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Valero Energy Corp
Valero Energy Corp (VLO) is listed on NYSE and classified in Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing, part of the Energy sector. It is headquartered in San Antonio, United States and has 9,785 employees. The company is worth $122.74B and trades at 17.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 14.7x. Revenue was $122.69B in fiscal 2025, down 5.5% from the year before. Net income was $2.35B. The share price is 7.6% below its 52-week high of $461.52. It pays a dividend yielding 1.13%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $526.2M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +564.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $6,713.40▲ +571.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $162.79 | $122.59 | $130.00 | $126.86 | $75.11 | $56.57 | $93.65 | $74.97 | $91.91 | $68.32 | $70.71 | $49.50 | $50.40 | $31.19 | $19.24 | $21.13 | $15.31 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 1.1% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 14.7 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 10.1 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Sector median of 8.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Energy, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BPBP PLC | $50.05 | 24.3x | 8.9x | 4.04% | 8.87% | $128.91B |
| MPCMarathon Petroleum Corp | $459.28 | 16.2x | 6.8x | 0.87% | 42.10% | $128.98B |
| PSXPhillips 66 | $284.63 | 16.6x | 3.6x | 1.87% | 23.45% | $114.12B |
| CNQCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES Ltd | $53.92 |
| $19.78 |
| $64.01 |
| P/E | 10.1x | 21.5x | 14.3x | 5.2x | 4.4x | 33.1x | — | 16.0x | 10.3x | 10.0x | 13.8x | 8.8x | 7.2x | 10.1x | 8.3x | 5.2x | 40.6x | — | — | 7.9x |
| P/S | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.4x | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| P/B | 1.5x | 2.1x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 2.0x | 1.7x | 1.2x | 1.8x | 1.4x | 1.8x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.0x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 0.6x | 0.7x | — |
| EPS | $7.57 | $8.58 | $24.92 | $29.04 | $2.27 | -$3.50 | $5.84 | $7.29 | $9.16 | $4.94 | $7.99 | $6.85 | $4.97 | $3.75 | $3.68 | $0.52 | -$3.35 | -$1.97 | $8.12 |
| Dividend yield | 3.05% | 2.78% | 3.49% | 3.14% | 3.09% | 5.22% | 6.93% | 3.84% | 4.27% | 3.05% | 3.51% | 2.40% | 2.12% | 1.65% | 1.91% | 1.43% | 0.87% | 3.58% | 2.63% | 0.69% |
| Payout | 25.92% | 59.71% | 49.88% | 16.37% | 13.50% | 172.69% | — | 61.64% | 43.90% | 30.57% | 48.58% | 21.28% | 15.33% | 16.76% | 15.84% | 7.45% | 35.09% | — | — | 5.41% |
| Profit margin | 2.45% | 1.91% | 2.13% | 6.10% | 6.54% | 0.82% | -2.19% | 2.24% | 2.67% | 4.33% | 3.03% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| ROE | 11.49% | 9.90% | 11.30% | 33.53% | 48.93% | 5.05% | -7.56% | 11.11% | 14.41% | 18.48% | 11.43% | 19.44% | 17.56% | 13.98% | 11.55% | 12.73% | 2.16% | -13.46% | -7.24% | — |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-49.1% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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