secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Vulcan Materials CO (VMC)
CIK:        0001396009
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-07-31T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001140361-25-028104
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Vulcan Materials Q2 earnings beat: adj EBITDA $660M (+9% YoY), aggregates margins expand
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- Q2 total revenue $2.10B (+4% YoY); net earnings $321M ($2.43 EPS), vs $308M ($2.33) prior year.
- Adjusted EBITDA $660M, margin 31.4% (+150 bps YoY); aggregates cash gross profit per ton $11.88 (+9% YoY).
- Aggregate shipments 59.3M tons (-1% YoY due to weather); freight-adjusted price per ton $22.11 (+5% YoY).
- Full-year Adjusted EBITDA outlook reaffirmed at $2.35–$2.55B; debt-to-EBITDA 2.2x, within target.
- Returned $65M to shareholders via dividends (+6% YoY); capex $102M in Q2.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1396009/000114036125028104/0001140361-25-028104-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1396009/000114036125028104/ef20052989_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-028104

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