manufacturing facilities. It also has about 140 railcars for shipping its wallboard products to customers across the country. Eagle Materials is a spinoff of homebuilder Centex Corporation, which founded the company in 1963. It became a separate entity in 2004.