VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY
At today's price, VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY (VMC) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~5.3 years. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- Vulcan is the largest US producer of construction aggregates, with crushed stone, sand and gravel at about 73% of the business and asphalt and concrete making up the rest. Q1 2026 revenue rose 7% to $1.76 billion, EPS of $1.35 beat the $1.12 consensus by more than 20%, and gross margin expanded 180 basis points to 24.1%. - The franchise is a pricing machine. Aggregates shipped 50.0 million tons at a freight-adjusted price of $22.80 a ton, and full-year guidance calls for 4% to 6% pricing grow
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994 institutional managers reported holding VMC in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 90% of the company; the top 10 hold 48%. 83 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 5.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (4.6 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
VMC has cut its share count 1.6% over the past five years, spending $856.70M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 12 years straight; the current rate is $1.96 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $686.10M in dividends and $806.80M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at VMC over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
VMC's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-05 | +1.3% | -6.0% |
| 2023-10-28 | -4.8% | +17.2% |
| 2024-02-23 | -0.7% | +1.6% |
| 2024-05-03 | +1.8% | -7.7% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
VMC's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-11 (items 5.02, 5.07); 2026-04-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-12 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-17 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-12-12 (items 5.02).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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