Company: QXO-PB
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-052059
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Company: QXO, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form: 424B5
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 Building Products’ scale and leading position in the roofing and complementary Building Products Distribution market makes it the ideal initial acquisition for QXO’s value creation playbook. Roofing is a highly attractive vertical, as the vast majority of the revenues are derived from non-discretionary R&R activities, reducing exposure to economic cycles. In addition, QXO Building Products’ supplier and customer base is predominantly U.S.-based, reducing the impact of tariffs and other geopolitical uncertainties. We intend to enhance organizational design, optimize the supply chain and drive commercial excellence, deploying technology across these initiatives. Our strategy is aimed at increasing customer satisfaction, growing revenue in excess of the industry rate, significantly expanding operating margin with a goal over time of doubling the EBITDA at QXO Building Products, as well as pursuing additional transformational M&A.

#### Our Industry

#### Building Products Distribution
Building Products Distribution is a large industry, with approximately $800 billion in annual revenue in 2024, split roughly equally between North America and Western Europe. The industry is characterized by a mix of national, multi-regional and local distributors, with a fragmented customer base. Building Products Distribution benefits from powerful growth tailwinds. In the United States, we believe the supply of homes is approximately four million units short of demand. There are also strong tailwinds for residential R&R activity. The average age of an existing single-family home in the United States is over 40 years, which creates

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ongoing demand for repairs. In the non-residential space, the average structure is even older at over 50 years, requiring greater levels of ongoing maintenance and refurbishment. Further, there is good visibility into infrastructure spending across North America and Europe. In North America alone, an additional $2 trillion of spending is expected to be required over the next two decades to keep the infrastructure safe.

Building Products Distribution is an industry where scale offers key advantages. Larger distributors have greater purchasing power, which allows them to pass through higher cost savings to customers. Larger distributors also have the resources to invest in differentiating technology. These factors drive a virtuous cycle of market share gains and fixed cost leverage. At the same time, the Building Products Distribution industry is highly fragmented, with over 7,000 distributors in North America and approximately 13,000 in Europe. This fragmentation presents an attractive opportunity for consolidation in the industry.

#### North American Roofing and Complementary Products
Specialty distributors of roofing and complementary building products