Valero Energy Corporation: 10-K Risk Factor Changes

2026 vs 2025  ·  SEC EDGAR  ·  2026-05-22
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Valero Energy consolidated its insurance-related disclosures by removing separate severe weather and insurance coverage risks while adding a unified risk focused on inadequate insurance protection against potential losses and liabilities. The company substantially revised 13 risks including heightened emphasis on margin volatility tied to feedstock and product pricing, expanded cybersecurity and data privacy exposure, and intensified climate and sustainability litigation risks. These changes reflect a shift toward consolidating insurance-related concerns while broadening disclosure around market price sensitivity, regulatory compliance costs, and environmental accountability pressures.

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🟢 New in Current Filing

We do not maintain insurance coverage that fully protects against all potential losses and liabilities.

We are subject to various hazards and other incidents common to the industry, including explosions, fires, toxic emissions, transportation hazards, severe weather events, and natural disasters/acts of nature (including, in certain locations, earthquakes), among others. While we…

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We are subject to various hazards and other incidents common to the industry, including explosions, fires, toxic emissions, transportation hazards, severe weather events, and natural disasters/acts of nature (including, in certain locations, earthquakes), among others. While we maintain insurance coverage in amounts and types that we believe are prudent, such coverage protects against some, but not all, potential losses and liabilities arising from such hazards and incidents, and we have experienced, and may again experience, certain uninsured or self-insured events related thereto. Market, industry, and other developments have also caused, and may again cause, adverse changes in the costs, terms, and availability of certain amounts or types of coverage. If we incur a significant loss or liability that is not adequately insured, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.

🔴 No Match in Current Filing We are subject to risks arising from severe weather events. 🔒
🔴 No Match in Current Filing Our ability to adequately insure losses or liabilities arising from various hazards exposes us to risks. 🔒
🟡 Modified Our financial results are affected by volatile margins, which are dependent upon factors beyond our control, including the prices we pay to acquire feedstocks and the market prices at which we can sell our products. 🔒
🟡 Modified Data privacy and security issues expose us to increased liability and operational changes and costs. 🔒
🟡 Modified We are subject to risks arising from litigation, government action, and mandatory disclosure rules related to climate- and other sustainability-related matters, or aimed at the fossil fuel industry. 🔒
🟡 Modified Industry, market, and other developments could decrease the demand for our products. 🔒
🟡 Modified We are subject to risks arising from the availability and prices of natural gas, electricity, and water. 🔒
🟡 Modified The availability and prices of our feedstocks and other critical supplies expose us to risks. 🔒
🟡 Modified We are subject to risks arising from the Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs, and other regulations, policies, international certifications, and standards impacting low-carbon fuels. 🔒
🟡 Modified We are subject to risks arising from our operations and business activities outside of the U.S. 🔒
🟡 Modified We are subject to risks arising from climate- and other sustainability-related advocacy and pressure. 🔒
🟡 Modified We are subject to risks arising from legal, regulatory, and political developments regarding climate- and environmental-related matters, or that are adverse to or restrict refining and marketing operations. 🔒
🟡 Modified Differences in competitors’ businesses or resources may at times provide them a competitive advantage. 🔒
🟡 Modified Our pursuit of capital and other strategic projects and actions exposes us to various risks. 🔒
🟡 Modified We are exposed to risks arising from various labor-related matters. 🔒
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