With 1.6 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.76 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $142.985 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $140.72. The 52-week range on VLO shows that it touched its highest point at $184.79 and its lowest point at $120.21 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $153.24. With its current market cap of 44.67 billion, VLO has annualized dividend of $4.28 while the current yield stands at 3.03%. VLO paid its most recent dividend on 1732060800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732060800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.39.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of VLO was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.78%, but this was up by 6.19% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.26% while six-month performance fell -13.20%. The stock gained 14.57% in the past year, while it has gained 8.55% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VLO yields 11.15 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.61. For the next quarter, that number is 0.72. This implies an EPS growth rate of -65.60% for this year and 12.15% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -9.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 27.90%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 333.30 million VLO shares are outstanding with a float of 314.94 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 13.98 million, which was 442.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Joseph W. Gorder as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. R. Lane Riggs serves as its CEO, President & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.83889997 of VLO’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, VLO reported revenue of $32876000000.0 and operating income of $507000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1315000000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.14.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VLO since 18 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 14 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With VLO analysts setting a high price target of 176.0 and a low target of 123.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 150.59. Based on these targets, VLO could surge 24.73% to reach the target high and fall by -12.83% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 6.72% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $12.1484 being high and $7.79802 being low. For VLO, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $8.5663. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $2.6. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.97 and the low estimate is $0.52. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.58.
