A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) stock price down -1.39% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $144.01. VLO’s price has ranged from $120.21 to $184.79 over the past 52 weeks.
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Energy Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 13.02% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -65.60%. With a float of $314.94 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. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 4.37%, operating margin of 3.6%, and the pretax margin is 3.66%.
Valero Energy Corp (VLO) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing Industry. The insider ownership of Valero Energy Corp is 0.52%, while institutional ownership is 83.61%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 09 ’24, was worth 113,850. In this transaction Director of this company sold 720 shares at a rate of $158.12, taking the stock ownership to the 13,314 shares.
Valero Energy Corp (VLO) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -65.60% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will plunge by -9.00% 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
Here are Valero Energy Corp’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 1.11. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.33. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.50.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 11.15, a number that is poised to hit 0.72 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.61 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 2.42 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 2.95 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 85.00%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.70.
During the past 100 days, Valero Energy Corp’s (VLO) raw stochastic average was set at 36.68%, which indicates a significant decrease from 84.25% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 27.04% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 32.50% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $136.15, while its 200-day Moving Average is $149.73. Now, the first resistance to watch is $144.06. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $146.12. The third major resistance level sits at $147.54. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $140.58, it is likely to go to the next support level at $139.16. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $137.10.
Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 44.96 billion, the company has a total of 316,585K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 144,766 M while annual income is 8,835 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 32,876 M while its latest quarter income was 364,000 K.
