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VMC · Vulcan Materials Company (Holding Company)
$261.48 -0.08% Oct 26 close
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$VMC
Vulcan Materials Company (Holding Company)Vulcan Materials Company (Holding Company) is a large-cap Construction Materials company in the Non-Energy Minerals sector with a market cap of $38B.
Market Structure
Trend structure: uptrend
Latest event: structure_shift
(bullish)
Resistance
297.60–299.74
· 6 touches · strong
Resistance
294.72–296.00
· 5 touches · strong
Resistance
286.80–287.87
· 5 touches · strong
Resistance
283.23–284.50
· 4 touches · moderate
Resistance
288.98–289.57
· 4 touches · moderate
Earnings
Pre-earnings setup
Next earnings
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Report time not confirmed by the source
Ordinary position sizing suppressed.
Earnings are less than three full trading sessions away; treat the gap as event risk, not ordinary stop-distance risk.
Deterministic evidence
VMC-0.08%
Sector proxy · XLB+0.14%
Broad market · SPY+0.71%
CatalystPending
Stock reactionNegative
Sector reactionWeak
Opening surgePending
Event riskEarnings-driven
Session internals Mixed
Rule: direction and internals disagree — it met neither the strong nor the weak rule. Judged on internals, not on the size of the move.
Vs prior close-0.08%
From the open-0.49%
Range position35%
GapNo gap
QQQ confirmationDiverging (+1.11%)
SMH confirmationDiverging (+2.74%)
Short-term conviction -2 points.
Price bars, sourced event fields, and benchmark math only. This can adjust displayed short-term conviction; it does not change the stored scanner score or readiness.
- QQQ, SMH moved against the stock — no index confirmation.
- A sourced earnings report is still pending inside the risk window; ordinary technical conviction is reduced until it is out.
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More stats
52W Low
$237.03
Tight Wks
0
Base
B1
SMA 200
$280.91
ADR%
2.3%
ATR(14)
$5.99 (2.3%)
Vol Pace (live)
N/A
A/D Days
16A / 11D
A/D Rating
A+
Earnings
tomorrow
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Technical Analysis Report Card
$VMC · $261.48 · as of 2026-10-26 · multi-factor read
66
/ 100
Trend · Daily / Weekly / Monthly
Daily
▲ Recovering / early uptrend
Weekly
▬ Sideways / consolidating
Monthly
▬ Sideways / consolidating
Moving Averages
50-day$255.87 ↑
100-day$272.22 ↓
200-day$280.91 ↓
Bearish (50 < 200)
RSI (14)
Reading58.3 · Bullish
Bullish momentum — comfortably in buyer territory.
MACD (12/26/9)
StateBullish
Histogram+2.522
Bullish — MACD above its signal line and above zero. Histogram contracting.
Bollinger Bands (20,2)
%B / Width80% · 14.0%
Mid-band — no directional band edge in play.
Volume · Buyer vs Seller
Up/Down vol1.84 · Accumulation
Rel volume0.92×
Pocket pivots · 10d3
5d vs 50d vol117%
Heavy vol up / down3 / 2
Accumulation — volume is concentrated on up days; buyers dominate. Recent volume is expanding versus its baseline.
- Pocket pivot 3 sessions ago — up-day volume beat every down day of the prior 10 sessions.
- 3 heavy-volume up days vs 2 down in the last 20 sessions.
Support & Resistance
R · $281.19swing level
R · $288.98swing level
R · $300.06swing level
Price · $261.48now
S · $252.42swing level
S · $239.28swing level
Fibonacci · Downtrend swing
23.6%$256.88
38.2%$269.17
50.0%$279.10
61.8%$289.02
78.6%$303.16
Retracement resistance zones measured from the recent swing high down to the low.
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Daily uptrendBelow 200-day MA50/200 bearishVolume accumulation
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Base & Breakout
Breakout follow-through
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RS Line vs SPY
52-week relative strength · blue = RS line · dashed = MA50 · dot = NH
Accumulation / Distribution
last 65 sessions · green = acc on high vol · red = dist on high vol
Net -2
No patterns detected
This symbol didn't match any pattern in the latest scan.
Minervini Trend Template
2/8Grades the price structure — moving-average stacking, distance from the 52-week high/low, and relative strength above the ≥70 uptrend bar. This is the technical trend check; the company's fundamentals and ≥80 RS leadership are scored separately in the Grade Card.
Price above SMA 150 & 200
$261.48 vs SMA150 $275.46 / SMA200 $280.91
SMA 150 above SMA 200
SMA150 $275.46 vs SMA200 $280.91
SMA 200 trending up
Slope -4.23 over 20 days
SMA 50 above SMA 150 & 200
SMA50 $255.87
Price above SMA 50
$261.48 vs SMA50 $255.87
30%+ above 52-week low
+10.3% from $237.03
Within 25% of 52-week high
-21.0% from $331.09
RS score above 70
RS 50
Fundamentals
52W Range
26%
Mkt Cap SEC
37.9B
EPS QoQ
-40%
Rev YoY
+6%
ROE
13%
Gross Margin
27%
D/E
0.51
EPS TTM
$8.11
P/E TTM
32.2x
Float
130M
Insider
No Buy
Company
Company profile
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