Valero just notched a fresh 52-week high at $424.10, 1.14% above the record it set only two days earlier. The refiner has roughly tripled off its $156.76 low from a year ago, and the $122.1 billion market cap keeps stretching.
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A 3.8% pre-market jump adds roughly $3.7 billion to a $99 billion refiner, an outsized single-session move for a name this size. Whether the gain holds into the regular session is the thing to watch at $342.92.
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