Is the price fair?
What VMC's price assumes
Vulcan Materials Company trades at 32.6× earnings against 19.3× for the median Building Materials name, more expensive than its own group.
32.6
Trailing P/E · Building Materials median 19.3 · 1.69× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 4.42
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- 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.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 4.22
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 24.0
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 4.95
- Basic Materials median P/E153 names
- 22.8
- Building Materials median P/E12 names
- 19.3
- 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 | $240.55 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $293.95 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $304.21 |
| 52-week range | $256.51 – $329.09 |
| Today | $273.76 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Building Materials
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