Vulcan Materials Company

VMC Basic Materials Building Materials

Vulcan Materials Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $7.9 billion, up 7.06% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−4.67%
EPS
−1.02%
Free cash flow
−54.2%
Total debt
+0.11%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

284.69 13.00 −4.37%
Market cap
$36.6B
P/E
33.5×
Fwd P/E
32.4×
Dividend yield
0.72%
F-score
9/9
Altman Z
4.15
Beneish M
−2.68
Dividend safety
80/100

Vulcan Materials Company (VMC) Gross margin

Alert me on Gross margin

Vulcan Materials Company's gross margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 27.5%, up 0.1 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (27.4%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 21.3% (fiscal 2022) to 27.5% (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 91% of that period. That is in line with the Building Materials industry median of 26.2% and above the Basic Materials sector median of 25.0%.

Gross margin, annual

Embed this chart

Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 27.4% 0.42
FY2024 27.0% 1.92
FY2023 25.0% 3.75
FY2022 21.3% (3.45)
FY2021 24.7% (1.65)
FY2020 26.4% 0.91
FY2019 25.5% 0.36
FY2018 25.1% (0.42)
FY2017 25.5% (1.99)
FY2016 27.5% 2.47

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 30.5% 1.46
Jun 2026 29.0% 4.94
Mar 2026 24.1% (1.39)
Dec 2025 25.5% (4.97)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 21.3% High 27.5%
Ten-year median 25.5%
Current reading's percentile 84

Gross margin against peers

Company Gross margin
USLM United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. compare 47.6%
CRH CRH PLC compare 36.2%
JHX James Hardie Industries PLC. compare 35.9%
CX Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. compare 34.1%
VMC Vulcan Materials Company 27.5%
MLM Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. compare 26.7%
EXP Eagle Materials Inc compare 25.8%
AMRZ Amrize Ltd compare 25.0%
KNF Knife River Corporation compare 17.6%
Building Materials industry median 26.2%
Basic Materials sector median 25.0%
Market median 45.1%

What Gross margin is

Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.

Gross Profit ÷ Revenue

The full definition of Gross margin →

More on VMC