What Our Analysts Know About Vulcan Materials

By Chris Stiles • Thursday, November 20 15:18 • Permanent Link

Vulcan Materials logged a 1.3% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $287.81 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -1.0%. VMC's trading volume is 1,152,598 compared to the stock's average volume of 880,835.

Vulcan Materials trades -9.41% away from its average analyst target price of $317.7 per share. The 23 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $198.0 to $370.0, and on average have given Vulcan Materials a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in VMC, you'll want to know the following:

Vulcan Materials's current price is 196.8% above its Graham number of $96.96, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Vulcan Materials has moved 1.1% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 11.7%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 8.47, Vulcan Materials has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 34.0 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
VMC has a forward P/E ratio of 31.7 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $9.08 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 4.35 compared to its sector average of 2.89
Vulcan Materials Company produces and supplies construction aggregates in the United States.
Based in Birmingham, the company has 11,971 full time employees and a market cap of $38.03 Billion. Vulcan Materials currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.7%.

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