VMC Dividend Calculator
Vulcan Materials Company yields 0.84%, below the 2.92% median across US dividend payers. The income from VMC is a smaller part of the story than it would be on a high-yield holding, and the figures below deliberately capture only that part.
VMC paid $2.05 per share over the last twelve months on a quarterly schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.
Your investment
VMC
Vulcan Materials Company
0.84%
yield
Dividend income
$10,000 in VMC pays you
$83.67
per year
- Paid each quarter
- $20.92
- Monthly average
- $6.97
- Shares bought
- 40.82
- Payments a year
- 4
Total over 10 years, taken as cash
$836.73
Based on the trailing twelve-month dividend, assuming it stays flat. Payments are not guaranteed and can be cut or suspended at any time. Figures are before tax and exclude any change in the share price.
VMC dividend income by investment amount
Based on the current yield of 0.84%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.
| Invested | Per year | Per payment | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $8.37 | $2.09 | $0.70 |
| $5,000 | $41.84 | $10.46 | $3.49 |
| $10,000 | $83.67 | $20.92 | $6.97 |
| $25,000 | $209.18 | $52.30 | $17.43 |
| $50,000 | $418.37 | $104.59 | $34.86 |
| $100,000 | $836.73 | $209.18 | $69.73 |
VMC with dividends reinvested
$10,000 in VMC, every dividend reinvested, holding the payment and share price flat. Deliberately conservative — most calculators assume years of uninterrupted growth, and that assumption drives most of the result.
- After 10 years
- $10,872
- After 20 years
- $11,820
- After 30 years
- $12,850
$10,837 taking the income as cash
$11,673 taking the income as cash
$12,510 taking the income as cash
What makes up VMC's 0.84% yield
VMC paid $2.05 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $245.00, which is where the 0.84% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.
A below-median yield is not the same as a weak dividend. It commonly means earnings are being retained and reinvested, or that the share price has risen faster than the payment — in the second case the holder's income did not fall, the yield did. Income is one component of the return on VMC and the smaller one; the figures below are not a total-return estimate.
Materials dividends are funded by commodity earnings and are among the most cyclical on the market. A trailing yield captures what was paid through one part of that cycle, which may not resemble the next.
When VMC pays, and what that changes
VMC pays quarterly, the standard schedule for US-listed payers, so the "per payment" column is one quarter of the annual figure and the "monthly average" column is a smoothed figure rather than a description of when cash arrives — nothing is paid in eight months of the year.
Each payment has an ex-dividend date, and it is the date that governs entitlement: shares bought on or after it do not carry that payment. VMC's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.
Is VMC's dividend covered by earnings?
VMC's payout ratio of 0.24 means roughly 24% of earnings go to the dividend, leaving the rest retained. A margin that size is what allows a payment to be maintained through a weaker year without being funded from borrowing.
That ratio deserves a caveat specific to cyclical earnings, though: it is struck against one year's profits, and in this kind of business those profits swing with prices the company does not set. A comfortable-looking ratio at the top of a cycle and a stretched one at the bottom can describe an unchanged dividend — so the level matters less here than where in the cycle it was measured.
These projections hold the dividend flat, which understates VMC if its recent record continues — the payment has increased in each of the last 12 years. Growth is left out rather than estimated because choosing a growth rate, not the arithmetic, is what determines a decade-long projection.
VMC dividend calculator FAQ
- How much does $10,000 in VMC pay in dividends?
- At VMC's current yield of 0.84%, $10,000 pays about $83.67 a year — roughly $20.92 per payment, paid quarterly, or $6.97 a month averaged out.
- What would VMC be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
- Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in VMC would grow to about $10,872 after 10 years, against $10,837 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.
- How often does VMC pay dividends?
- VMC pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
- Is VMC's dividend guaranteed?
- No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check VMC's full payment history before relying on any of it.
- Has VMC increased its dividend every year?
- VMC has raised its dividend in each of the last 12 years on our records, which are derived from split-adjusted payment history and are approximate. The projections above deliberately ignore that growth and hold the payment flat, so a continuation of the record would put the real outcome above the figures shown.
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Vulcan Materials Company is a common stock trading at $245.00 per share, paying quarterly. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.