Vulcan Materials Company

VMC stock score: 56/100

$264.64 · +1.04% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
55
Fundamental
57
News
43

The reading

Vulcan Materials Company (VMC) scores 56 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 59% of Basic Materials stocks and 61% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 55, fundamentals 57.

Among the fundamentals, Operating Margins at 96 and EBITDA Margins at 95 score highest, while Fair Value at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 61 and contrarian oscillators 30 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 43; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 24, 2026 the composite has ranged from 49 to 73, and it is up 2 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward VMC’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

57

Pulling it up

  • Operating Margins96

    Operating margins measure profitability after operating expenses.

  • EBITDA Margins95

    EBITDA margins measure operating profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

  • Revenue Quality (Quarterly)95

    Revenue Quality (Quarterly) evaluates recent revenue performance using trailing 12-month data from quarterly reports.

Holding it back

  • Fair Value0

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • Price to Sales Ratio5

    Price-to-Sales ratio compares market capitalization to annual revenue.

  • Earnings Estimates16

    Earnings estimates score evaluates analyst projections for future profitability.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

53

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Stochastic (14)100

    Stochastic Oscillator (14-period) compares the current price to its range over 14 periods.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (28)1

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

  • Williams %R (14)1

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
43

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly551
Daily533
Weekly452
Monthly592
Quarterly632

Composite score, last 90 days

05010056Jul 24, 2026Oct 21, 2026Jul 24, 2026: 54Jul 25, 2026: 54Jul 26, 2026: 54Jul 27, 2026: 71Jul 28, 2026: 73Jul 29, 2026: 69Jul 30, 2026: 66Jul 31, 2026: 66Aug 2, 2026: 53Aug 3, 2026: 56Aug 5, 2026: 58Aug 6, 2026: 55Aug 7, 2026: 56Aug 8, 2026: 56Aug 9, 2026: 56Aug 10, 2026: 56Aug 11, 2026: 57Aug 12, 2026: 57Aug 13, 2026: 53Aug 14, 2026: 55Aug 15, 2026: 55Aug 16, 2026: 57Aug 17, 2026: 53Aug 18, 2026: 51Aug 19, 2026: 53Aug 20, 2026: 53Aug 22, 2026: 53Aug 23, 2026: 53Aug 24, 2026: 54Aug 25, 2026: 53Aug 26, 2026: 53Aug 27, 2026: 53Aug 28, 2026: 54Aug 29, 2026: 53Aug 30, 2026: 53Aug 31, 2026: 52Sep 1, 2026: 51Sep 2, 2026: 53Sep 3, 2026: 51Sep 4, 2026: 52Sep 5, 2026: 51Sep 6, 2026: 51Sep 7, 2026: 51Sep 8, 2026: 52Sep 9, 2026: 49Sep 10, 2026: 49Sep 11, 2026: 51Sep 12, 2026: 50Sep 13, 2026: 50Sep 14, 2026: 50Sep 15, 2026: 50Sep 16, 2026: 50Sep 17, 2026: 49Sep 18, 2026: 49Sep 19, 2026: 50Sep 20, 2026: 50Sep 21, 2026: 50Sep 22, 2026: 53Sep 23, 2026: 52Sep 24, 2026: 51Sep 25, 2026: 51Sep 26, 2026: 51Sep 27, 2026: 51Sep 28, 2026: 51Sep 29, 2026: 50Sep 30, 2026: 51Oct 1, 2026: 51Oct 2, 2026: 51Oct 3, 2026: 51Oct 4, 2026: 51Oct 5, 2026: 51Oct 6, 2026: 53Oct 7, 2026: 51Oct 8, 2026: 52Oct 9, 2026: 51Oct 10, 2026: 51Oct 11, 2026: 51Oct 12, 2026: 52Oct 13, 2026: 51Oct 14, 2026: 51Oct 15, 2026: 54Oct 16, 2026: 55Oct 17, 2026: 55Oct 18, 2026: 55Oct 19, 2026: 55Oct 20, 2026: 55Oct 21, 2026: 56
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Key facts

Market cap
$34.3B
Sector
Basic Materials
Industry
Building Materials
Beta
1.05
Risk grade (1–10)
6
Next earnings
Oct 29, 2026

Building Materials peers

CompanyMarket capScore
CRH CRH$57.2B58
MLM Martin Marietta Materials$36.2B51
AMRZ Amrize$21.2B51
JHX James Hardie Industries$15.3B55
CX CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V.$15.0B58
EXP Eagle Materials$5.3B54

Questions

What is VMC's stock score today?

VMC scores 56/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 55, fundamental 57, and news sentiment 43, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is VMC a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 56 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the VMC score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Basic Materials ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.