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General Building Materials
Composite Value: 1002.3
Today's Change: +0.73%
S&P 500: +0.42%

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General Building Materials News

Armstrong Cabinets Rank Highest in Customer Satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates for Second Year
Thu 10:47 am ET (PR Newswire)
Armstrong Cabinet Products, a division of Armstrong World Industries, Inc., ranked highest overall among cabinet manufacturers in J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Cabinet Satisfaction Study for the second consecutive year.

•	Weak housing market hurts USG 2Q results - (AP)
•	Headwaters Incorporated Schedules Fiscal Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call - (Business Wire)

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Industry Top Performers

Intraday Price Performance	% Change	Market Cap
US LIME & MINERAL [USLM]	+7.34%	$85.9 M
AAON INC [AAON]	+4.53%	$220.3 M
LSB INDUSTRIES INC [LXU]	+4.26%	$88.3 M
ARMSTRONG WORLD INDU [AWI]	+4.05%	$0
NCI BLDG SYS INC [NCS]	+4.05%	$708.4 M

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Market Capitalization	% Change	Market Cap
FASTENAL CO [FAST]	+0.75%	$7.1 B
VULCAN MATERIALS HC [VMC]	+0.16%	$6.7 B
MDU RESOURCES GROUP [MDU]	+0.51%	$5.7 B
MARTIN MARIETTA MTRL [MLM]	-3.09%	$4.3 B
U S G CP [USG]	+0.76%	$2.7 B

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Industry Calendar

Upcoming Events
Date	Co	Event
07/29/08	HW	Headwaters Inc. Earnings Conference Call (Q3 2008)
07/30/08	OC	Owens Corning Earnings Conference Call (Q2 2008)
07/30/08	AWI	Armstrong World Industries Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Release

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Date	Co	Event
07/22/08	USG	U S G CP upside earnings surprise (+25.00%)
07/21/08	RPM	RPM INTL INC upside earnings surprise (+8.70%)
07/18/08	ACO	AMCOL INTL CP upside earnings surprise (+13.73%)

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Industry Statistics

Market Capitalization:	39B
Price / Earnings:	20.5
Price / Book:	4.4
Net Profit Margin (mrq):	5.0%
Price To Free Cash Flow (mrq):	-37.0
Return on Equity:	9.3%
Total Debt / Equity:	0.8
Dividend Yield:	1.7%

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