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Vulcan Materials is the United States' largest producer of construction aggregates (crushed stone, sand, and gravel). Its largest markets include Texas, California, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Alabama. In 2024, Vulcan sold 219.9 million tons of aggregates, 13.6 million tons of asphalt mix, and 3.6 million cubic yards of ready-mix. As of Dec. 31, 2024, the company had 16.5 billion tons of aggregate reserves.
Vulcan Materials Company (Holding Company) trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol VMC.
As of February 3, 2026, VMC stock price climbed to $311.01 with 1,316,202 million shares trading.
VMC has a beta of 0.58, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VMC has a correlation of 0.22 to the broad based SPY ETF.
VMC has a market cap of $41.07 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Vulcan Materials Company (Holding Company) reported $2 billion in Revenue and $2.84 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $33 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.14.
In the last 3 years, VMC traded as high as $318.67 and as low as $159.76.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that VMC belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, IVV, SPY.
VMC has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +14.2%, while SPY returned +15.8%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in VMC shares. However, VMC has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +7.6% and +1.6%, while SPY returned +1.4% and -0.3%, respectively. This indicates VMC has been having a stronger performance recently.
VMC support price is $300.14 and resistance is $311.70 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that VMC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
