Selling for a ratio of six times enterprise value (market cap plus long-term debt) to EBITDA cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), Cemex looks cheap.

FORBES: One ratio does not fit all

Hctor Medina, Cemex executive vice president of planning and finance, says Cemex's ratio of debt to cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) currently stands at 3.55 and should soon fall to 3.0.

FORBES: Cement meets the cyberworld

Scaglia predicts the company will break even on a cash flow basis (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization EBITDA) by 2003.

FORBES: A fiber niche is nice