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QXO adds $1.8 billion in firepower amid building products consolidation
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on January 12, 2026
QXO Secures $1.8 Billion Financing to Fuel Building Products Growth
Overview of QXO's Recent Financing and Market Strategy
By Anshuman Tripathy
Details of the Funding Round
Jan 12 (Reuters) - Billionaire Brad Jacobs' QXO said it has secured an additional $1.8 billion in financing, led by Apollo Global Management and Singapore's Temasek, as the building products supplier pursues buyouts amid consolidation in the industry.
Industry Trends in Building Products
The latest funding, announced on Monday, takes the total investment in the Greenwich, Connecticut-based company to $3 billion, after it raised $1.2 billion last week. Its shares rose about 4% in morning trading.
Future Acquisition Plans
Other investors included PGIM, the asset management business of Prudential Financial, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Iconiq, a source familiar with the investment matter told Reuters. QXO declined to comment.
The company said it structured the funding as a previously disclosed series of convertible perpetual preferred stock and plans to use the proceeds to support future acquisitions.
Mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. building-products industry has picked up pace as companies seek scale and localize supply chains to mitigate tariffs, with demand buoyed by new housing construction, repairs and renovations.
QXO, a newcomer to the building products sector, completed an $11 billion acquisition of Beacon Roofing Supply last year. It also made a bid for GMS and threatened a hostile takeover, but ultimately lost out to home improvement chain Home Depot.
Peers have also struck large deals.
Last year, Commercial Metals said it would acquire concrete supplier Foley Products for $1.84 billion, while roofing-material firm TopBuild bought rival SPI for $1 billion in cash.
Jacobs, who has built multibillion-dollar companies in logistics, waste management and equipment rentals, positioned QXO to pursue more deals in the fragmented sector, targeting $50 billion in annual revenue within a decade.
He stepped down as chairman from XPO and GXO Logistics in December last year.
(Reporting by Anshuman Tripathy in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid and Shilpi Majumdar)
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