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Martin Marietta Materials Inc

Basic Materials · Building Materials

$534.39

+4.78%

Close on Oct 29, 2026

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Quality

53

of 100 · stored research reading

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Fundamental Momentum

Deteriorating

37

of 100 · stored research reading

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Capital Returns

Favorable

66

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Capital Returns research reads 66 of 100, recorded as favorable. Stored records show 13 consecutive years of dividend payments. Share count has been reduced at about 0.7% a year in the stored window.

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Price / earnings
12.5

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What this company does

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (the Company or Martin Marietta) is a leading natural resource-based building materials company. The Company supplies aggregates (crushed stone, sand and gravel) through its network of approximately 400 quarries, mines and distribution yards in 28 states, Canada and The Bahamas. In 2025, aggregates generated 88% of the Company’s total reportable segment gross profit. As of December 31, 2025, Martin Marietta also provides other building materials, namely, cement, ready mixed concrete, asphalt and paving services in targeted markets where the Company has a notable aggregates position. The Company’s heavy-side building materials are used in infrastructure, nonresidential and residential construction projects. Aggregates are also used in agricultural, utility and environmental applications and as railroad ballast. The aggregates, cement, ready mixed concrete, asphalt and paving operations are reported collectively as the "Building Materials business".

The Company also operates a Specialties business (formerly known as the Magnesia Specialties business) with production facilities located in Michigan, Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina, Indiana and Pennsylvania. The Specialties business produces high-purity natural and synthetic magnesia-based products, including magnesium sulfate, magnesium oxide and magnesium hydroxide, that are used in environmental, industrial, agricultural, construction, consumer and specialty applications. The Specialties business also produces dolomitic lime, which is sold primarily to external customers for use in steel production and soil stabilization, and is also used internally as a raw material input in synthetic magnesia production. Specialties’ products are shipped to customers domestically and worldwide.

The Company was formed in 1993 as a North Carolina corporation to succeed the operations of the materials group of the organization that is now known as Lockheed Martin Corporation. An initial public offering of a portion of the Company’s common stock was completed in 1994, followed in 1996 by a tax-free exchange transaction resulting in all of the Company’s common stock becoming publicly traded. Since its initial public offering, the Company has completed over 100 acquisitions, as well as a number of strategic dispositions, strengthening and expanding its aggregates-led presence in the building materials marketplace.

On January 12, 2024, the Company acquired Albert Frei & Sons, Inc., a leading aggregates producer in Colorado. This acquisition added more than 60 years (at current production levels) of high-quality, hard rock reserves, strengthening the Company's aggregates platform in the Denver metropolitan area and improving service to new and existing customers.

Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed February 19, 2026. Read the filing

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