VMCVulcan Materials Company
Is the price fair?
The yardsticks disagree: cheap against its own 5-year P/E range (23rd percentile) but the cash-flow math implies demanding growth. Treat as fair, not cheap.
Priced for ~13% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 3% a year, priced for acceleration.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 29.1 vs a 33.5 median over 40 quarters (−13% vs median).
Sector median 18.9× across 51 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Mar 31, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What VMC's price assumes
Vulcan Materials Company trades at 29.1× earnings against 15.5× for the median Building Materials name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Building Materials median 15.5 · 1.88× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 4.87
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.8%
Free cash flow yield · Building Materials median 2.6%
- Growth the price implies
- +13%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +13% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +27% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 4.65
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 26.4
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 5.42
- Basic Materials median P/E203 names
- 20.7
- Building Materials median P/E12 names
- 15.5
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.12B
- Market capitalisation
- $39.3B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +2.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +27%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $254.35 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $281.27 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $312.24 |
| 52-week range | $240.85 – $329.09 |
| Today | $244.65 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
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