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NYSE · Petroleum Refining · CIK 0001035002
$370.72
+5.21% · delayed 15 min
$116.77B market value
What this company does
VALERO ENERGY /TX refines oil into fuel and related products. It took in $122.69B last year, which makes it a very large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 2 cents is left as profit.
Recent open-market selling by 3 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$5.7M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From VALERO ENERGY CORP/TX's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K
Deteriorated: -5.5%
$129.88B to $122.69B
Deteriorated: -15.2%
$2.77B to $2.35B
Improved: -5.3%
332.5M to 315.0M
It makes a profit rather than burning through money.
$2.35B earned last year
Day-to-day operations generate real cash, not just accounting profit.
$5.83B cash from operations
Its debt is small next to the cash the business produces.
about 0.8 years of cash flow to clear
A widely used bankruptcy-risk model places it well clear of distress.
Altman Z 5.69
Sales are shrinking rather than growing.
down 5.5% on last year
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Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 3.1% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 2 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $2.35B last year.
What it earns, what it keeps, and what it costs to run — all from the same filing
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 60 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 24% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodFigures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $2.35B and generated $5.83B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Gifted shares — 3,104 shares
Holds 97,091 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 7,500 shares at $268.17 ($2.0M)
Holds 19,742 shares after this filing.
Go deeper
Every figure above traces back to one of these filings.
Straight from SEC EDGAR — the original source for every figure above
| Filing | Filed | Covers to |
|---|---|---|
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2026-07-30 | 2026-06-30 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-07-30 | 2026-07-30 |
Financial figures are from VLO's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
6 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
5.69
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
4 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
No. Sales shrank 5.5% last year.
No. Its borrowings would take under a year of cash flow to clear. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.69 in assets.
Expensive. Investors pay $49.7 for every $1 of yearly profit, so a lot of future growth is already priced in.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
At a glance
Sold on the open market — 7,500 shares at $236.90 ($1.8M)
Holds 27,242 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 7,500 shares at $251.61 ($1.9M)
Holds 34,742 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 8,386 shares ($2.5M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Employment related.
Filed notice to sell 7,500 shares ($2.0M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Grants.
Filed notice to sell 7,500 shares ($1.8M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Filed notice to sell 7,500 shares ($1.9M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
| Major event announcement(8-K) |
| 2026-07-16 |
| 2026-07-16 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-05-08 | 2026-05-07 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2026-04-30 | 2026-03-31 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-04-30 | 2026-04-30 |
| Shareholder voting information(DEF 14A) | 2026-03-19 | 2026-05-07 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-03-09 | 2026-03-05 |
| Annual report(10-K) | 2026-02-25 | 2025-12-31 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-01-29 | 2026-01-29 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-10-29 | 2025-10-28 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2025-10-23 | 2025-09-30 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-10-23 | 2025-10-23 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-10-16 | 2025-10-16 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-09-19 | 2025-09-18 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2025-07-24 | 2025-06-30 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-07-24 | 2025-07-24 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-05-09 | 2025-05-06 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2025-04-24 | 2025-03-31 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-04-24 | 2025-04-24 |
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