Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.22M but it saw 2343530 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 34.65B USD, the company’s current market price of $262.33 came rising about 6.92 while comparing to the previous closing price of $245.35. 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 $247.775 while lowest mark touched by it was $263.95.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Vulcan Materials Co (VMC) gives us an average price of $240.99, while its current price level is -12.06% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 21.97% 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 $239.73 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $255.90. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.02% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.00%. 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 66.52 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.
Over the week, VMC’s stock price is moving 7.27% up while it is 12.44% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 1.98% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 0.42%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-29, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 2.66 while estimate for next year EPS is 8.54. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.16B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $8.02B and seeing the company making $8.83B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.13B 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 93.11% 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 38.27 while having a 26.72 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.84. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 4.27 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4.67. Its return on asset (ROA) is 5.65% on average.
