Valvoline Inc. (VVV)
Quick-lube service centers, counted by store and support. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 21, 2025. Ranked 133 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
15%
End of 2028
25%
Employees, annual report
11,400
Leading staffing pattern
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now15%
- End of 202722%
- End of 202825%
- End of 203025%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 74%
- Becomes checking a model's work 19%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
Valvoline's table counts 11,400 employees at September 30, 2025, 10,100 in its company-operated service center stores and 1,300 in central supporting teams, with franchisees' and contract employees apart, so the stores take automotive repair and the stated support count goes to management of companies (a).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 15% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 25% at the end of 2028, 25% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 25% desk work, 12% people work and 63% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 74% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 19% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
11,400 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). The filing counts employees in the U.S. and Canada together; the U.S. alone is not stated.
The filing: “Workforce As of September 30, 2025, Valvoline had approximately 11,400 employees (excluding contract employees) in the U.S. and Canada, including approximately 10,600 full-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Automotive Repair and Maintenance | 89% | The filing's table counts 10,100 company-operated store employees across 1,016 company-owned retail service center stores, read at automotive repair and maintenance (a). |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 11% | The filing's table counts 1,300 central supporting team members who support the network of about 2,200 stores, a stated support count read at management of companies under rule 6 (a). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 10,600 of 11,400 are full-time (about 7% part-time); contract employees and franchisees' employees are excluded; 270 hours of training in the first 60 days for new store employees; most store manager promotions earned by team members who started hourly.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Automotive Repair and Maintenance, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Icahn Enterprises L.P. (IEP, 13,547 employees)15% now, 23% by 2028
- Driven Brands Holdings Inc. (DRVN, 8,000 employees)15% now, 22% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 11,400 | 2025-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 11,500 | 2024-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 10,000 | 2023-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 6,850 | 2022-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 9,800 | 2021-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 8,800 | 2020-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 7,900 | 2019-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 6,700 | 2018-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 5,600 | 2017-11-17 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 5,150 | 2016-12-19 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Franchised stores' employees (about 1,200 of the 2,200 stores) and contract employees are not counted (rule 8).
- The U.S. share is not stated; the count spans the U.S. and Canada.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001674910-25-000135, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Valvoline Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 15% now and 25% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Valvoline Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Valvoline Inc. employ?
- 11,400 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Valvoline Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Automotive Repair and Maintenance; by those patterns the work is about 25% desk work, 12% people work and 63% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Valvoline Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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