3 companies · median 24 of 36 checks · prices as of 2026-10-23
Petroleum refining stocks.
Sorted by how many checks each one passes. Sort by any column to see who is cheapest, who is growing, or who has the strongest balance sheet - and how that compares with what is normal for the industry.
Ranked by checks passed
3 companies in this sector→The petroleum refiners we cover score close together, from 21 to 26 of 36 checks, with a median of 24.
→XOM, CVX, COP are 100% of the $1.40T we cover here, so a sector average says more about them than about the rest.
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 ConocoPhillipsCOPThe largest independent oil and gas producer, with no refining business.Report | +3.5% | +78.0% | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 26/36 | |
 ChevronCVXProduces oil and gas worldwide and refines and sells fuels.Report | +2.9% | +55.8% | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 24/36 | |
 ExxonMobilXOMProduces oil and gas worldwide, and refines fuels and makes chemicals.Report | +2.8% | +64.3% | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 21/36 |
Every filing behind this table closes on 2026-06-30; prices are the close of 2026-10-23. Each name links to its full report; every score is a count of pass-or-fail checks read from that company's own filings.
Where the sector falls short
median score per axis→Growth is where the petroleum refiners we cover come up short most often, at a median of 2 of 6, while Trend runs at 6. Every one of them passes at least five of the Trend checks, so that axis separates nothing here.
| Value | ●●●○○○ | 3 of 6 |
| Growth | ●●○○○○ | 2 of 6 |
| Quality | ●●●○○○ | 3 of 6 |
| Financial health | ●●●●○○ | 4 of 6 |
| Shareholder returns | ●●●●○○ | 4 of 6 |
| Trend | ●●●●●● | 6 of 6 |
Who grows, and who keeps it
every company in the industryA year of price
not a fact about the business→Every one of them is up over twelve months, by a median of +64.3% - ConocoPhillips (COP) at +78.0% against Chevron (CVX) at +55.8%. Price is not a fact about a business, and the Trend chapter of each report says what it is measured on.
Head to head
3 pairsThe table above gives the order. These put two of them in one column each, so you can see where the difference actually is.