Highlights: Valero Energy Corporation

  • The company is one of the most undervalued, with an "enterprise value to sales" ratio at 0.41 for the 2025 fiscal year.
  • Given the positive cash flows generated by its business, the company's valuation level is an asset.
  • Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
  • Analyst opinion has improved significantly over the past four months.
  • Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
  • The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.
  • Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.

Weaknesses: Valero Energy Corporation

  • According to Standard & Poor's' forecast, revenue growth prospects are expected to be very low for the next fiscal years.
  • The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
  • The company does not generate enough profits, which is an alarming weak point.
  • The company benefits from high valuations in earnings multiples.
  • For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
  • For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
  • For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
  • Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.

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Average 11.13TCr
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