Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) kicked off on Friday, up 3.40% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $175.78. Over the past 52 weeks, VLO has traded in a range of $99.00-$182.99.
It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Energy sector saw sales topped by 7.96%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 14.60%. With a float of $303.28 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $305.01 million.
Valero Energy Corp (VLO) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing Industry. The insider ownership of Valero Energy Corp is 0.56%, while institutional ownership is 84.78%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 18 ’25, was worth 10,483,897.
Valero Energy Corp (VLO) Latest Financial update
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 12/31/2024, the organization reported 0.64 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 0.06) by 0.58. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.47 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 14.60% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 16.40% 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
Take a look at Valero Energy Corp’s (VLO) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.09. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.45. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 14.00.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.80, a number that is poised to hit 3.03 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 12.60 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 2.27 million was inferior to 3.09 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 72.65%.
During the past 100 days, Valero Energy Corp’s (VLO) raw stochastic average was set at 95.92%, which indicates a significant increase from 88.51% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 4.93 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 4.14 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $166.77, while its 200-day Moving Average is $141.14. Now, the first resistance to watch is $185.03. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $188.29. The third major resistance level sits at $192.66. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $177.40, it is likely to go to the next support level at $173.03. The third support level lies at $169.77 if the price breaches the second support level.
Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 55.44 billion has total of 305,010K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 129,881 M in contrast with the sum of 2,770 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 32,168 M and last quarter income was 1,095 M.
