A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) stock price down -2.97% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $126.80. VLO’s price has ranged from $116.84 to $184.79 over the past 52 weeks.
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Energy Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 12.44% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -8.77%. With a float of $313.26 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $314.86 million.
The firm has a total of 9922 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 3.55%, operating margin of 2.8%, and the pretax margin is 2.85%.
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 0.54%, while institutional ownership is 84.50%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 18 ’25, was worth 10,483,897. Before that another transaction happened on May 09 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 720 for $158.12, making the entire transaction worth $113,850. This insider now owns 13,314 shares in total.
Valero Energy Corp (VLO) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.75 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -8.77% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 21.69% during the next five years compared to 7.96% 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 1.03. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.30. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 6.71.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.49, a number that is poised to hit 0.93 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 11.15 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 4.19 million was better than the volume posted last year of 3.31 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 39.10%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.89.
During the past 100 days, Valero Energy Corp’s (VLO) raw stochastic average was set at 22.23%, which indicates a significant increase from 16.67% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 32.48% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 32.00% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $132.04, while its 200-day Moving Average is $139.96. Now, the first resistance to watch is $126.77. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $130.52. The third major resistance level sits at $132.56. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $120.98, it is likely to go to the next support level at $118.94. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $115.19.
Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 38.75 billion, the company has a total of 314,978K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 129,881 M while annual income is 2,770 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 30,756 M while its latest quarter income was 281,000 K.
