In last trading session, Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) saw 0.8 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.83. Company’s recent per share price level of $266.6 trading at $3.59 or 1.36% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $35.22B. That closing price of VMC’s stock is at a discount of -11.89% from its 52-week high price of $298.31 and is indicating a premium of 19.32% 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 0.83 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.00 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 1.72. 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. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 2.62 in the current quarter.
Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) trade information
Vulcan Materials Co’s shares saw a change of 1.44% in year-to-date performance and have moved -0.89% in past 5-day. Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) showed a performance of 2.92% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 3.18 million shares which calculate 3.08 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 315 to the stock, which implies a rise of 15.37% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 287 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 318. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -7.65% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -7.65% for stock’s current value.
Vulcan Materials Co (VMC) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 10.90% from the last financial year’s standing.
13 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 2.23B for the same. And 14 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 2.28B in the next quarter. Company posted 2.01B and 2B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
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 12.58% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 14.77%.
VMC Dividends
Vulcan Materials Co is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-30 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 0.71%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.90 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 0.82%.
Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.18% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 94.02 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 94.19%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 94.02% 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, Principal Funds, Inc-MidCap Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 4.41 shares of worth $1.18 billion or 3.34% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 4.17 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $1.11 billion in the company or a holder of 3.16% of company’s stock.
