BlueLinx Holdings

BXC

Construction · Industrials

Price

$60.46

-1.55 (-2.50%)

Market Cap

$470.5M

Winston Score

Winston is worried

Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Share count falling — buybacks

−19.5% over 5y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 9.9M (2021) → 7.9M (2026)

BlueLinx Holdings is a wholesale distributor of building products in the United States. It buys lumber, panels, siding, roofing, and other construction materials from manufacturers and resells them to lumber yards, home improvement retailers, and professional contractors. The company does not make the products itself — it acts as the middleman between factories and the businesses that actually build or renovate homes.

BlueLinx earns money by selling those products at a markup, so its revenue rises and falls with construction activity and lumber prices. It operates across the U.S. through a network of distribution centers, and its scale and established supplier relationships give it some advantage over smaller regional distributors. However, the company's thin margins — around 15% gross and under 1% operating — leave little room for error, and its biggest risk is a slowdown in housing construction, which would reduce demand and put further pressure on already tight profitability.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

YoY Growth Rate

EPS data limited

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

17.2%ownership

↑ Rising

Insiders increasing their stake — aligned with shareholders

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$386M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

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Quality

Gross Margin

15.7%

Thin — 15.7% gross margin

Operating Margin

-0.5%

Losing money on operations — -0.5%

ROCE

-0.3%

Weak — -0.3% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+1.4%

Nearly flat sales (1.4% YoY)

EPS YoY

-111.4%

Earnings shrinking (-111.4% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency

0/8 quarters

Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

N/A

Data not available

FCF Margin

1.0%

Thin free cash flow (1.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.53

Conservative — low debt load (0.53)

Interest Cover

0.61x

Dangerous — barely covers interest (0.6x)

Interest coverage below 1. Their profits don't cover the interest bill.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

N/M

Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful

P/E vs Forward

N/A

not available

Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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