Is it safe?
Can VMC take a bad year?
Vulcan Materials Company carries $4.42B of net debt at 1.85× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$4.42B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.85×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.03× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 4.34
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 7.09×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $4.56B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $140M
- Net debt
- $4.42B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.39B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.66B
- Debt / equity
- 0.54×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.91×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 26%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −49%
- Below its 52-week high
- −17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Building Materials
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