VLO Valero Energy Corporation
Trend channel, buy level and 3-month target. Information only, not financial advice.
Inside the channel · 12-month channel rising
Price is between the lines.
- 9-month channel
- US$433.06 – US$498.07 · rising, more than +100% a year
- 12-month channel read from
- US$361.40 – US$485.39 · rising, more than +100% a year
- Price in channel
- 31% (0% = floor, 100% = ceiling)
- Ceiling overhead
- US$485.39
- Turns bearish below
- US$361.40
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
Updated 2:50 PM ET (45 h ago)
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (9 months)
- Lower trend line (9 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$396.29
level as at 1 Nov 2026
Our target
US$443.84
by 23 Nov 2026
Projected move
12.0%
gross, before costs
Price is between our buy and target.
Target: VLO's usual move size (12.0%), the best return per day on this path.
This move size: reached in 44% of 11 past stretches, typically in 23 days. (0.52% per day)
- Upper line touches
- 3
- Lower line touches
- 3
- Fit confidence
- 68%
- Fitted
- 1 Nov 2026
Company information
About Valero Energy Corporation
Valero Energy Corporation functions as a global producer and marketer of transportation fuels and petrochemicals, with operations spanning the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and other international territories. The company organizes its business across three primary divisions: Refining, Renewable Diesel, and Ethanol. Its Refining segment generates a wide array of products, including various types of gasoline (conventional, premium, reformulated, and California Air Resources Board-compliant), diverse diesel fuels (low-sulfur, ultra-low-sulfur, and CARB diesel), jet fuels, blendstocks, asphalts, petrochemicals, and lubricants. This division also handles the sale of lube oils and natural gas liquids. As of the end of 2021, Valero managed 15 petroleum refineries, boasting a combined daily processing capacity of approximately 3.2 million barrels of crude oil. The Ethanol division comprises 12 plants, capable of producing around 1.6 billion gallons of ethanol annually. These facilities also yield co-products such as dry distiller grains, syrup, and inedible corn oil, which are largely supplied to animal feed markets. Valero distributes its refined goods through wholesale rack and bulk channels, in addition to approximately 7,000 branded retail stations operating under names like Valero, Beacon, Diamond Shamrock, Shamrock, Ultramar, and Texaco. Furthermore, Valero contributes to renewable energy production by owning and operating a facility dedicated to converting animal fats, used cooking oils, and inedible distillers corn oils into renewable diesel. Supporting its extensive operations, the company maintains a comprehensive logistics network that includes crude oil and refined product pipelines, storage terminals, tanks, marine docks, and truck rack bays. Originally established in 1980 as Valero Refining and Marketing Company, the firm adopted its current name, Valero Energy Corporation, in August 1997. Its corporate headquarters are situated in San Antonio, Texas.
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing
- CEO
- R. Lane Riggs
- Employees
- 9,785
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own scores from the fundamentals below (not Morningstar ratings).
- Valuation
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- Profitability
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- Financial health
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- Cash generation
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$116.98B
- Enterprise value
- —
- Beta
- 0.57
- Avg volume
- 3.08M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
- —
- 52-week range
- 155.29-419.04
- Exchange
- NYSE
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
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- PEG
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- Price / sales
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- Price / book
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- EV / EBITDA
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- Gross margin
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- Operating margin
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- Net margin
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- Current ratio
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- Quick ratio
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- Debt / equity
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- Interest cover
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Income statement
Balance sheet
Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted to past swing highs and lows and may not continue. Information only, not financial advice.