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Valero Energy Corp (VLO)

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The company owns and operates 18 refineries located in the United States, Canada, and Aruba that produce premium, environmentally clean refined products such as RBOB. It also produces conventional gasolines, distillates, jet fuel, asphalt, petrochemicals.

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Valero Energy Corp At A Glance

Current Price: $18.10
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $18.07
Previous Close: $17.85
Daily Range: $17.83 - $18.29
52-Week Range: $15.29 - $25.00
Volume: 8,816,713
Market Cap: $10.21B
P/E Ratio: 5.01
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Valero Energy Corp (VLO)

Avatar Vet67to82 (99.54) Submitted: 11/25/09 1:32 PM

Industry best refineries capable of handling sour/heavy crude - pay attention to the fact there is a worldwide SHORTAGE of sulfur - needed in medicines, agriculture fertilizers, etc ... and VLO cashes in there too. In a world of PEAK OIL ... VLO is a survivor .. other refineries, currently limited ...More

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Valero Energy Corp (VLO)

Avatar MFBajanCajun (< 20) Submitted: 5/29/09 10:37 AM

Valero is a "merchant refiner." This means that it is not a fully integrated oil company with significant stake in proved oil reserves - rather, it is at the mercy of the marketplace for buying its crude feedstock. When refining margins are good, Valero does well. However, as crude oil prices ris...More

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Avatar alabama4606 (55.98) Submitted: 2/05/10 9:12 AM : Outperform Start Price: $18.05 VLO Score: -0.34

I like the low P/E, good chance to outperform over the next 5 years.

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Avatar solspot (< 20) Submitted: 1/31/10 3:27 PM : Outperform Start Price: $18.66 VLO Score: -2.14

It's recent purchases of ethanol plants and a bottom of the barrel price.

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Avatar AlexisMachine (54.28) Submitted: 1/25/10 9:14 AM : Outperform Start Price: $18.23 VLO Score: 1.73

I like the deep value I see built into this company and it's counterparts in the industry and this one carries an ample 3.3% dividend yield making it even sweeter than many of it's competitors. I have also been reading what the experts have been saying about the terrible prospects and dark times ahead for these companies based on blah, blah blah blah.....these clowns were gassing away about 200-250$ a barrel oil, goldilocks banks and AIG as the investments of the millennium right over the cliff and into the chasm of irreparable capital destruction. Furthermore, I suspect these are the same experts who are surprised by everything that ever happens and have poorer accuracy than even the lowly meteorologists do who can't predict the weather with any more accuracy than I can throwing darts at a board with random forecasts on it. Who pays these jerks anyway, I know of no other business where you can do your job wrong half the time and make six figures for it rather than having your fired ass escorted off the premises. Which brings up another point of contention with know it all experts, who among us is foolish enough to put any faith in the weatherman’s 7 day outlook? Not 1 in 100 that’s who, but many of these same people will take that big dummy AL Gore seriously when he predicts the weather in 50 years from now like complete mongoloids. I'll take the contrarian view against these benighted boobs every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Long on VLO for huge profits.

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Avatar SgtGlenn (26.41) Submitted: 1/21/10 1:33 AM : Underperform Start Price: $19.08 VLO Score: -0.75

Oil refining is just a bad business to be in, particularly for an American company. As refiners go, Valero is up their with the worlds best brands, granted, but buying it today would be like buying GM in 1980. They were up their with the worlds best car brands at the time, but domestic circumstances (union contracts, oil prices, environmental regulations, etc) doomed that company even as automobile sales took off.

Expect other people to refine the worlds oil in the future. It simply cannot be done efficiently in the US, given the political environment. Valero survives because it CAN refine, not because it is better. Once other people can, too, they will have competitive advantages over VLO.

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Avatar clearbranch (< 20) Submitted: 1/19/10 9:34 AM : Outperform Start Price: $17.73 VLO Score: 0.62

Valero should profit handsomely if Obama's fee on foreign oil imports becomes a reality. This fee would be applied to all imports from refiners that do not meet the same environmental requirements the U.S. refiners are exposed to.
The fee would be exempt from U.N. manipulation and should garner support from refiners, Republicans and Democrats,

A win-win scenario. It would put the U.S. on a level playing field with the huge overseas refineries (think India and China) that are coming on line to compete at an unfair advantage over U.S. refiners.

Since Obama is a tax enthusiast this should be a no-brainer as far as refinery investments are concerned.

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