Valero Energy Corporation vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Valero Energy Corporation trades at $314.47 (market cap $93.03B), while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $369.53. The key difference: Valero Energy Corporation pays a 1.53% dividend while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| VLO | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $93.03B | — |
Sector | Energy | — |
52-Week High | $313.31 | $374.36 |
52-Week Low | $131.77 | $305.74 |
Enterprise Value | $98.79B | — |
Dividend Yield | 1.53% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
Valero Energy is one of the largest independent refiners in the United States. It operates 14 refineries with a total throughput capacity of 3.2 million barrels a day in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Valero also owns 14 ethanol plants with capacity of 1.7 billion gallons of ethanol a year and holds a 50% stake in Diamond Green Diesel, which has capacity to produce 700 million gallons per year of renewable diesel.
Read more on VLO →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable US stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
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