Currently, there are 313.20M common shares owned by the public and among those 311.51M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 10.60% and 42.01% over the past three months. VLO shares are trading -6.20% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 21.27% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $99.00 and touched a high of $167.78 over the same period. VLO has an average intraday trading volume of 3.25 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 7.98%, 13.92%, and 13.55% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) shares accounts for 86.85% of the company’s 313.20M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $46.56B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.00. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 52.42, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.84. The company has a PEG of 3.81 and a Quick Ratio of 1.09 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.46. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.22% over the week and 2.64% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -19.09%, and 45.66% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 13.76% over the next five years, compared to 7.96% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the VLO, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Evercore ISI stated their In-line rating for the stock in a research note on June 18, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $135. Goldman coverage for the Valero Energy Corp (VLO) stock in a research note released on May 13, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $154. Goldman was of a view on April 28, 2025 that the stock is Neutral, while TD Cowen gave the stock Buy rating on April 25, 2025, issuing a price target of $121- $118. TD Cowen on their part issued Buy rating on October 25, 2024.
