Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $135.68, with 3.02 million shares of worth about $410.26 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -24.78% during that period and on October 02, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -1.30%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 333.30M shares, out of which, 318.66M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 2.16% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -4.02%. Year-to-date (YTD), VLO shares are showing a performance of 4.37% which decreased to -1.75% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $119.88 but also hit the highest price of $184.79 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Valero Energy Corp. shares is 2.78 million. The stock is currently trading 0.28% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -5.47% for SMA50 and it goes to -8.88% lower than SMA200.
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Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) currently have 333.30M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 83.69% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $43.47B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.37. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 7.75, while it has posted earnings per share of $17.50 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.04 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.42. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for VLO, volatility over the week remained 3.21% while standing at 2.87% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -59.22% while it is estimated to increase by 12.74% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of -13.50% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 27.90% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Piper Sandler on September 20, 2024 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $169 and $123 to it. Coverage by Wolfe Research stated Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on July 18, 2024, suggesting a price target of $177 for the stock. Stock get a Buy rating from TD Cowen on April 29, 2024.
