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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Valmont Industries (VMI)

Valmont Industries Q4 EPS rises to $3.84; FY 2024 record EPS $17.19, 2025 outlook given

Positive Impact 3 of 5 earnings Written later

Valmont reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 results. Q4 diluted EPS rose to $3.84 from $1.38 and net sales rose 2.1% to $1.04 billion, while full-year net sales fell 2.4% to $4.08 billion and diluted EPS rose to $17.19 from $6.78. The company also guided 2025 diluted EPS to $17.20 to $18.80 on net sales of $4.0 to $4.2 billion, a range that brackets the prior year's level.

Key points

  • Q4 2024 net sales rose 2.1% to $1.04 billion; operating income was $120.0 million, or 11.6% of net sales, versus $63.5 million a year earlier
  • Full-year 2024 diluted EPS was $17.19 versus $6.78 in 2023, which included a $140.8 million goodwill and intangible impairment in 2023
  • 2025 outlook: net sales of $4.0 to $4.2 billion and diluted EPS of $17.20 to $18.80, excluding any effect from proposed additional U.S. tariffs on Mexico and Canada
  • Operating cash flow rose 86.7% to $572.7 million for the full year; Moody's upgraded the company's credit rating to Baa2

The filing

CompanyValmont Industries (VMI)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECFeb 18, 2025, 7:14 AM ET
Accession number0000102729-25-000005

Items reported: 2.02 Results of Operations

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 12:57 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on February 18, 2025.

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