In last trading session, Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) saw 0.71 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.85. Company’s recent per share price level of $275.51 trading at $4.44 or 1.64% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $36.40B. That closing price of VMC’s stock is at a discount of -8.28% from its 52-week high price of $298.31 and is indicating a premium of 21.93% from its 52-week low price of $215.08. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.88 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.28 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Vulcan Materials Co (VMC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.82. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 14 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 1 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 5 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 8 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 1.64%, in the last five days VMC remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 05/12/25 when the stock touched $275.51 price level, adding 0.95% to its value on the day. Vulcan Materials Co’s shares saw a change of 7.11% in year-to-date performance and have moved 2.18% in past 5-day. Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) showed a performance of 14.53% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 3.32 million shares which calculate 2.41 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 287 to the stock, which implies a rise of 4.0% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 269 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 315. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 2.36% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 2.36% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 8.15% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 13.93% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 14.64%.
VMC Dividends
Vulcan Materials Co is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-29 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 0.68%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.87 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 0.83%.
Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.18% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 93.53 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 93.70%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 93.53% institutions for Vulcan Materials Co that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at VMC for having 16.18 million shares of worth $4.02 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 12.2189 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 10.04 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.5807 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $2.5 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Principal Funds, Inc-MidCap Fund (f/k/a MidCap Blend Fund) are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 4.13 shares of worth $1.14 billion or 3.13% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 4.06 shares on Jan 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $1.12 billion in the company or a holder of 3.08% of company’s stock.
