Valero Energy Corp
NYSE: VLO
$136.69
+$0.58 (+0.4%)
Closing Price on November 8, 2024
VLO Articles
The refining industry has been under pressure for some time. It seems that rising prices were not a shoe-in for windfall profits at all. A rapid drop in oil prices was also not a recipe for...
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Toward the end of 2008 (and even sooner), ethanol may have seemed like a fad that came and went. Then came the dull year of 2009 that seemed as though it would yield little. Yet ethanol stocks...
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The notion that an integrated oil giant is issuing an earnings warning with oil above $80.00 per barrel may seem ludicrous to most on the Street. Yet that is exactly what is happening at Chevron...
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These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Aqua America (NYSE: WTR) Cut to Neutral at Macquarie. Brinker International (NYSE:...
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This week was the crest of 2009 third quarter earnings season. We still have a flood of reports next week and picking a mere top ten earnings to watch was very unfair to many key stocks. But the...
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These are this Friday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street’s research calls: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to Outperform at FBR Capital...
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We are starting to see some elevated options trading that appeared on the unusual volume screens. Many of these are pre-earnings trading and some are on other expectations. We have more detailed...
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These are this Wednesday’s top early-bird analyst downgrades and cautious research calls out of Wall Street: Agco Corp. (AGCO) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. Apartment Investment & Management...
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Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) did manage to beat earnings, at least if you consider a two-penny beat versus a wide loss after a warning as a beat. The refiner’s loss came to -$0.48 EPS versus...
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Oil exploration and refining companies are natural enemies of alternative energy. Wind power, nuclear power, clean coal, and solar could all undermine the value of crude in world markets. Oil...
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Reuters: GM will accept product liability on cars it has built in the past. Reuters: Obama could consider a second stimulus if necessary. Reuters: Rising office availability in NYC is...
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We keep getting asked a single question from readers and from our own industry and professional contacts: Are Oil Stocks Cheap? There is a very simple answer in today’s markets: Oil stocks look...
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Reuters: Fiat closed its deal for control of Chrysler. Reuters: California may be hit by an economic “meltdown.” Reuters: May foreclosures were third highest month ever recorded....
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Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) may have caused some irreparable harm to itself and to shareholders this week. Losing money is just not something that the investing public was ready to stomach. ...
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A (very) small cap ethanol producer, Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE), has agreed to buy two ethanol plants formerly owned by now-bankrupt VeraSun Energy Corp. The owner of the...
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