Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) on Monday, soared 1.23% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $163.89. Within the past 52 weeks, VLO’s price has moved between $104.18 and $184.79.
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Energy Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 13.02% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -31.60%. With a float of $330.75 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $333.30 million.
The firm has a total of 9908 workers. Let’s measure their productivity.
Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Valero Energy Corp. is 0.52%, while institutional ownership is 79.91%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 14 ’23, was worth 10,278,389. In this transaction Director of this company sold 75,580 shares at a rate of $135.99, taking the stock ownership to the 621,872 shares.
Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) Earnings and Forecasts
As on 12/31/2023, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported $3.55 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at $2.96) by $0.59. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 5.48 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -31.60% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will plunge by -5.50% during the next five years compared to 27.90% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) Trading Performance Indicators
Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.11 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.38. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 6.63.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 24.74, a number that is poised to hit 3.22 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 14.53 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Valero Energy Corp. (VLO)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Valero Energy Corp., VLO], we can find that recorded value of 2.46 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 3.34 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 16.22%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.52.
During the past 100 days, Valero Energy Corp.’s (VLO) raw stochastic average was set at 70.75%, which indicates a significant increase from 20.63% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 23.46% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 25.99% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $158.51, while its 200-day Moving Average is $137.19. Now, the first resistance to watch is $168.01. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $170.12. The third major resistance level sits at $172.94. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $163.07, it is likely to go to the next support level at $160.25. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $158.14.
Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 55.16 billion based on 332,482K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 144,766 M and income totals 8,835 M. The company made 35,414 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 1,202 M in sales during its previous quarter.
