Company Analysis

Martin Marietta Materials (MLM)

NYSE: MLM · Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels) · Raleigh, NC · filing with the SEC since 1996
Grade6.5
◀ Past 7.2● Present 6.7▶ Future 4.9

The grade of Martin Marietta Materials

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.5/10
◀ Past7.240% of the headline
● Present6.735% of the headline
▶ Future4.925% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.2/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.4/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 74th percentile among 23 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Martin Marietta Materials' filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+5.4% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Martin Marietta Materials' 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.8 billion in fiscal 2016 to $6.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.4% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span5.4%bottom 42% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 47% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 17% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak8.1%top 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
8.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.0% a year. 34% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 87th percentile among 15 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Martin Marietta Materials' diluted share count shrank about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 34% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 15% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.7/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 11%: 11¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 46%: owes 46¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 23 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Martin Marietta Materials earned about 11 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 10 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 46 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.6% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 46% of its family
  • return on equitytop 24% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 38% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 7% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 36% of 18 in its family; net margin 18.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 64th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Martin Marietta Materials' standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $6.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 9% by size; a net margin of 18.5% ranks in the top 13%; revenue growth of -0.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 14% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$6.15Btop 9% of its family
  • net margin18.5%top 13% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-0.1%bottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.9/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 21% of 13 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2010.

weight 22% of this tense · 79th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Martin Marietta Materials' leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Nye, C Howard (Chairman, Pres & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2010-01-29, 16.8 years (top 4% of its family); the 19 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.5 years (top 27%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 19 people in charge now (top 32%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge7 in three years among 19 peopletop 32% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed6.5 yearstop 27% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record16.8 yearstop 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.9/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
6.6/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 34% of 19 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 66th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Martin Marietta Materials' room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $67 million against debt of $5.3 billion leaves -27.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 33% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 15.9% of revenue (top 13%); a gross margin of 30.7% (top 21%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-27.9%bottom 33% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue15.9%top 13% of its family
  • gross margin30.7%top 21% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 37% of 19 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 37th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Martin Marietta Materials' growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.1% a year over the last three filed years against 5.4% over all 10, slowing (bottom 19% of its family); the newest year grew 8.6% (top 45%); research spending grew -49.4% a year (bottom 25%); capital spending grew 18.7% a year (bottom 47%) (its annual reports). Martin Marietta Materials reported 5 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Reportable at $6.2 billion, Building Materials Business at $5.7 billion, Building Materials Business East Group at $3.2 billion, and 2 more. 5 of 5 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 34% of revenue (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-5.5 points a yearbottom 19% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth8.6%top 45% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-49.4%bottom 25% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending18.7%bottom 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.0/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 50% of 16 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 50th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Martin Marietta Materials' newest year against its own record: revenue of $6.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 13.3% above the $5.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 34% of its family); net income of $1.1 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.3 billion (top 50%); a net margin of 18.5% against 23.1% before (bottom 34%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace13.3%top 34% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-15%top 50% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-4.6 pointsbottom 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton MLM · research, not advice