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$1.4M Insider Buy: $AMRZ Chairman and CEO Jan Jenisch bought 28,417 shares on May 15 for $1.4M at an average of $49.53 (purchase made in CHF at 39.05). Direct post-buy stake: 1,724,999 shares. Plus 512,000 indirect via spouse. Total beneficial: ~2.24M shares (~$111M). Jenisch is one of the most credentialed building materials operators in the world. He was CEO of Sika 2012-2017, where he led the company into the Swiss Market Index. He then served as CEO of Holcim 2017-2024 and Chairman 2023-2025, transforming it into an industry-leading-margin business. He led the Amrize spin-off from Holcim in June 2025 and remains Chairman and CEO. 12+ year track record running SMI-listed building materials companies. Amrize is the former North American operations of Holcim, spun off in June 2025. The company is the #1 cement producer in North America with 19,000 employees and ~$12B+ in expected 2026 revenue. Two segments: Building Materials (cement, aggregates, ready-mix concrete, asphalt - ~70% of revenue) and Building Envelope (roofing and exterior systems - ~30%). End-market mix: 51% commercial, 28% infrastructure, 21% residential. Dual-listed on NYSE and SIX Swiss Exchange. Q1 2026 (April 29) showed the bifurcated story: Building Materials revenue +12.9% with adj EBITDA +41.7% and margin +230bps - driven by accelerating commercial demand from data centers and energy projects, double-digit cement and aggregates volume growth, and the PB Materials acquisition (West Texas aggregates leader, closed February 18). The Building Envelope (roofing) segment was the drag - revenue -9.8%, adj EBITDA -37.1% on soft roofing demand. Stock dropped 5% on the print. Management reaffirmed 2026 guidance (revenue +4-6%, adj EBITDA +8-11%), announced a $1B buyback to begin post-Q1, declared a first quarterly dividend of $0.11 plus a special $0.44 dividend, and pointed to roofing volume recovery in H2 2026 as commercial projects that started in 2025 convert to envelope work. ~50% of IIJA infrastructure funding still to be deployed, commercial construction accelerating into data center and energy buildout, conservative 1.7x net leverage. Jenisch is buying 2 weeks after the post-Q1 dip with his entire 12-year operating record at building materials companies behind him.
















Just doubled my $FTLF position, 31% Cash left













