Company name Vulcan Materials Company
Stock ticker VMC
Live stock price [stckqut]VMC[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Poor
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Poor

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $97.07
Target stock price (averages with growth) $6.28
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $6.28
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $78.23

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=vmc

Vulcan Materials Company, is a producer of construction aggregates primarily crushed stone, sand, and gravel. The Company is a producer of aggregates-based construction materials including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. The Company produces these materials from natural deposits such as granite, limestone and trap rock. The Company operates in four segments: Aggregates, Concrete, Asphalt Mix, And Cement. The Company has 341 active aggregates facilities. The Company also is a producer of asphalt mix and ready-mixed concrete, as well as a producer of cement in Florida. The Company is a construction materials business in the country with aggregates operations. In March 2014, Vulcan Materials Co Completed the sale of the Company’s cement and concrete businesses in the Florida area to Cementos Argos.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Vulcan Materials Company as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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How was this analysis of Vulcan Materials Company calculated?

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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

  • Stock price at the time of the calculation: $62.8
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.16
  • P/E: 54
  • Future EPS Calc: $2.33
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $125.99
  • Target stock price: $78.23

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