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Chevron CorporationCVXCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Energy›Integrated Oil

Major integrated oil and gas company producing, refining and marketing petroleum and chemicals worldwide.

Momentum strong 76
Mkt cap
$415B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
100%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$1.84B
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
11.4×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+5.3 pp
WACC 7.0%
Hurdle
-17 pp
Req g minus delivered
Official | Implied
AA- / AA+
agencies · bond market
Next earnings
77 days
22 Jan 2027
Close · USD$212.61
1D-0.1%
1W-9.7%
1M+0.5%
3M+9.1%
6M+18.1%
YTD+42.1%
1Y+43.5%
ATR %2.5%
Beta-0.54
52w lowhigh10.1% off high

What Chevron does

Major integrated oil and gas company producing, refining and marketing petroleum and chemicals worldwide.

Sells oil, gas, fuels and chemicals at market prices, with production earning the most when prices are high and refining and fuel marketing less cyclical. The 2025 purchase of Hess added a stake in Guyana's large offshore Stabroek field, alongside Permian Basin shale and its Kazakhstan operation.

Products and services

  • Upstream oil & gas production
  • Refining & marketing
  • Chemicals
  • Carbon capture/hydrogen

Customers

  • Global fuel and chemical markets

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Energy
  • Integrated oil & gas
  • Upstream, refining & chemicals

What could go right

  • Permian and Kazakhstan production growth
  • Hess acquisition Guyana exposure

What could go wrong

  • Commodity price cycles
  • Geopolitical/regulatory risk in producing regions

Moat: narrow (scale, cost advantage, installed base). Low-cost Permian and deepwater positions plus integrated downstream provide cost advantages.

Headquarters: Houston, Texas, US · Founded: 1879 · Employees: 43,039

Named competitors

Chevron at a glance

Size Chevron (CVX) is a United States Energy company (Integrated Oil) with a market value of $415B, the 23rd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $212.61 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 18.1%, against +1.9% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — highest of 8 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 22.1% over the last twelve months (peer median +15.0%); the operating margin is 15.4% (peer median 15.6%).

Valuation It trades at 11.4× forward earnings against a peer median of 7.0× (2nd most expensive of 8).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -3% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +14%, so the hurdle is -17 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 5.3 points above its cost of capital (7.0% WACC).

Credit Chevron has 27 bonds outstanding ($18.8B), rated AA- by the agencies and trading like AA+ at a weighted spread of 41 bp.

Short interest Short interest is 1.3% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 22 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026CVX 116Peer median 101
Six months, rebased to 100: Chevron against the median of its 7 peers (local-currency closes).

Chevron financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$228B$185B$193B$197B$236B
Revenue growth—-5%-2%-17%—
Gross profit$44.5B$27.1B$29.0B$37.2B$50.1B
EBITDA$59.6B$36.9B$36.5B$44.2B$57.3B
Net income$27.0B$12.3B$17.7B$21.4B$35.5B
Free cash flow$34.1B$16.8B$15.6B$20.5B$38.9B
Capital expenditure$17.8B$17.1B$15.9B$15.1B$10.7B
Total debt$33.5B$46.7B$29.6B$26.1B$27.4B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Chevron competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-10%0%+10%+20%-20%-10%0%+10%0857SHELXOMTTE0883PBRBPCVX6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Chevron is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

+10%+15%+20%5×7.5×10×0857SHELXOMTTE0883PBRBPCVXRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Chevron is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%-10%0%+10%-20%-10%0%10%0857SHELXOMTTEPBRCVXGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Chevron is the large dot.

Chevron competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (CVX vs XOM vs SHEL vs COP)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Chevron CVX$415B+18%+22%15%11.4×-3.0%
ExxonMobil XOM$677B+16%+21%14%11.8×-5.9%
Shell Plc Sponsored ADR SHEL$290B+18%+18%16%8.2×-16.6%
ConocoPhillips COP$164B+21%+9%22%11.5×-6.2%
BP PLC Sponsored ADR BP$119B+3%+26%14%6.6×n/a
TotalEnergies TTE.PA$200B+2%+11%17%7.0×-15.6%
Eni ENI.MI$82.2B+6%+4%9%8.4×0.8%
Equinor EQNR.OL$102B+12%+2%33%7.2×-15.4%
Occidental Petroleum OXY$56.4B+7%-11%23%9.1×-2.5%
Woodside Energy WDS.AX$40.4B0%-10%26%9.4×n/a

How Chevron compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Chevron against its 7 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureCVXPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+0.5%-1.5%3rd highest of 8
6-month return+18.1%+1.9%highest of 8
Distance from 52-week high-10.1%-12.4%3rd highest of 8
Revenue growth (TTM)+22.1%+15.0%2nd highest of 8
Operating margin15.4%15.6%4th lowest of 8
Forward P/E11.4×7.0×2nd most expensive of 8
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)-3.0%-13.2%most demanding of 7
Growth delivered (Del g)+14.3%+10.0%highest of 7
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-17.3 pp-21.8 pp2nd most demanding of 7
ROIC minus cost of capital+5.3 pp+9.6 pp2nd lowest of 8
EV / EBITDA7.4×4.4×2nd most expensive of 8
Net debt / EBITDA0.3×0.5×4th least indebted of 8
Bond spread41 bp63 bp2nd tightest of 6

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Chevron CVXUnited States$415B+18%+22%15%11.4×-3.0%+14.3%
Petrochina 0857.HKHong Kong$345B0%+14%8%8.4×-4.6%+7.5%
Shell SHEL.LUnited Kingdom$284B+18%+15%16%7.7×-10.9%+8.1%
ExxonMobil XOMUnited States$677B+16%+21%14%11.8×-5.9%+12.7%
TotalEnergies TTE.PAFrance$200B+2%+11%17%7.0×-15.6%+9.0%
Cnooc 0883.HKHong Kong$148B-9%+11%46%5.8×n/an/a
Petroleo Brasileiro SA Sponsored ADR PBRUnited States$118B-9%+21%35%3.7×-19.8%+11.0%
Bp PLC BP..LUnited Kingdom$116B+2%+23%13%5.4×-16.3%+11.7%

Chevron bonds and credit

Chevron has 27 bonds outstanding with $18.8B face value. The agencies rate it AA-; its bonds trade like AA+. Weighted yield 5.14%, a spread of 41 bp over government bonds.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are Chevron's main competitors?
Named competitors: ExxonMobil (XOM), Shell (SHEL), ConocoPhillips (COP), BP (BP), TotalEnergies (TTE.PA), Eni (ENI.MI). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Petrochina (0857.HK), Shell (SHEL.L), ExxonMobil (XOM), TotalEnergies (TTE.PA), Cnooc (0883.HK), Petroleo Brasileiro SA Sponsored ADR (PBR).
Is Chevron expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 11.4× against a peer median of 7.0×, 2nd most expensive of 8 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -3% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +14%, so the hurdle is -17 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Chevron stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +18.1% against +1.9% for the median peer; over one year +43.5%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.