Valero Energy Corp (VLO) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $140.34, with 6.06 million shares of worth about $849.93 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 3.89% during that period and on July 24, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -4.88%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 313.21M shares, out of which, 311.52M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -2.99% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 3.31%. Year-to-date (YTD), VLO shares are showing a performance of -5.82% which increased to 14.48% 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 3.14 million. The stock is currently trading -2.91% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 2.13% for SMA50 and it goes to 6.65% higher than SMA200.
Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) currently have 313.21M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 86.82% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $43.96B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.01. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 58.19, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.41 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.29 and has Quick Ratio of 1.11 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44. 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 2.37% while standing at 2.57% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Valero Energy Corp (VLO) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 2.46 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.19 and it is 10.18 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.49 which is 3.03 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 1.14 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -14.79% while it is estimated to increase by 38.36% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 13.58% 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 TD Cowen on July 22, 2025 offering a Hold rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $140 to it. Coverage by Citigroup stated Valero Energy Corp (VLO) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on July 16, 2025, suggesting a price target of $150 for the stock. On July 14, 2025, Wolfe Research Downgrade their recommendations, while on June 18, 2025, Evercore ISI Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $135. Stock get a Buy rating from Goldman on May 13, 2025.
