Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) on Friday, plunged -0.90% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $134.29. Within the past 52 weeks, VLO’s price has moved between $116.84 and $184.79.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Energy sector saw sales topped by 12.45%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -9.06%. With a float of $313.82 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $316.58 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 9908 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 4.36%, operating margin of 3.6%, and the pretax margin is 3.66%.
Valero Energy Corp (VLO) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Valero Energy Corp is 0.53%, while institutional ownership is 85.31%. 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) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.65 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -9.06% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 20.62% during the next five years compared to 7.97% 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 1.03 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 0.32. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.03.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.48, a number that is poised to hit 1.01 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 10.93 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Valero Energy Corp (VLO)
The latest stats from [Valero Energy Corp, VLO] show that its last 5-days average volume of 3.5 million was superior to 3.16 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 35.81%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.80.
During the past 100 days, Valero Energy Corp’s (VLO) raw stochastic average was set at 55.45%, which indicates a significant increase from 13.08% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 42.34% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 32.04% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $131.63, while its 200-day Moving Average is $143.02. Now, the first resistance to watch is $134.68. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $136.27. The third major resistance level sits at $137.12. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $132.24, it is likely to go to the next support level at $131.39. The third support level lies at $129.80 if the price breaches the second support level.
Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 42.13 billion based on 316,585K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 129,881 M and income totals 2,770 M. The company made 30,756 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 281,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
