On Tuesday, Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE: VMC) was -0.26% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $278.74. A 52-week range for VMC has been $209.39 – $298.31.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Basic Materials sector saw sales topped by 12.69%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 2.98%. With a float of $131.83 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $132.10 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 10382 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 26.15%, operating margin of 17.59%, and the pretax margin is 15.79%.
Vulcan Materials Co (VMC) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Vulcan Materials Co stocks. The insider ownership of Vulcan Materials Co is 0.18%, while institutional ownership is 92.53%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 08 ’24, was worth 481,491. In this transaction Senior Vice President of this company sold 1,657 shares at a rate of $290.58, taking the stock ownership to the 8,883 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 12 ’24, when Company’s SVP, Gen. Counsel & Secretary sold 1,942 for $290.00, making the entire transaction worth $563,180. This insider now owns 4,472 shares in total.
Vulcan Materials Co (VMC) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 9/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 1.46 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 1.4) by 0.06. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.09 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 2.98% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 14.45% during the next five years compared to 12.63% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE: VMC) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Vulcan Materials Co (VMC) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 2.02. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.96. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 45.68.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.35, a number that is poised to hit 1.78 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.05 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Vulcan Materials Co (VMC)
The latest stats from [Vulcan Materials Co, VMC] show that its last 5-days average volume of 0.68 million was inferior to 0.84 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 21.21%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.17.
During the past 100 days, Vulcan Materials Co’s (VMC) raw stochastic average was set at 72.17%, which indicates a significant increase from 33.70% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 30.37% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 28.51% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $258.52, while its 200-day Moving Average is $256.43. Now, the first resistance to watch is $279.59. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $281.18. The third major resistance level sits at $284.14. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $275.04, it is likely to go to the next support level at $272.08. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $270.49.
Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE: VMC) Key Stats
There are 132,061K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 36.71 billion. As of now, sales total 7,782 M while income totals 933,200 K. Its latest quarter income was 2,004 M while its last quarter net income were 207,600 K.
