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VLO

Valero Energy Corporation Energy As of 2026-06-18
Quality Weak
Valuation Expensive
Risk Moderate
Active signals Active Top-quintile 6-month momentum
236.3 Close (USD)
-2.25% 60-day
  • Quality is weaker than peers. Operating margin is only around the 45th percentile. TTM ROE is about 17.6%.
  • Valuation is expensive. TTM P/E is in the 70th percentile, above most peers.
  • Recent volatility is moderate. 60-day annualized volatility is near the 60th percentile. Average 20-day dollar volume is about $720.7M.
  • Signals are active now. Top-quintile 6-month momentum currently holds; the tables below show what followed in this stock’s own history.

Factor profile

Factor radar Neutral Valuation
46
ValuationQualityGrowthMomentumRisk / liquidity

Valuation

Indicators in this group are ranked by market percentile; lower valuation and volatility are better.

46 Neutral
TTM P/E 17.16
Pricey
Price / book 2.95
Pricey
Free-cash-flow yield (%) 8.42
Good

Historical evidence

Signals active now

Each active condition is tested against this stock’s own history and benchmarked versus the S&P 500.

Top-quintile 6-month momentum

Active · now 81.44067796610169%

The stock ranks in the top 20% of the liquid US common-stock universe by 126-day adjusted return.

22 historical occurrences (since 2016-12-09)
Average forward return after Top-quintile 6-month momentum。20-day: Win 40.9%, Sample 22, Median -0.78%, Excess -2.3%, Beat mkt rate 36.4%；60-day: Win 60%, Sample 20, Median +0.95%, Excess -5.01%, Beat mkt rate 25%；120-day: Win 38.9%, Sample 18, Median -6.47%, Excess -8.36%, Beat mkt rate 27.8%

120 days after: historical avg -4.37%

20-day -1.01%
60-day -1.39%
120-day -4.37%
20-day
60-day
120-day
Win
40.9%
60%
38.9%
Sample
22
20
18
Median
-0.78%
+0.95%
-6.47%
Excess
-2.3%
-5.01%
-8.36%
Beat mkt rate
36.4%
25%
27.8%

Over 18 occurrences, 120-day forward avg declined 4.37%, lagged the market by 8.36 pts; win rate 38.9%.

Valuation regime and forward returns

Daily TTM P/E is converted into an expanding own-history percentile, then grouped into five valuation regimes. Forward returns use adjusted prices over the next 240 trading days.

PE percentile bandSample days240-day avg returnMedianWin rateAvg excess (vs index)
0-20 413+23.3% +10.4% 76.8% -0.7%
20-40 172-5.6% -9.3% 26.7% -18.3%
40-60 84+37.3% +31.7% 92.9% +22%
60-80 You are here112+89.1% +62% 95.5% +72.9%
80-100 221+73.1% +81.9% 86.9% +58.7%

Quarterly EPS is aligned by SEC filing date before it is forward-filled to daily prices. The expanding percentile uses only information available up to each day.

Current TTM P/E is about 17.16, placing it in the 68.5 own-history percentile, inside the 60-80 bucket.

Valuation × momentum analogs

Each historical day is grouped by own-history P/E tercile and 60-day momentum direction, then tested for the next 120-trading-day adjusted return.

Valuation
Momentum
Cheap (own-history bottom third)
Middle
Expensive (own-history top third)
60-day momentum up
+0.4%
Win rate 52.7% Excess -10.8%
260d
-4.9%
Win rate 36.5% Excess -12.3%
52d
+32.1%
Win rate 95.1% Excess +24.3%
284d
60-day momentum down
+9%
Win rate 69.8% Excess -1.3%
248d
+16.3%
Win rate 39.6% Excess +10.1%
149d
Now
+71.2%
Win rate 90.7% Excess +53.4%
129d

Currently in “Expensive (own-history top third) × 60-day momentum down”: across 129 historical days, 120-day forward avg gained 71.2%, win rate 90.7%, beat the market by 53.4%.

Days = trading days in this bucket; returns use adjusted prices, ex-costs. 60-day momentum: direction of this stock's price over the past 60 trading days.

Market-wide momentum baseline

Across 94,737 liquid US common-stock samples, top-quintile 6-month momentum was followed by an average 60-trading-day return of +6.40%, a 58.3% positive-return rate, and +3.10 percentage points of average excess return versus the S&P 500.

Baseline: weekly samples since 2016 where a liquid US common stock ranked in the top quintile by 126-trading-day momentum. Forward return is 60 trading days; excess return is versus S&P 500 (^GSPC).

Signals not active now

Inactive signals still show the stock-specific historical forward-return distribution for context.

52-week adjusted-price high

Pending

Adjusted close first reaches a 252-trading-day high; repeated hits within 20 days count once.

16 times historically; 60-day forward avg +7.52%, win rate 66.7%, beating the market by +5.66 pts on average.

Filed revenue acceleration

Pending

TTM revenue growth is at least 10% and improved versus the prior filed quarter; event date is the SEC filing date.

5 times historically; 60-day forward avg +2.18%, win rate 20%, beating the market by +7.59 pts on average.

EPS surprise beat

Pending

Reported EPS beat consensus estimate by at least 5%; event date is the earnings-surprise timestamp.

39 times historically; 60-day forward avg +3.96%, win rate 60%, beating the market by +1.07 pts on average.

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Method and limits

  • Returns use us_price:adj_close, adjusted for splits and dividends where available.
  • Excess returns use world_index:^GSPC as the S&P 500 benchmark proxy.
  • Quarterly fundamentals are aligned to SEC filing dates before daily valuation studies.
  • The promoted universe starts from active NYSE/NASDAQ common stocks, then applies price and dollar-volume gates.
  • Snapshot-only tables such as analyst consensus, DCF, us_ratios, and us_key_metrics are intentionally excluded from historical evidence.
  • Overlapping event windows are descriptive distributions, not independent samples.

This page is for historical data analysis and education only. It is not investment advice. Backtests and historical return distributions do not predict future performance; evaluate risk independently before trading.