Eagle Materials

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Eagle Materials Inc. is a producer of building materials based in Dallas, Texas. The company produces cement, concrete, construction aggregate, gypsum, wallboard, paperboard, and sand for hydraulic fracturing.The company operates 7 cement plants, 1 slag grinding facility, 17 cement distribution terminals, five gypsum wallboard plants, 3 frac sand wet processing facilities, 3 frac sand drying facilities, and 6 frac sand trans-load locations.

Eagle Materials has been a target of short sellers for a while. The current short interest of 6.73% is roughly at the average of the last 12 months (5.46%).