Valero Energy Corp (VLO) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $127.80, with 4.22 million shares of worth about $539.79 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -8.82% during that period and on May 21, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -3.34%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 313.20M shares, out of which, 311.52M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -4.85% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 13.64%. Year-to-date (YTD), VLO shares are showing a performance of 4.25% which decreased to -23.04% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $99.00 but also hit the highest price of $167.78 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Valero Energy Corp shares is 3.63 million. The stock is currently trading 3.45% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 4.48% for SMA50 and it goes to -3.32% lower than SMA200.
Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) currently have 313.20M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 86.87% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $40.03B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.96. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 45.06, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.84 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.99 and has Quick Ratio of 1.09 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46. 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 1.95% while standing at 2.86% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -20.97% while it is estimated to increase by 50.64% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 15.07% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 7.96% 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 Goldman on May 13, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $154 to it. Coverage by Goldman stated Valero Energy Corp (VLO) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on April 28, 2025, suggesting a price target of $127 for the stock. On April 25, 2025, TD Cowen Reiterated their recommendations, while on October 25, 2024, TD Cowen Reiterated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $140. Stock get a Neutral rating from BofA Securities on October 17, 2024.
