With 0.55 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.94 million shares. During the session, the Building Materials company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $254.99 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $250.81. The 52-week range on VMC shows that it touched its highest point at $278.79 and its lowest point at $190.51 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $281.19. With its current market cap of 33.49 billion, VMC has annualized dividend of $1.81 while the current yield stands at 0.71%. VMC paid its most recent dividend on 1723680000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730678400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.82.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of VMC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.13%, but this was up by 1.48% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -0.08% while six-month performance fell -1.10%. The stock gained 25.22% in the past year, while it has gained 11.70% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VMC yields 6.86 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.05. For the next quarter, that number is 2.33. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.00% for this year and 22.01% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 13.94% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 12.63%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 132.10 million VMC shares are outstanding with a float of 131.82 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-30, short shares totaled 1.59 million, which was 120.0 higher than short shares on 1724976000. In addition to Mr. James Thomas Hill as the firm’s CEO & Chairman, Mr. Thompson S. Baker II serves as its President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.93597 of VMC’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-06-30, VMC reported revenue of $2014400000.0 and operating income of $449800000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $597900000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.31.
