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10/10/2008 4:01 PM

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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Avatar TheGarcipian (98.67) Submitted: 5/31/07 10:33 PM : Outperform Start Price: $74.14 VLO Score: -32.83

I'm attracted to this stock for the same reasons as I am towards XOM, RDC, DO, and HERO: energy demands. Valero is almost as attractive as Diamond Offshore and Rowan in that it has a great PEG ratio of only 0.37, a low P/E (trailing=8.1; forward=9.7), and good RoA (15%) and RoE (34%). It's profit & operating margins aren't as good (6.4% and 9.4%, respectively), but its debt load (26%) is low for this indusrty and is comparable to these other energy stocks that have done well (and I believe will continue to do well).

SOURCE: Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=VLO

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