Is it safe?
Can VLO take a bad year?
Valero Energy carries $3.48B of net debt at 0.30× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$3.48B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.30×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.57× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 17.8×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 38%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $11.3B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $7.87B
- Net debt
- $3.48B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $11.7B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $10.0B
- Debt / equity
- 0.45×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.97×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 38%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −72%
- Below its 52-week high
- −0.56%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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