Can Martin Marietta Materials, Inc’s (MLM) hike of 4.46% in a week be considered a lucky break?

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc (NYSE: MLM) on Friday, soared 3.45% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $475.27. Within the past 52 weeks, MLM’s price has moved between $441.95 and $633.23.

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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Basic Materials sector saw sales topped by 6.90%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 4.57%. With a float of $60.51 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $61.13 million.

The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 9400 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 28.72%, operating margin of 22.06%, and the pretax margin is 39.73%.

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc (MLM) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Observing investor behavior towards Building Materials industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Martin Marietta Materials, Inc is 0.77%, while institutional ownership is 98.95%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 05 ’25, was worth 632,700. In this transaction EVP and CHRO of this company sold 1,332 shares at a rate of $475.00, taking the stock ownership to the 3,523 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 04 ’25, when Company’s SVP – Strategy and Development bought 550 for $454.37, making the entire transaction worth $249,904. This insider now owns 8,985 shares in total.

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc (MLM) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 5.29 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 4.57% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.12% during the next five years compared to 27.15% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc (NYSE: MLM) Trading Performance Indicators

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc (MLM) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.40 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.59. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 49.63.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 32.35, a number that is poised to hit 1.85 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 21.72 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Martin Marietta Materials, Inc (MLM)

The latest stats from [Martin Marietta Materials, Inc, MLM] show that its last 5-days average volume of 0.68 million was superior to 0.57 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 74.61%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 19.37.

During the past 100 days, Martin Marietta Materials, Inc’s (MLM) raw stochastic average was set at 29.54%, which indicates a significant decrease from 88.93% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 37.76% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 24.95% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $493.50, while its 200-day Moving Average is $536.43. Now, the first resistance to watch is $502.06. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $512.43. The third major resistance level sits at $526.97. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $477.14, it is likely to go to the next support level at $462.60. The third support level lies at $452.23 if the price breaches the second support level.

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc (NYSE: MLM) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 29.98 billion based on 60,974K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 6,536 M and income totals 1,995 M. The company made 1,632 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 293,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.