Vulcan Materials – Key Insights

By Harris Dyer • Saturday, August 24 15:09 • Permanent Link

Vulcan Materials logged a 2.8% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $254.89 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. VMC's trading volume is 1,090,527 compared to the stock's average volume of 834,864.

Vulcan Materials trades -9.06% away from its average analyst target price of $280.28 per share. The 22 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $235.0 to $310.0, and on average have given Vulcan Materials a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying VMC should be aware of the facts below:

Vulcan Materials's current price is 171.9% above its Graham number of $93.76, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Vulcan Materials has moved 18.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 27.1%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 6.91, Vulcan Materials has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 36.9 while the S&P 500 average is 28.21
VMC has a forward P/E ratio of 27.4 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $9.3 per share
The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 2.6 — a number near or below 1 signifying that Vulcan Materials is fairly valued compared to its estimated growth potential
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 4.37 compared to its sector average of 3.17
Vulcan Materials Company, together with its subsidiaries, produces and supplies construction aggregates primarily in the United States.
Based in Birmingham, the company has 10,961 full time employees and a market cap of $33.66 Billion. Vulcan Materials currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.7%.

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