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title: "Weekly Recap | MLM.US -3.07%, most brokers rate it buy"
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description: "Martin Marietta Materials (MLM) fell 3.07% this week to $514.77. The S&P 500 added 0.09%, leaving the stock about 3.16 percentage points behind the benchmark. The week’s range was 4.93%, with an early dip and a partial recovery: shares opened Monday at $525.70 and touched $528.46, then slid to a low of $502.56 on Tuesday. Thursday brought another pull-back to $508.94 before a Friday close at $514.77, still below Monday’s open."
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# Weekly Recap | MLM.US -3.07%, most brokers rate it buy

## The Week

Martin Marietta Materials (MLM) fell 3.07% this week to $514.77. The S&P 500 added 0.09%, leaving the stock about 3.16 percentage points behind the benchmark. The week’s range was 4.93%, with an early dip and a partial recovery: shares opened Monday at $525.70 and touched $528.46, then slid to a low of $502.56 on Tuesday. Thursday brought another pull-back to $508.94 before a Friday close at $514.77, still below Monday’s open. Average daily volume was roughly 814,000 shares, about 42% above the 60-day median.

## Key Events

Company-specific news was light. On 1 September (Tuesday), a filing showed Pelham Capital Ltd. had sold part of its position in MLM. Beyond that, several market briefs across 1-4 September highlighted the stock’s day-to-day performance relative to competitors: it underperformed peers on Monday and Thursday, and outperformed them on Tuesday and Friday. There were no product, earnings or partnership updates this week, so the move largely reflected sentiment across building materials.

## Analyst Ratings

Based on the latest roll-up, 26 firms cover the stock: 11 rate it buy and 4 rate it overweight, while 8 are at hold, 1 at underweight, and none at sell; 2 have no opinion. The consensus recommendation is buy, with a consensus target of $661.54, about 28.5% above the spot price of $514.77. Targets are wide apart, from $440 to $800. Within the building materials industry, MLM ranks 1st in analyst ratings across 13 covered names.

## The Week Ahead

The macro calendar is busy. On 8 September (Tuesday), the US NFIB small-business optimism index prints, with a prior of 99.8. Thursday 10 September is the key day: results from the 10-year Treasury auction, initial jobless claims, the PPI series and existing home sales all land. Initial claims had a prior of 206 and a forecast of 205; final-demand PPI year-on-year had a prior of 4.7 and a forecast of 5.3. These will shape rate expectations and may feed into infrastructure and property-linked sectors such as building materials.

## In Short

MLM lost 3.07% this week, underperforming the S&P 500, while the analyst picture stayed firm: most of the 26 covering firms rate it buy, and the consensus target sits nearly 30% above spot. At the same time, the latest session’s flow showed large-lot money as a net seller. The gap between price and consensus target, plus how next week’s PPI and claims data shift rate expectations, is the tension to watch.

*This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.*

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