An Energy Stock Raising Its Dividend?

Think it's all bad in the energy sector? It seems every oil-related stock is dropping like a rock. Dividends are being cut and the price of oil just keeps falling. To buy an oil stock now would be like trying to catch the proverbial falling knife.

However, Valero Energy Corp (VLO) yesterday announced a 20% increase in their dividend. The company named for the mission San Antonio de Valero (the original name of the Alamo), is the world's largest independent oil refiner. It doesn't drill for oil, it produces gasoline. It makes money no matter what the price of oil is.

Valero's revenue has fallen off. The most recent quarter was down 34% year-over-year. But earnings over the past seven quarters have increased 32%, 27%, 251%, 3%, 21%, 118%, and 40% respectively. That's an Earnings-Per-Share growth rate of 36%. The Return On Equity (ROE) is 17% and the P/E is down to 7. The stock has a Relative Strength of 93, meaning it is outperforming 93% of the stocks in the S&P 500. The number of funds holding VLO has increased from 1856 to 2014 over the past year.

While most of the rest of the market has been dropping, Valero stock has been working upwards within an up-trending channel.

The stock has fallen to the bottom of the channel, coinciding with the 200-day moving average, and the stochastics indicator is dropping to the oversold area and may soon produce another ‘buy' signal (these have worked out pretty well in the past year).

Consider VLO's seasonal tendencies. For the next 14 weeks, VLO has averaged a 16.8% gain, and had a gain in 21 out of the past 22 years. Most of those were double-digit gains.

Let's take a closer look at their dividend. Valero's dividend currently equals a 3.7% yield. They have increased their dividend for five years in a row, and the dividend growth rate over that time averaged 56%. The dividend, at $0.05 per share per quarter back in 2011, is now up to $0.60 a share per quarter.

Valero is due to announce their Q4 2015 earnings on January 28th, before the open. Anyone considering re-entering the energy sector might want to watch for their earnings release and see how the market reacts. VLO, especially with dividend reinvestment, could turn out to be a good long-term investment. Of course, any investment in the energy sector carries higher risk right now. So a prudent trader or investor, considering adding a position in VLO, would consider only a small position to start, adding to it as the market improves and the stock logs regular gains and holds them.

Of course, there's much more you need to know and many more stocks you can capitalize upon each and every day.  To find out more, please click on the following link: www.markettamer.com/seasonal

By Gregg Harris, MarketTamer Chief Technical Strategist

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