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Updated: Sep 6, 2026
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Chevron

NYSE:CVX·Stock Analysis Report
Day Range
$207.12 - $209.86
Market Cap
413.03B
P/E Ratio
20.3388
Avg Value
$180.60
Year Range
$146.49 - $214.71
$208.60-$2.72 (-1.29%)
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General Information
Chevron is an integrated energy company with exploration, production, and refining operations worldwide.

It is the second-largest oil company in the United States with 2025 worldwide net oil-equivalent production of 3.7 million barrels per day, including 8.5 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas and 2.3 million barrels of liquids per day. Production takes place in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The company's refining networks arelocated in the United States and Asia, with a total worldwide refining capacity of 1.8 million barrels of oil a day at year-end 2025. Net proved reserves at year-end 2025 stood at 10.6 billion barrels of oil equivalent, consisting of 5.7 billion barrels of liquids and 29.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

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Chevron (CVX) Stock Graph
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How We Grade Chevron (CVX)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Chevron (CVX) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

70.14

Growth measures a stock's combined historical expansion in earnings and revenue across multiple time periods, with emphasis on both long-term trends and recent performance.

79.65

Value is a percentile-ranked composite metric that evaluates a stock's relative worth by comparing its market price to fundamental measures of the company's assets, earnings, sales, and operating performance.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

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Peer Ratings

See how Chevron compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
SHELShell
94.44
N/A
38.69
72.8
TTETotalEnergies
91.11
N/A
37.54
79.67
XOMExxonMobil Holdings
77.51
N/A
58.52
79.67
PBRPetrobras Brasileiro
96.67
N/A
64.19
89.88
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Future Growth
Our estimate of future price growth is based on an aggregation of 11 analyst ratings over the past 3 months and their 12-month price targets.

Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $200.00 - $243.00 with an average of $216.77

3.92%
Expected movement for Chevron (CVX) over the next 12 months
Based on these rankings

Recent Ratings for Chevron (CVX)

BMO Capital
Date:
Sep 3, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$210.00
New Target:
$235.00
Piper Sandler
Date:
Sep 3, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$207.00
New Target:
$243.00
Wells Fargo
Date:
Sep 3, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$226.00
New Target:
$230.00
Morgan Stanley
Date:
Aug 19, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$210.00
New Target:
$218.00
Barclays
Date:
Aug 17, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$216.00
New Target:
$208.00
TD Cowen
Date:
Aug 5, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$200.00
New Target:
$205.00
Bernstein
Date:
Aug 3, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$204.00
New Target:
$209.00
Barclays
Date:
Aug 3, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$213.00
New Target:
$216.00
B of A Securities
Date:
Jul 28, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$210.00
New Target:
$227.00
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Valuation

Earnings History (3 years)

It is important to look at a companies earnings history to see not only if they are profitable, but if their earnings are growing.
As you can see from the chart above, CVX's earnings have decreased for the past three years, this is a negative sign for the stock.
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Financial Health
What is the current state of the company's financial situation?

We measure the health of a company based on how profitable they are and their ability to cover both their short-term and long-term debts. The key indicators that we use are the Operating Margin, Quick Ratio, and Debt-to-Equity ratio relative to the companies peers

Operational Margin 0.2124

The operating margin measures how much profit a company makes after it spends money on wages, materials or other administrative expenses but before interest and taxes. It is a good representation of how efficiently a company is able to generate profit from its core operations.

Quick Ratio 0.8436

The quick ratio measures how much of a company's debt, that is due in less than 1 year, can be covered using its cash equivalents, marketable securities, and money that is currently owed to them (accounts receivables).

A company with a quick ratio of less than 1.00 does not, in many cases, have the capital on hand to meet its short-term obligations if they were all due at once, while a quick ratio greater than one indicates the company has the financial resources to remain solvent in the short term.

Debt-to-Equity 0.7087

Debt-to-equity is calculated by dividing a company's total liabilities by its shareholders equity. It is a measure of the degree to which a company is financing its operations through debt versus wholly owned funds. Generally speaking, a D/E ratio below 1.0 would be seen as relatively safe, whereas ratios of 2.0 or higher would be considered risky.

The chart above shows Chevron (CVX) operating margin, quick ratio, and debt-to-equity ratio compared to its peers. The black markers represent the peer averages for each ratio and the blue bars represent Chevron (CVX) ratio values.
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Dividend
There are few things we like to see when evaluating the quality of a company's dividend history and future

Ideally, we would like to see a company have a long history of consistently high dividend payouts that have grown at a consistent rate. From here we want to be confident that this sort of dividend growth and consistency will persist into the future.

The chart below shows the historical trend in Chevron (CVX) dividend yield on an annual basis.

-17.56%
Chevron (CVX) saw a decrease in its dividend yield since 2021
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Past Performance
How has Chevron (CVX) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Chevron (CVX) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is 1.5403 which is considered to be above average compared to the peer average of 1.4184

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Analyzing Chevron (CVX) Recent Options Activity
Below, you can see the trend in options sentiment over the past 30 days.

Based on our data, CVX's options trades have recently carried more negative sentiment than positive.

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Company Financials
INCOME STATEMENT
The income statement also known as the profit and loss statement, primarily focuses on the company's revenues and expenses during a particular period.

The main purpose of an income statement is to convey details of profitability and business activities. Below, is CVX's income statement for the previous four years along with its trailing-twelve- month profit & loss.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Revenue
235.72
196.91
193.41
184.43
208.71
Operating Revenue
235.72
196.91
193.41
184.43
208.71
Cost Of Revenue
161.74
136.52
136.49
128.35
141.17
Gross Profit
73.98
60.39
56.93
56.09
67.54
Operating Expense
34.03
34.16
38.01
39.41
41.72
Selling General And Administration
4.31
4.14
4.83
5.13
5.40
Research and Development
Operating Income
39.95
26.23
18.92
16.67
25.82
Net Non-Operating Interest Income Expense
-0.52
-0.47
-0.59
-1.22
-1.43
Other Income Expense
10.24
3.82
9.18
4.29
6.25
Other Non-Operating Income Expenses
1.66
-1.31
4.59
1.29
1.74
Pre-Tax Income
49.67
29.58
27.51
19.74
30.64
Tax Provision
14.07
8.17
9.76
7.26
9.68
Net Income
35.47
21.37
17.66
12.30
20.59
Net Income Common Stockholders
35.47
21.37
17.66
12.30
20.59
Total Operating Income As Reported
Total Expenses
195.77
170.68
174.50
167.76
182.89
Net Income From Continuing And Discontinued Operation
35.47
21.37
17.66
12.30
20.59
Normalized Income
35.47
21.37
17.66
12.30
20.59
Interest Income
Interest Expense
0.52
0.47
0.59
1.22
1.43
Net Interest Income
-0.52
-0.47
-0.59
-1.22
-1.43
EBIT
50.19
30.05
28.10
20.96
32.07
EBITDA
65.48
45.04
44.73
41.42
55.77
Reconciled Cost Of Revenue
161.74
136.52
136.49
128.35
141.17
Reconciled Depreciation
15.29
14.99
16.62
20.46
23.70
Normalized EBITDA
65.48
45.04
44.73
41.42
55.77
Tax Rate For Calcs
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.27
Tax Effect Of Unusual Items
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
BALANCE SHEET
The balance sheet is a snapshot of a companies financials during a particular period in time.

It breaks down what company owns (assets) and what a company owes (liabilities), in order to give investors an overview of its capital structure.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Assets
257.71
261.63
256.94
324.01
330.14
Current Assets
50.34
41.13
40.91
38.55
49.14
Total Non-Current Assets
207.37
220.50
216.03
285.46
281.00
Total Liabilities Net Minority Interest
97.47
99.70
103.78
131.84
134.58
Current Liabilities
34.21
32.26
38.56
33.39
39.24
Other Non-Current Liabilities
20.40
24.23
22.09
24.54
24.39
Total Equity Gross Minority Interest
160.24
161.93
153.16
192.18
195.56
Stockholders Equity
Total Capitalization
180.25
180.69
171.91
225.57
226.56
Common Stock Equity
159.28
160.96
152.32
186.45
189.88
Net Tangible Assets
154.56
156.24
147.74
181.88
185.32
Working Capital
16.14
8.87
2.35
5.17
9.90
Invested Capital
182.17
181.16
176.25
225.76
226.96
Tangible Book Value
154.56
156.24
147.74
181.88
185.32
Total Debt
23.34
20.84
24.54
40.76
37.08
Net Debt
5.21
12.02
17.16
33.02
28.55
Share Issued
2.44
2.44
2.44
2.44
1.96
Ordinary Shares Number
1.90
1.85
1.77
1.98
1.96
CASH FLOW STATEMENTS
A companies statement of cash flows gives an investor a break down of the cash inflows and outflows from a companies operations and investment activities.
FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Cash Flow from Continuing Operating Activities
49.60
35.61
31.49
33.94
45.32
Net Income from Continuing Operations
35.61
21.41
17.75
12.49
20.96
Depreciation and Amortization
14.81
14.55
16.20
20.13
23.55
Deferred Tax
2.12
0.30
1.24
0.99
0.51
Deferred Income Tax
2.12
0.30
1.24
0.99
0.51
Stock-Based Compensation
Other Non-Cash Items
-1.30
0.37
-3.73
-1.21
-1.02
Change in Working Capital
2.07
-3.33
0.10
-1.65
-0.70
Change in Receivables
-2.16
1.34
-0.82
3.70
-5.82
Changes in Account Receivables
-2.32
1.19
-0.93
3.83
-5.83
Change in Inventory
-0.93
-0.32
-0.57
0.05
-0.91
Change in Payables and Accrued Expense
5.60
-2.85
2.73
-4.78
7.38
Change in Payable
5.60
-2.85
2.73
-4.78
7.38
Change in Account Payable
2.75
-0.05
2.57
-3.47
5.74
Change in Other Current Assets
Change in Other Current Liabilities
Change in Other Working Capital
-0.21
-0.30
-1.22
-0.51
-0.15
Cash Flow from Continuing Investing Activities
-12.11
-15.23
-8.94
-15.91
-14.13
Net PPE Purchase and Sale
Net Business Purchase and Sale
-1.66
0.28
0.20
-1.02
1.20
Purchase of Business
-2.23
0.00
Net Investment Purchase and Sale
0.12
0.17
0.04
0.00
Purchase of Investment
-0.01
-0.29
-0.01
-0.02
Sale of Investment
0.12
0.46
0.05
0.02
Net Other Investing Changes
1.41
0.14
7.28
2.46
2.98
Financing Cash Flow
-24.98
-30.11
-23.47
-19.06
-26.96
Cash Flow from Continuing Financing Activities
-24.98
-30.11
-23.47
-19.06
-26.96
Net Issuance Payments of Debt
-8.48
-4.05
3.57
5.87
-2.63
Net Long-Term Debt Issuance
-8.74
-4.19
-1.30
6.93
1.12
Long-Term Debt Issuance
0.48
11.40
6.01
Long-Term Debt Payments
-8.74
-4.34
-1.78
-4.47
-4.89
Net Short-Term Debt Issuance
0.26
0.14
4.87
-1.06
-3.75
Net Common Stock Issuance
-11.25
-14.94
-15.23
-12.08
-11.14
Common Stock Issuance
Common Stock Payments
-11.25
-14.94
-15.23
-12.08
-11.14
Cash Dividends Paid
-10.97
-11.34
-11.80
-12.75
-13.86
Net Other Financing Charges
-0.11
-0.04
-0.34
-0.47
-0.68
End Cash Position
61.98
43.58
26.20
27.61
31.97
Changes in Cash
12.52
-9.73
-0.92
-1.03
4.24
Beginning Cash Position
49.65
53.43
27.22
28.59
27.76
Capital Expenditure
-11.97
-15.83
-16.45
-17.35
-18.31
Issuance of Capital Stock
Issuance of Debt
0.26
0.29
6.19
20.22
12.93
Repayment of Debt
-8.74
-4.34
-2.62
-14.35
-15.56
Repurchase of Capital Stock
-11.25
-14.94
-15.23
-12.08
-11.14
Free Cash Flow
37.63
19.78
15.04
16.59
27.01