OVERVIEW

          Eagle Materials Inc. (the “Company” or “EXP” which may be referred to as “we” or “us”) is a manufacturer of basic building materials including gypsum wallboard, cement, gypsum and non-gypsum paperboard and concrete and aggregates. We were founded in 1963 as a building materials subsidiary of Centex Corporation (“Centex”) and we operated as a public company under the name Centex Construction Products, Inc. from April 1994 to January 30, 2004 when Centex completed a tax free distribution of its shares to its shareholders (the...