Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.20M but it saw 765221 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 31.78B USD, the company’s current market price of $244.54 came rising about 1.65 while comparing to the previous closing price of $240.57. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $298.31 and as low as $215.08. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $243.585 while lowest mark touched by it was $249.954.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Vulcan Materials Co (VMC) gives us an average price of $237.42, while its current price level is -18.02% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 13.70% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $241.62 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $255.85. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.59% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.95%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 54.87 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
UBS downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Buy” on April 07, 2025 while assigning a price target of $258. JP Morgan also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $290 and $285.
Year-to-date it is -4.93% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -2.98%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-17, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.77 while estimate for next year EPS is 8.37. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.24B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $8.26B and seeing the company making $8.85B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.65B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Vulcan Materials Co’s total number of outstanding shares is 132.10M with 0.19% of that held by the insiders while 93.21% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 6.73% and return on equity (ROE) at 11.79%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 35.67 while having a 25.12 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.81. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.98 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4.28. Its return on asset (ROA) is 5.65% on average.
