Vulcan Materials Co (VMC) saw an uptrend of 1434495% in the recent trading with $1120000.0 being its most recent. The current price level -14.64% lower than the highest price of $298.31 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 18.39% higher than the lowest price of $215.08 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on VMC appeared in (StockStory) under the title “The Top 5 Analyst Questions From Vulcan Materials’s Q1 Earnings Call” on Today.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Strong Buy by 14 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 1.68 for the stock.
Vulcan Materials Co Earnings – What Happened With VMC
Coming around sales and income figures on VMC Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
Vulcan Materials Co – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 132.10 million. VMC does have institutional investors; and they hold 94.08% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) with an ownership of 16.18 million shares of the company or 12.2189 of the stake worth $4.02 billion. The filing also reveals BLACKROCK INC. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 7.5807 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $2.5 billion for having 10.04 million shares in hand.
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 7.3011 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 1268.0 institutions which have possession in VMC’s shares.
Key Metrics forVMC
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Vulcan Materials Co has a debt to equity ratio of 0.68.
Technical Analysis of Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Vulcan Materials Co (VMC), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 1,050,080 shares and 50% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Buy. Medium term indicators at an average of 50% are spotting the stock at Buy with its 50-day average volume of 992,522 shares. And to end, VMC’s 100-day average volume is 1,159,764 shares with 50% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Sell for the stock.
