Valmont Industries, Inc. (VMI)

Structures, irrigation equipment and galvanizing, 58% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 125 of the 198 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Valmont’s 10,791 employees, 6,294 in the U.S., make utility and lighting structures, center pivot irrigation equipment and galvanized coatings, split by the segments’ revenue by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 18% now, 26% at the end of 2027, 30% at the end of 2028, 31% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 31% desk work, 13% people work and 56% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 69% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 25% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

10,791 employees as of December 27, 2025 (stated). 6,294 of 10,791 employees are in the U.S. and 4,497 international, by the filing.

The filing: “As of December 27, 2025, we had a total of 10,791 employees. As of December 27, 2025, we employed 6,294 individuals in the U.S. and 4,497 internationally.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 10,791 employees, 6,294 in the U.S. and 4,497 international; key skills engineering, welding, equipment maintenance and complex machinery; a U.K. pension plan covering about 5,000 former employees.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK, 23,000 employees)17% now, 28% by 2028
• Ball Corporation (BALL, 16,000 employees)18% now, 28% by 2028
• Greif, Inc. (GEF, 14,000 employees)16% now, 26% by 2028
• BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT, 10,400 employees)18% now, 34% by 2028
• Arcosa, Inc. (ACA, 6,390 employees)17% now, 26% by 2028
• Silgan Holdings Inc. (SLGN)17% now, 27% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

8 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI eight times: data center construction driven by AI as a demand source, and AI among the technologies it must invest in and the risks it presents.

• “In addition, demand from data center construction is increasing as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and digitalization drive the need for reliable power infrastructure, transmission capacity, and grid resiliency to support energy-intensive facilities.”
• “To remain competitive, we must invest in our manufacturing capabilities, product development, customer service, and our information technology systems and networks, including artificial intelligence.”
• “The use of artificial intelligence presents risks and challenges that may adversely impact our business and operating results.”
• “We may adopt and integrate generative artificial intelligence and machine learning (collectively, "AI") tools into our operations to enhance efficiencies and streamline existing systems.”
• “However, the development, implementation, and 15 Table of Contents maintenance of AI tools may entail substantial risks.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 202110median 0
• Fiscal 202210median 0
• Fiscal 20235median 1
• Fiscal 20242median 4
• Fiscal 20258median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The Index’s 6,294 was the U.S. count alone; the filing states 10,791 in total (rule 2).
• No count by segment; the split follows the segments’ revenue by description, the coatings share by description.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000102729-26-000007, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.