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The short versionA profitable company with steady sales. Institutions are adding.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Brings in more cash than it spends
- Raised its dividend (0.7% yield)
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 3.8% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (510 bought, 459 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$261.46-0.1% that day
- Company value
- $33.9B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 31.1x
- You pay about $31 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 4.2x
- Company value is 4.2 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 0.7%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 0%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 13%
- Debt as a share of company value
From VMC's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Mar '26$1.8B+7.4% vs a year earlier
Jun '23Tap a barMar '26
Last 12 months: $8.1B, up 7.4% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 10% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.12.9%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.51x equity
- PassNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.13.6%
- PassProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.10 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$1.1B
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-0.7% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.27.4%
- Revenue
- $7.9B
- +7.1% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +10.3%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $4.4B
- 0.51x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.69x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Mar 31, 2026- Revenue
- $1.8B
- +7.4% YoY
- EPS
- $1.26
- vs $0.97
- Op. margin
- 15.1%
- +1.2 pts
- Gross margin
- 24.1%
- +1.8 pts
- Free cash flow
- $64.6M
- Share count
- -1.4%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
54/ 100
- This week
- 1
- Normal week
- 0.8
- vs normal
- 1.2x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
▲Accumulating+3.8%Institutions added 3.8% to their holdings. 510 bought, 459 sold.
Shares held by institutions128.1M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-0.8%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.5x · $4.4B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
130MNext reportIn 2 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 29
- Results filedApr 29
- Results filedFeb 17
- Results filedOct 30, 2025
- Results filedJul 31, 2025
Flags and big holders
Offerings 6 months, flags 12 months, holders 90 days
No offerings, red flags or new big holders. Clean record.
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.