With a market cap of $35.7 billion, Birmingham, Alabama-based Vulcan Materials Company (VMC) is a leading producer and supplier of construction aggregates in the United States. Operating through four segments: Aggregates; Asphalt; Concrete; and Calcium, the company provides essential materials for public infrastructure, residential, and commercial construction projects, as well as calcium products for various industrial applications.
VMC is expected to release its fiscal Q4 earnings results before the market opens on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Ahead of this event, analysts project the construction materials company to report a profit of $1.76 per share, reflecting an increase of 20.6% from $1.46 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has surpassed Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in two of the last four quarterly reports while missing on two other occasions. In Q3, VMC missed the consensus EPS estimate by a margin of 5.1%.
