secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     VALERO ENERGY CORP/TX (VLO)
CIK:        0001035002
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-07-30T12:15:29+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-26-050822
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Valero Q2 net income $3.7B ($12.62/sh) vs $714M a year ago; all segments strong
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- Refining operating income $4.5B vs $1.3B YoY; throughput 3.0M bpd.
- Renewable Diesel operating income $717M vs loss of $79M YoY; sales 3.8M gal/day.
- Ethanol operating income $318M vs $54M YoY; production 4.7M gal/day.
- Stockholder cash returns $2.6B; quarterly dividend raised to $1.20/sh.
- St. Charles FCC optimization ($230M) on track for Q3 2026 completion.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035002/000162828026050822/0001628280-26-050822-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035002/000162828026050822/vlo-20260730.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-050822

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