VALERO ENERGY CORP/TX
At today's price, VALERO ENERGY CORP/TX (VLO) is priced for +17.1% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- Valero is the largest independent US refiner, with refining at about 95% of the business and smaller renewable diesel and ethanol arms. Q1 2026 was a sharp upswing: EPS of $4.22 beat the $3.16 consensus by a third, refining operating income hit $1.81 billion, and renewable diesel swung to a $139 million profit from a year-earlier loss. - The model the price embeds is more demanding than a refiner's history would suggest. At $236.46 the market is paying roughly 18 times operating income, which
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1,812 institutional managers reported holding VLO in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 83% of the company; the top 10 hold 45%. 330 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 11.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
VLO has cut its share count 26.8% over the past five years, spending $15.89B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 3 years straight; the current rate is $4.52 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $3.85B in dividends and $8.91B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at VLO over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 16 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
VLO's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | +2.3% | +9.8% |
| 2023-10-27 | -2.6% | +5.2% |
| 2024-02-23 | +6.0% | +17.1% |
| 2024-04-26 | -0.7% | -5.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
VLO's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-08 (items 5.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-09 (items 1.01, 9.01); 2026-01-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-10-29 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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