Valero Energy Corporation

VLO Energy Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing

Valero Energy Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $122.7 billion, down 5.54% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 48.8%, EPS grew 453.5%, free cash flow grew 871.1% and total debt rose 6.59%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years.

444.71 0.65 +0.15%
Market cap
$127.9B
P/E
18.4×
Fwd P/E
8.3×
Dividend yield
1.06%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
4.60
Beneish M
−2.94
Dividend safety
62/100

Valero Energy Corporation (VLO) Free cash flow margin

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Valero Energy Corporation's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 6.73%, up 3.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (3.29%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −2.25% (fiscal 2020) to 5.61% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing industry median of 4.25% and in line with the Energy sector median of 6.79%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 3.29% (0.33)
FY2024 3.62% (1.47)
FY2023 5.09% (0.52)
FY2022 5.61% 2.38
FY2021 3.23% 5.48
FY2020 −2.25% (5.52)
FY2019 3.27% 1.03
FY2018 2.24% (1.57)
FY2017 3.81% (0.87)
FY2016 4.68% 0.13

Against its own ten years

Low −2.25% High 5.61%
Ten-year median 3.62%
Current reading's percentile 45

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
MPC Marathon Petroleum Corporation compare 9.05%
DINO HF Sinclair Corporation compare 7.19%
VLO Valero Energy Corporation 6.73%
UGP Ultrapar Participacoes S.A. compare 5.52%
CVI CVR Energy Inc. compare 4.26%
SUN Sunoco LP compare 4.25%
PSX Phillips 66 compare 4.20%
PBF PBF Energy Inc. compare 2.66%
IEP Icahn Enterprises L.P. compare −2.37%
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing industry median 4.25%
Energy sector median 6.79%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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