Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) is 11.88% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $116.84 and a high of $184.79 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The VLO stock was last observed hovering at around $138.19 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -1.04%.
Currently trading at $137.15, the stock is 0.25% and 4.55% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 3.46 million and changing -0.75% at the moment leaves the stock -3.42% off its SMA200. VLO registered -3.41% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -8.46%.
The stock witnessed a -2.76% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -2.05%, and is 0.19% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.38% over the week and 3.54% over the month.
Valero Energy Corp (VLO) has around 9908 employees, a market worth around $43.42B and $129.81B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 16.17 and Fwd P/E is 12.54. Profit margin for the company is 2.13%. Distance from 52-week low is 17.38% and -25.78% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (8.07%).
with sales reaching $28.95B over the same period.The EPS is expected to shrink by -9.06% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -6.62% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -8.84% in year-over-year returns.
The shares outstanding are 316.58M, and float is at 314.55M with Short Float at 3.94%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 30.99 million shares valued at $4.86 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 9.3614 of the VLO Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 26.84 million shares valued at $4.21 billion to account for 8.1096 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 22.59 million shares representing 6.8244 and valued at over $3.54 billion, while CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC holds 3.0926 of the shares totaling 10.24 million with a market value of $1.6 billion.
Valero Energy Corp (VLO) Insider Activity
Valero Energy Corp disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on May 09 ’24 that Greene Kimberly S, (Director) sold a total of 720 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on May 09 ’24 and was made at $158.12 per share for $0.11 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 13314.0 shares of the VLO stock.
