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Valvoline Inc (VVV) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for VVV, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.81 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How VVV has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.81 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Valvoline Inc moved 0.81% on average · correlation 0.23 · higher than 77% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.61 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.83% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −1.39% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Auto & Truck Dealerships · United States · 6 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Auto & Truck Dealerships · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against VVV on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Valvoline Inc

VVV in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Valvoline operates and franchises retail service centres across the United States and Canada that carry out oil changes, battery and wiper replacements, tyre rotations and other routine car maintenance. It works through a mix of company-run stores and franchised locations rather than manufacturing the lubricants it sells. The business traces back to 1866, is based in Lexington, Kentucky, and has traded publicly since 2016.
Where it sits in the stack
Valvoline holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index, so it sits outside that stack altogether. It belongs to the diary's wider Consumer Cyclical sleeve, under auto maintenance and dealership services, a part of the universe we track separately from compute, chips or data-centre infrastructure.
Who it is priced against
The diary has not set a peer group for Valvoline in our data. The name most often placed alongside it is Jiffy Lube, the quick-service oil-change chain owned by Shell.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Valvoline is a Russell 1000 constituent but is not part of Rubin or any AI-linked sleeve the diary tracks. It carries no Closelooknet score and no quotes or edition mentions in our record, so its coverage here rests on the index seat alone.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether Valvoline keeps expanding its store count through company-owned openings or leans more on franchise conversions, since that mix shapes how the business scales.

Valvoline Inc (VVV) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 2 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by RBC Capital, 2026-09-11

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for VVV from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target RBC Capital — target 49 from 46 Target raised to $49 from $46 (+62.2% to spot) 2026-09-11
  • Initiation Benchmark — at Buy Initiated to Buy 2026-08-19

2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation, 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Valvoline Inc (VVV)?

Valvoline Inc trades as VVV on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is VVV in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Valvoline Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does VVV trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -13.9% vs the 50-day and -15.6% vs the 200-day average, 29.6% below the 52-week high and +10.3% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 4 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Valvoline Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Valvoline Inc had a beta of 0.81 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 77% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.83% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Valvoline Inc do?

Valvoline operates and franchises retail service centres across the United States and Canada that carry out oil changes, battery and wiper replacements, tyre rotations and other routine car maintenance. It works through a mix of company-run stores and franchised locations rather than manufacturing the lubricants it sells. The business traces back to 1866, is based in Lexington, Kentucky, and has traded publicly since 2016. The diary has not set a peer group for Valvoline in our data. The name most often placed alongside it is Jiffy Lube, the quick-service oil-change chain owned by Shell.

Where does Valvoline Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Valvoline holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index, so it sits outside that stack altogether. It belongs to the diary's wider Consumer Cyclical sleeve, under auto maintenance and dealership services, a part of the universe we track separately from compute, chips or data-centre infrastructure. Valvoline is a Russell 1000 constituent but is not part of Rubin or any AI-linked sleeve the diary tracks. It carries no Closelooknet score and no quotes or edition mentions in our record, so its coverage here rests on the index seat alone.

What has Wall Street done on Valvoline Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Valvoline Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by RBC Capital on 2026-09-11 (target 49 from 46). 2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation, 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for VVV, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Auto & Truck Dealerships, then Consumer Cyclical. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.