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Vulcan Materials (VMC) Competitors

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VMC vs. STRL, CRH, DY, EXP, KNF, MLM, NVR, URI, AMRZ, and CX

Should you be buying Vulcan Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vulcan Materials include Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), CRH (CRH), Dycom Industries (DY), Eagle Materials (EXP), Knife River (KNF), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), NVR (NVR), United Rentals (URI), Amrize (AMRZ), and Cemex (CX).

Vulcan Materials vs. Its Competitors

Sterling Infrastructure (NASDAQ:STRL) and Vulcan Materials (NYSE:VMC) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.

80.9% of Sterling Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of Vulcan Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Sterling Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Vulcan Materials shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Sterling Infrastructure currently has a consensus target price of $355.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.69%. Vulcan Materials has a consensus target price of $308.58, indicating a potential downside of 0.04%. Given Vulcan Materials' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Vulcan Materials is more favorable than Sterling Infrastructure.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Sterling Infrastructure
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.25
Vulcan Materials
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.94

Vulcan Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Sterling Infrastructure. Sterling Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vulcan Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sterling Infrastructure$2.14B5.30$257.46M$9.2040.48
Vulcan Materials$7.42B5.50$911.90M$7.1643.12

Sterling Infrastructure has a net margin of 13.33% compared to Vulcan Materials' net margin of 12.52%. Sterling Infrastructure's return on equity of 27.93% beat Vulcan Materials' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sterling Infrastructure13.33% 27.93% 11.18%
Vulcan Materials 12.52%12.81%6.41%

Sterling Infrastructure has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vulcan Materials has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Vulcan Materials had 24 more articles in the media than Sterling Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Vulcan Materials and 8 mentions for Sterling Infrastructure. Sterling Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Vulcan Materials' score of 0.89 indicating that Sterling Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Sterling Infrastructure
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Vulcan Materials
12 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Vulcan Materials beats Sterling Infrastructure on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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VMC vs. The Competition

MetricVulcan MaterialsBLDG IndustryConstruction SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$40.72B$10.73B$9.67B$22.02B
Dividend Yield0.65%1.56%1.86%3.64%
P/E Ratio43.0516.1017.3330.27
Price / Sales5.5021.83101.0768.06
Price / Cash23.2312.9115.3823.91
Price / Book5.014.024.824.74
Net Income$911.90M$473.25M$625.67M$1.01B
7 Day Performance1.40%1.41%0.62%-0.06%
1 Month Performance4.96%1.23%-0.80%1.87%
1 Year Performance22.12%89.91%107.27%15.74%

Vulcan Materials Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VMC
Vulcan Materials
3.9313 of 5 stars
$306.28
-0.9%
$308.58
+0.8%
+24.2%$40.48B$7.42B42.7911,436Dividend Announcement
STRL
Sterling Infrastructure
1.7877 of 5 stars
$352.78
+1.0%
$355.00
+0.6%
+126.4%$10.73B$2.14B38.353,000Gap Up
CRH
CRH
3.4938 of 5 stars
$118.28
-1.4%
$124.31
+5.1%
+30.2%$79.56B$36.35B24.7479,800Positive News
Analyst Forecast
DY
Dycom Industries
3.7821 of 5 stars
$288.47
+0.7%
$293.25
+1.7%
+55.1%$8.35B$4.99B32.4115,623Analyst Forecast
EXP
Eagle Materials
3.3975 of 5 stars
$236.93
+1.0%
$254.78
+7.5%
-19.7%$7.69B$2.29B17.452,500
KNF
Knife River
3.6387 of 5 stars
$71.20
-2.0%
$106.83
+50.0%
-22.2%$4.03B$2.95B26.474,761
MLM
Martin Marietta Materials
3.9296 of 5 stars
$637.74
+0.5%
$622.63
-2.4%
+18.7%$38.46B$6.54B35.379,400Positive News
NVR
NVR
3.4023 of 5 stars
$8,078.00
-1.2%
$8,783.33
+8.7%
-20.3%$23.18B$10.29B17.057,000
URI
United Rentals
4.4568 of 5 stars
$986.21
+0.6%
$941.00
-4.6%
+19.2%$63.45B$15.35B25.5027,900Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
AMRZ
Amrize
2.1365 of 5 stars
$48.38
-0.7%
$58.67
+21.3%
N/A$26.76B$11.70B0.0019,000Analyst Forecast
CX
Cemex
2.8308 of 5 stars
$8.98
-1.0%
$9.02
+0.5%
+58.4%$13.01B$16.20B8.8045,649News Coverage
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