NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) --

Vulcan Materials Company

(NYSE:

VMC

) hit a new 52-week high Thursday as it is currently trading at $47.23, above its previous 52-week high of $47.18 with 269,364 shares traded as of 10:20 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 1.6 million shares over the past 30 days.

Vulcan has a market cap of $5.46 billion and is part of the

industrial goods

sector and

materials & construction

industry. Shares are up 16.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.

Vulcan Materials Company engages in the production and sale of construction aggregates for the infrastructure industry primarily in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Aggregates, Concrete, Asphalt Mix, and Cement.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Vulcan as a

hold

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including disappointing return on equity, poor profit margins and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share. You can view the full

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