In today’s recent session, 1.85 million shares of the Valero Energy Corp (NYSE:VLO) have been traded, and its beta is 1.00. Most recently the company’s share price was $147.24, and it changed around $3.5 or 2.43% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $46.12B. VLO at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $167.78, offering almost -13.95% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $99.00, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 32.76% since then. We note from Valero Energy Corp’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 3.36 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.25 million.
Valero Energy Corp stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.43. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 22 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 7 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 5 recommended VLO as a Hold, whereas 10 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Valero Energy Corp (NYSE:VLO) trade information
Instantly VLO has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 2.43% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 147.53 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.2%. The company’s shares are currently down -7.10% year-to-date, but still up 9.54% over the last five days. On the other hand, Valero Energy Corp (NYSE:VLO) is 16.05% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 13.03 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 4.72 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $144, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -2.25% from its current value. Analyst projections state that VLO is forecast to be at a low of $127 and a high of $151.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 7.96%. Valero Energy Corp earnings are expected to increase by -18.90% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 13.73% per year for the next five years.
VLO Dividends
Valero Energy Corp’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Apr-24. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 2.99 percent and its annual dividend per share was 4.40. It is important to note, however, that the 2.99% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 4.15 per year.
Valero Energy Corp (NYSE:VLO)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.55% of Valero Energy Corp shares, and 87.32% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 87.80%. Valero Energy Corp stock is held by 1898.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.5636% of the shares, which is about 30.99 million shares worth $4.86 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 8.2848% or 26.84 million shares worth $4.21 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 9.94 shares worth $1.46 billion, making up 3.17% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 8.8 shares worth around $1.3 billion, which represents about 2.81% of the total shares outstanding.
