NYSE:VMI - Valmont Industries Stock Price, News & Analysis

Valmont Industries trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "VMI."

Valmont Industries announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, September 3rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 27th will be given a dividend of $0.375 per share on Tuesday, October 15th. This represents a $1.50 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.04%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 26th. View Valmont Industries' Dividend History.

Valmont Industries declared that its board has initiated a share repurchase program on Wednesday, October 31st 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $250,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy up to 9.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Valmont Industries, Inc. (NYSE:VMI) released its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 23rd. The industrial products company reported $2.10 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.24 by $0.14. The industrial products company had revenue of $700.90 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $725.44 million. Valmont Industries had a net margin of 3.61% and a return on equity of 14.86%. The business's revenue was up 2.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.98 EPS. View Valmont Industries' Earnings History.

Valmont Industries is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Valmont Industries.

Valmont Industries will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, October 24th at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

2 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Valmont Industries' stock. Their predictions range from $153.00 to $153.00. On average, they anticipate Valmont Industries' stock price to reach $153.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 6.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Valmont Industries.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Valmont Industries in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Valmont Industries.

Press coverage about VMI stock has trended somewhat positive on Monday, InfoTrie reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Valmont Industries earned a coverage optimism score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Valmont Industries.

Valmont Industries saw a decline in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 253,700 shares, a decline of 26.7% from the July 31st total of 345,900 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 137,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.8 days. Currently, 1.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Valmont Industries' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Valmont Industries include Proto Labs (PRLB), Harsco (HSC), HC2 (HCHC), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI) and TechPrecision (TPCS).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Valmont Industries investors own include Lincoln Electric (LECO), United Technologies (UTX), The Coca-Cola (KO), Lindsay (LNN), SYSCO (SYY), Waste Management (WM), Cisco Systems (Csco), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Starbucks (SBUX) and Bank of America (BAC).

Valmont Industries' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.01%), BlackRock Inc. (8.82%), BlackRock Inc. (8.82%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (5.24%), Impax Asset Management Group plc (4.09%) and Schroder Investment Management Group (2.68%). Company insiders that own Valmont Industries stock include Daas Kaj Den, John A Kehoe, Mark C Jaksich and Vanessa Kay Brown. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Valmont Industries.

VMI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, QV Investors Inc., Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC, Retirement Systems of Alabama, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Vanguard Group Inc., Man Group plc and BlackRock Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Valmont Industries company stock in the last year include Daas Kaj Den and Mark C Jaksich. View Insider Buying and Selling for Valmont Industries.

VMI stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Invesco Ltd., Impax Asset Management Group plc, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Atria Investments LLC, Atria Investments LLC, KBC Group NV, Fiduciary Management Inc. WI and Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Valmont Industries.

Shares of VMI can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of VMI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $144.35.

Valmont Industries has a market capitalization of $3.12 billion and generates $2.76 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $94.35 million in net income (profit) each year or $7.58 on an earnings per share basis. Valmont Industries employs 10,328 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Valmont Industries.

The official website for Valmont Industries is http://www.valmont.com/.

Valmont Industries' mailing address is ONE VALMONT PLAZA, OMAHA NE, 68154. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 402-963-1000 or via email at [email protected]