Which is more profitable, Martin Marietta Materials or Vulcan Materials?

Martin Marietta Materials keeps more of every sale as profit.

Which grows faster, Martin Marietta Materials or Vulcan Materials?

Vulcan Materials grew its sales faster in recent years.

Which is cheaper, Martin Marietta Materials or Vulcan Materials?

Martin Marietta Materials costs less for each unit of yearly profit (lower P/E).

Which has less debt, Martin Marietta Materials or Vulcan Materials?

Vulcan Materials would need fewer years of earnings to pay off its debt.

Martin Marietta MaterialsMLMvs

Vulcan MaterialsVMC

Martin Marietta Materials vs Vulcan Materials stock

Side by side in plain words: who keeps more of its sales, grows faster, costs less and owes less.

In one sentence

Martin Marietta Materials is more profitable and is cheaper for its profits. Vulcan Materials grows faster and has less debt.

Side by side

	Martin Marietta Materials	Vulcan Materials
	$36.5 billion	$35.8 billion
	18.5%	13.6%
	+5.4%	+10.3%
	32.1×	33.2×
	2.7 years	1.9 years
	7.5%	8.3%
	0.6%	0.7%

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How we compare

Four contests with the same rules as each stock page: profit kept from sales (higher wins), yearly sales growth across the last reports, up to five years (higher wins), price per unit of yearly profit (lower P/E wins; a company without profit loses) and debt in years of earnings (lower wins). A winner is only named when both companies have the number.