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Top Petroleum Refining Stocks in USA

Five U.S.-listed petroleum refining names, read through one evidence stack: market path, official filing history, profitability, readiness, Prism attention and industry context.

Snapshot: 28 August 2026Not investment adviceRanked by Prism readiness
Readiness leaderChevron · 60
Strongest available pathMarathon Petroleum · +513.4%
Widest latest marginExxonMobil · 8.3%
Companies compared5 · U.S.-listed
01 · Readiness ranking

Five companies, one comparable score

Companies are ordered by the Fliar BI Prism readiness score used by the Prism Finance USA source pack. The score is a research signal, not a recommendation.

Readiness #1CVX · NYSE

Chevron

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Petroleum Refining

Founded 1901San Ramon, California$395.97B market cap
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60Moderate
Snapshot price$201.9as of page date
Monthly-close return+106.4%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$184.43BCHEVRON CORP
Net margin6.7%FY2025
P/E snapshot19.4xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention53.6%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+18.5%
$0$78.6B$157.1B$235.7BFY2021: $155.606BFY2022: $235.717BFY2023: $196.913BFY2024: $193.414BFY2025: $184.432B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 4.3%
52-week position81% through range
$146.5$214.7
News mentions138.7K
Community mentions0partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents22538
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 26/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal61/100
Management stability90/100
Market position100/100
Capital-event signal50/100
Innovation pulse59/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 22 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 151 M&A involvements, 508 asset-acquisition events and 459 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 12 lifetime product-launch events, 4 in the latest 360 days, and 97 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

Recent available records contain 4 lawsuit, 13 regulatory and 0 layoff events across their stated windows.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #2MPC · NYSE

Marathon Petroleum

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Petroleum Refining

Founded 1965La Palma, California$107.67B market cap
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54Moderate
Snapshot price$368.8as of page date
Monthly-close return+513.4%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$132.70BMarathon Petroleum Corp
Net margin3.0%FY2025
P/E snapshot12.8xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention6.4%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+10.6%
$0$59.2B$118.3B$177.5BFY2021: $119.983BFY2022: $177.453BFY2023: $148.379BFY2024: $138.864BFY2025: $132.699B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 2.6%
52-week position100% through range
$161.9$369.1
News mentions16.7K
Community mentions277partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents527
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal78/100
Management stability90/100
Market position69/100
Capital-event signal15/100
Innovation pulse0/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 8 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 18 M&A involvements, 52 asset-acquisition events and 15 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 0 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #3VLO · NYSE

Valero

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Petroleum Refining

Founded 1980San Antonio, Texas$101.45B market cap
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35Cautious
Snapshot price$352.4as of page date
Monthly-close return+422.7%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$122.69BVALERO ENERGY CORP/TX
Net margin1.9%FY2025
P/E snapshot14.7xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention5.9%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+7.6%
$0$58.8B$117.6B$176.4BFY2021: $113.977BFY2022: $176.383BFY2023: $144.766BFY2024: $129.881BFY2025: $122.687B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 1.9%
52-week position100% through range
$151.2$353.0
News mentions15.2K
Community mentions927partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents96
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 8/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal28/100
Management stability90/100
Market position29/100
Capital-event signal35/100
Innovation pulse10/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 1 key-person event recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 15 M&A involvements, 41 asset-acquisition events and 22 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 6 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

Recent available records contain 0 lawsuit, 0 regulatory and 1 layoff events across their stated windows.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #4XOM · NYSE

ExxonMobil

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Petroleum Refining

Founded 1882Ewing$644.38B market cap
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30Cautious
Snapshot price$156.7as of page date
Monthly-close return+186.9%five-year window
FY2021 revenue$276.69BEXXON MOBIL CORP
Net margin8.3%FY2021
P/E snapshot20.2xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention30.9%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+8.3%
$0$92.2B$184.5B$276.7BFY2019: $255.583BFY2020: $178.574BFY2021: $276.692B201920202021
FY2019–FY2021 · 3 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 4.0%
52-week position71% through range
$108.3$176.4
News mentions79.8K
Community mentions2.4Kpartial coverage
U.S.-scope patents35629
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal53/100
Management stability70/100
Market position0/100
Capital-event signal0/100
Innovation pulse0/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 0 M&A involvements, 0 asset-acquisition events and 0 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 0 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #5PSX · NYSE

Phillips 66

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Petroleum Refining

Founded 2019Tulsa, Oklahoma$97.37B market cap
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29Avoid
Snapshot price$244.0as of page date
Monthly-close return+237.3%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$132.38BPhillips 66
Net margin3.3%FY2025
P/E snapshot13.9xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention3.2%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+18.7%
$0$56.7B$113.3B$170.0BFY2021: $111.476BFY2022: $169.990BFY2023: $147.399BFY2024: $143.153BFY2025: $132.376B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 4.4%
52-week position98% through range
$126.7$246.9
News mentions8.2K
Community mentions665partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents1205
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 4/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal56/100
Management stability70/100
Market position3/100
Capital-event signal0/100
Innovation pulse0/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 0 M&A involvements, 1 asset-acquisition events and 0 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 0 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

Recent available records contain 1 lawsuit, 0 regulatory and 0 layoff events across their stated windows.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

02 · Side-by-side

The comparisons that change the picture

Every bar preserves its own meaning. Price return, revenue scale, profitability and attention are deliberately not blended into one recommendation.

Available monthly-close return

Dated window printed on each company card; not a forecast.

Marathon Petroleum
+513.4%
Valero
+422.7%
Phillips 66
+237.3%
ExxonMobil
+186.9%
Chevron
+106.4%

Latest revenue

USD billions, official filing scope shown on each company card.

ExxonMobil
$276.69B
Chevron
$184.43B
Marathon Petroleum
$132.70B
Phillips 66
$132.38B
Valero
$122.69B

Latest profit margin

Company-card labels distinguish continuing-operations and net-income scope.

ExxonMobil
8.3%
Chevron
6.7%
Phillips 66
3.3%
Marathon Petroleum
3.0%
Valero
1.9%

Prism news attention

Normalized share across these five names; attention is not quality.

Chevron
53.6%
ExxonMobil
30.9%
Marathon Petroleum
6.4%
Valero
5.9%
Phillips 66
3.2%
03 · Prism readout

What the signals say—and what they do not

The headline share is normalized petroleum refining news attention across these five names. Partial community coverage and U.S.-scope patent records are displayed separately and are not blended into it.

Scale + attention

Chevron leads the conversation

It holds 53.6% of measured petroleum refining news attention and also carries the basket's largest revenue base at $184.43B.

Price path

Marathon Petroleum leads the available price paths

Its monthly-close return is +513.4% for the five-year window. At the other end, Chevron is +106.4% for its five-year window. Windows printed on each card must be compared carefully; price history is not a forecast.

Profitability

ExxonMobil has the widest latest margin

Its FY2021 net margin is 8.3%. Its revenue history in this snapshot spans only the periods printed on its card, so longer histories are not treated as equivalent.

Price vs operating signals

Marathon Petroleum shows why one ratio is not a verdict

It has the basket's lowest snapshot P/E at 12.8x while its five-year window price return is +513.4%. Valuation, price path and readiness answer different questions.

04 · Research areas

Deeper Prism readout where coverage is dense

Shown only for companies with more than 800 available Prism news records. Counts describe the available research corpus, not company quality.

Areas of research · CVX

Chevron

138,682available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Price action & investor response
4,094
Macro demand & rates
2,892
Earnings & financial performance
1,450
Legal, arbitration & regulatory
1,077
Capital allocation & transactions
982

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

-1.4%16,662 latest 12m vs 16,907 prior 12m
2024-03: 1,258 mentions2024-04: 1,044 mentions2024-05: 1,311 mentions2024-06: 1,395 mentions2024-07: 2,032 mentions2024-08: 1,363 mentions2024-09: 1,046 mentions2024-10: 1,098 mentions2024-11: 1,266 mentions2024-12: 1,235 mentions2025-01: 1,842 mentions2025-02: 1,807 mentions2025-03: 2,085 mentions2025-04: 1,550 mentions2025-05: 1,312 mentions2025-06: 797 mentions2025-07: 1,532 mentions2025-08: 1,337 mentions2025-09: 1,096 mentions2025-10: 1,162 mentions2025-11: 1,057 mentions2025-12: 1,550 mentions2026-01: 3,300 mentions2026-02: 1,948 mentions2026-03: 2,146 mentions2026-04: 2,486 mentions2026-05: 1,600 mentions2026-06: 298 mentions2026-07: 17 mentions2026-08: 2 mentions2024-032026-08

Machine-classified coverage tone

46.1% positive-9.2 pp vs preceding four quarters
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Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

oil price volatility 1,121commodity trading 790stock performance 696export sanctions 691supreme court ruling 554opec policies 475offshore well completion 475exploration drilling 443

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-01–2026-08-03 · trend and themes shown through 2026-08
Areas of research · MPC

Marathon Petroleum

16,653available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Earnings & financial performance
234
Macro demand & rates
186
Price action & investor response
146
Capital allocation & transactions
86
Leadership & governance
54

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+112.6%3,527 latest 12m vs 1,659 prior 12m
2024-01: 95 mentions2024-02: 108 mentions2024-03: 194 mentions2024-04: 130 mentions2024-05: 144 mentions2024-06: 125 mentions2024-07: 87 mentions2024-08: 141 mentions2024-09: 131 mentions2024-10: 132 mentions2024-11: 119 mentions2024-12: 108 mentions2025-01: 196 mentions2025-02: 193 mentions2025-03: 187 mentions2025-04: 141 mentions2025-05: 141 mentions2025-06: 83 mentions2025-07: 90 mentions2025-08: 168 mentions2025-09: 201 mentions2025-10: 208 mentions2025-11: 199 mentions2025-12: 337 mentions2026-01: 654 mentions2026-02: 645 mentions2026-03: 472 mentions2026-04: 304 mentions2026-05: 214 mentions2026-06: 35 mentions2024-012026-06

Machine-classified coverage tone

81.3% positive+6.2 pp vs preceding four quarters
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25Q3
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26Q2

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

oscars 213movie awards 177award ceremonies 85award nominee 82oil price volatility 76film competition 64film festival 55emmys 48

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-01–2026-06-15 · trend and themes shown through 2026-06
Areas of research · VLO

Valero

15,226available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Macro demand & rates
479
Price action & investor response
277
Earnings & financial performance
253
Capital allocation & transactions
56
Leadership & governance
20

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+69.1%2,405 latest 12m vs 1,422 prior 12m
2024-02: 46 mentions2024-03: 122 mentions2024-04: 138 mentions2024-05: 90 mentions2024-06: 77 mentions2024-07: 83 mentions2024-08: 73 mentions2024-09: 77 mentions2024-10: 140 mentions2024-11: 72 mentions2024-12: 64 mentions2025-01: 189 mentions2025-02: 158 mentions2025-03: 62 mentions2025-04: 158 mentions2025-05: 174 mentions2025-06: 107 mentions2025-07: 148 mentions2025-08: 212 mentions2025-09: 115 mentions2025-10: 148 mentions2025-11: 87 mentions2025-12: 111 mentions2026-01: 400 mentions2026-02: 216 mentions2026-03: 561 mentions2026-04: 343 mentions2026-05: 184 mentions2026-06: 27 mentions2026-07: 1 mentions2024-022026-07

Machine-classified coverage tone

41.4% positive-12.0 pp vs preceding four quarters
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Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

commodity trading 107plant explosion 97oil price volatility 94crude oil prices 71commodity futures 63economic slowdown 62chemical accident 54stock performance 50

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2005-02-01–2026-07-01 · trend and themes shown through 2026-07
Areas of research · XOM

ExxonMobil

79,842available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Price action & investor response
1,332
Earnings & financial performance
985
Capital allocation & transactions
515
Macro demand & rates
477
Legal, arbitration & regulatory
366

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+33.7%9,499 latest 12m vs 7,104 prior 12m
2024-03: 589 mentions2024-04: 570 mentions2024-05: 737 mentions2024-06: 548 mentions2024-07: 498 mentions2024-08: 453 mentions2024-09: 646 mentions2024-10: 569 mentions2024-11: 590 mentions2024-12: 432 mentions2025-01: 667 mentions2025-02: 730 mentions2025-03: 699 mentions2025-04: 613 mentions2025-05: 551 mentions2025-06: 412 mentions2025-07: 528 mentions2025-08: 667 mentions2025-09: 637 mentions2025-10: 628 mentions2025-11: 659 mentions2025-12: 673 mentions2026-01: 1,335 mentions2026-02: 1,051 mentions2026-03: 1,005 mentions2026-04: 1,262 mentions2026-05: 2,070 mentions2026-06: 173 mentions2026-07: 5 mentions2026-08: 1 mentions2024-032026-08

Machine-classified coverage tone

54.2% positive-6.4 pp vs preceding four quarters
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Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

circular plastic economy 702plastic recycling 562biodegradable plastics 502offshore well completion 399oil price volatility 372climate protests 332polymer innovation 319plastic bans 313

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-01–2026-08-03 · trend and themes shown through 2026-08
Areas of research · PSX

Phillips 66

8,202available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Price action & investor response
407
Earnings & financial performance
231
Capital allocation & transactions
121
Macro demand & rates
111
Leadership & governance
88

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+16.1%1,203 latest 12m vs 1,036 prior 12m
2024-01: 43 mentions2024-02: 64 mentions2024-03: 46 mentions2024-04: 94 mentions2024-05: 58 mentions2024-06: 64 mentions2024-07: 70 mentions2024-08: 54 mentions2024-09: 58 mentions2024-10: 126 mentions2024-11: 58 mentions2024-12: 48 mentions2025-01: 112 mentions2025-02: 138 mentions2025-03: 69 mentions2025-04: 137 mentions2025-05: 118 mentions2025-06: 48 mentions2025-07: 61 mentions2025-08: 67 mentions2025-09: 108 mentions2025-10: 96 mentions2025-11: 67 mentions2025-12: 75 mentions2026-01: 162 mentions2026-02: 135 mentions2026-03: 97 mentions2026-04: 216 mentions2026-05: 102 mentions2026-06: 17 mentions2024-012026-06

Machine-classified coverage tone

64.1% positive+6.6 pp vs preceding four quarters
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Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

stock performance 62stock price 56earnings report 56oil price volatility 47commodity trading 45investment deal 38share price 34financial report 28

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-02-10–2026-06-19 · trend and themes shown through 2026-06
05 · Community discussion

Common topics where conversation clears the gate

Shown only above 25 entity-matched mentions. Coverage is partial and topic counts exclude identified namesake noise.

MPC

Marathon Petroleum

277 mentions
Stock and valuation
172
Workplace and hiring
18
Products, pricing and logistics
6
Other company context
1

Partial entity-matched community coverage; namesake noise is excluded before topic aggregation. 277 records remained after filtering.

VLO

Valero

927 mentions
Stock and valuation
449
Products, pricing and logistics
178
Workplace and hiring
63
Other company context
5

Partial entity-matched community coverage; namesake noise is excluded before topic aggregation. 927 records remained after filtering.

XOM

ExxonMobil

2,371 mentions
Stock and valuation
1,110
Workplace and hiring
392
Products, pricing and logistics
261
Other company context
29

Partial entity-matched community coverage; namesake noise is excluded before topic aggregation. 2,371 records remained after filtering.

PSX

Phillips 66

665 mentions
Stock and valuation
362
Products, pricing and logistics
75
Workplace and hiring
33
Other company context
6

Partial entity-matched community coverage; namesake noise is excluded before topic aggregation. 665 records remained after filtering.

06 · Company event log

Common news types and recent highlights

Event patterns and selected recent headlines come from available Prism company-event records since 2023. Obvious forecast, holdings, duplicate and retrospective noise is filtered.

CVX

Chevron

through 2026-05-01
Company announcements 256Asset acquisitions 142Business contracts 120Earnings releases 90M&A 61
  1. Earnings releases

    Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) reported earnings of $2.2 billion ($1.11 per share - diluted) for first quarter 2026, compared with $3.5 billion ($2.00 per share - diluted) in first quarter 2025.

  2. Company announcements

    Chevron is set to drill two new natural gas wells in Egypt in 2026, one in the Narges field and another in the Western Mediterranean in partnership with Shell.

  3. Business contracts

    bp, Eni, Repsol, Chevron, and Shell have signed deals with the government of Venezuela to increase exploration and production under the reformed hydrocarbon law, local media reported.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

MPC

Marathon Petroleum

through 2026-02-13
Earnings releases 37Company announcements 10Leadership changes 9Business contracts 6M&A 2
  1. Leadership changes

    Maryann Mannen recently assumed the role of chairman of the board at Marathon Petroleum, succeeding Michael Hennigan, who has retired from his position as executive chairman and as a member of the board of directors.

  2. Business contracts

    Baker Hughes, Inc. (Houston) announced an agreement with Marathon Petroleum Corp. to become its preferred provider for hydrocarbon treatment products and services at refineries across the United States.

  3. Earnings releases

    Adjusted earnings per share of $4.70 for the fourth quarter and adjusted EBITDA of $3.5 billion for the quarter.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

VLO

Valero

through 2026-05-01
Earnings releases 44Company announcements 21Business contracts 9Leadership changes 5M&A 3
  1. Earnings releases

    The company reported net income of $1.3 billion, or $4.22 per share, compared with a net loss of $595 million a year earlier, when results were weighed down by impairment charges tied to its California refining assets. The earnings rebound was led by Valero’s core refining business, where operating income surged to $1.8 billion from a loss of $530 million a year earlier.

  2. Company announcements

    The impact of the Port Arthur shutdown is reflected in the company’s throughput guidance for this year’s second quarter. For the Gulf Coast region, specifically, the company expects refining throughput volumes of 1.69-1.74 million b/d, reflecting reduced rates at Port Arthur.

  3. M&A

    Cerity Partners LLC increased its holdings in shares of Valero Energy by 9.0% during the third quarter. Cerity Partners LLC now owns 104,859 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $17,853,000 after buying an additional 8,638 shares in the last quarter.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

XOM

ExxonMobil

through 2023-08-01
Earnings releases 14
  1. Earnings releases

    ExxonMobil reported Q2 FY2023 revenue of $80.80B and net income of $7.88B in the official-filing series.

  2. Earnings releases

    ExxonMobil reported Q1 FY2023 revenue of $83.64B and net income of $11.43B in the official-filing series.

Cached Prism company-event evidence fallback; totals describe available coverage and the displayed highlights prefer filing-backed earnings rows.

PSX

Phillips 66

through 2025-08-06
Earnings releases 1Lawsuits 1
  1. Lawsuits

    On July 30, 2025, the Superior Court of California ordered Phillips 66 to pay $195 million in exemplary damages to Propel Fuels, in addition to $604.9 million in compensatory damages awarded in October 2024.

  2. Earnings releases

    Phillips 66 reported on Tuesday adjusted earnings of $984 million for the second quarter, down from $1.77 billion for the same period of 2023.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

07 · Industry landscape

Petroleum Refining Industry in USA

A bottom-of-page sector lens combining Prism's exact U.S. market-growth extraction with tightly matched U.S.-primary petroleum refining news. It adds context to the stock basket without turning industry signals into a recommendation.

Prism market forecast extraction

petroleum market

2 sources57.9% extraction confidence
2025 extracted base$57.60B
2034 extracted forecast$78.20B
Implied source CAGR3.5%
rising domestic demandrobust industrial growthtransportation network expansion

Multi-source card returned by Prism's /special_extraction market-growth service. Extracted geography mix: Philippines. This is a dated market benchmark, not a forecast for the five-stock basket.

Prism news insights

U.S. Petroleum Refining news pulse

2,943available Prism news records
Latest 12m volume+20.2%1429 vs 1189 records
Positive classified tone60.5%-10.2 pp vs prior four quarters
2024-01: 62 mentions2024-02: 64 mentions2024-03: 63 mentions2024-04: 60 mentions2024-05: 76 mentions2024-06: 49 mentions2024-07: 82 mentions2024-08: 87 mentions2024-09: 120 mentions2024-10: 114 mentions2024-11: 91 mentions2024-12: 64 mentions2025-01: 175 mentions2025-02: 100 mentions2025-03: 109 mentions2025-04: 93 mentions2025-05: 105 mentions2025-06: 69 mentions2025-07: 72 mentions2025-08: 94 mentions2025-09: 103 mentions2025-10: 106 mentions2025-11: 87 mentions2025-12: 106 mentions2026-01: 80 mentions2026-02: 133 mentions2026-03: 266 mentions2026-04: 289 mentions2026-05: 24 mentions2024-012026-05
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Available U.S.-primary Prism records matching petroleum, refining. Metadata counts can overlap; coverage volume and tone are not measures of industry output.

Recurring Prism themes

crude oil refining methods
1,525
petroleum distillation processes
788
silver refining processes
770
silver supply chain analysis
756
crude oil storage solutions
707
silver in solar panel production
581

Metadata occurrences; one record can contribute more than one theme.

Frequent industry keywords

silver consumption 482silver price movements 183silver-gold ratio 178oil price volatility 177gold futures trends 174precious metals pricing 173silver paste utilization 171precious metals volatility 152

Counts cover the matched industry corpus, not the broader company-news totals above.

Curated signal map

Opportunity and caution, side by side

Evidence prompts—not probabilities.

Opportunity · market driver

rising domestic demand

2 forecast sources

A recurring driver in the extracted market evidence provides a measurable research thread for the sector.

Prism /special_extraction market-growth card
Opportunity · demand

crude oil refining methods

1,525 matched theme records

The largest current Prism news theme shows where sector attention and reported activity are concentrating.

Prism U.S. news metadata
Opportunity · innovation

Innovation and product activity

86 matched news records

Technology, product and R&D metadata provide an auditable view of the sector's innovation conversation.

Unique news records matching the curated innovation rule
Caution · market restraint

Economic-cycle exposure

831 macro/risk records

The extracted restraint and the measured macro-news pulse belong in the downside research frame.

Prism market-growth restraint plus U.S. news metadata
Caution · news pulse

Coverage growth can reverse

+20.2% news volume

The latest 12 months contain 1,429 matched records versus 1,189 in the previous window.

Available Prism coverage through 2026-05-05
Caution · sentiment

Classified tone is not demand

60.5% positive · -10.2pp

Machine-classified news tone is useful context, but it is not revenue, output or a return forecast.

Eight-quarter Prism sentiment series

Opportunity and caution cards are curated research prompts grounded in the counts shown; they are not probabilities, recommendations or forecasts. News coverage runs 2024-01-01–2026-05-05; the latest quarter may be partial.

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08 · Scope and sources

How to read this snapshot

Basket and ranking

Five currently eligible U.S.-listed issuers classified under SEC SIC 2911 (Petroleum Refining). The builder rechecks price, filing and Prism evidence before assembling the basket. This is a focused research comparison, not a complete sector index.

Companies are ordered by the Fliar BI Prism readiness score used by the Prism Finance USA source pack. The score is a research signal, not a recommendation.

Evidence used

  • Official annual filingsFY revenue history and latest profitability
  • U.S. exchange market snapshotDated price, 52-week range, P/E, market capitalisation and monthly-close return
  • Fliar BI PrismReadiness, company and industry news, community context and U.S.-scope patent records
  • Prism market-growth extractionDated third-party Petroleum Refining Industry in USA market benchmark with source-count, geography and confidence context
Important: Research and educational information only. Not investment advice, a recommendation, or a live-price service. Market figures are dated as of 28 August 2026.
09 · Final derived analysis

Conclusions, comparisons, anomalies, explanations and decisions

A final evidence-linked synthesis of the metrics already displayed above. Every named company opens its actual Companies Radar profile.

Conclusions

Scale and margin leadership sit with ExxonMobil and ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil has the largest displayed latest revenue at $276.69B; ExxonMobil has the widest displayed latest margin at 8.3%.

Comparisons
Anomalies

ExxonMobil has the widest attention-readiness rank gap

It ranks #2 by measured news attention (30.9%) and #4 by Prism readiness. The gap is a review flag, not evidence that either measure is wrong.

Marathon Petroleum shows a price-operating divergence to inspect

Its displayed filing-revenue change is +10.6% while its available monthly-close return is +513.4%. This is the basket's largest numerical spread; the measures use different units and windows and are not directly equivalent.

Explanations

Attention measures coverage volume, not quality

Chevron's 53.6% share says it appears most often in the matched Prism corpus. It does not score whether that coverage is favourable or whether the company is investable.

Different windows explain why signals can disagree

Revenue comes from the printed filing periods, price paths use the dated monthly-close windows, and Prism signals use their stated event windows. No causal attribution is made across them.

Research decisions

Verify the readiness leader in Companies Radar

Open Chevron's company profile and inspect the underlying management, market-activity, innovation and risk evidence before relying on the 60/100 score.

Stress-test the largest divergence before forming a view

Compare Marathon Petroleum's profile with Marathon Petroleum's profile, then reconcile the displayed filing and price windows. This is a next-research action, not a buy or sell decision.

Method boundary: These are deterministic comparisons of the displayed snapshot fields. They flag relationships for further research, do not establish causality and are not investment recommendations.
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