Energy · Oil & gas

XOM ExxonMobil

Explores for, produces, refines and sells oil, natural gas, fuels and chemicals around the world.

  • The fuel behind the highway interchange.
  • Education only · not a recommendation

Price · as of previous close

Price, daily change and analyst projections appear here once the licensed market-data feed is connected. We don't show unlicensed or made-up numbers.

How it makes money

  • Producing crude oil and natural gas and selling it at market prices
  • Refining crude into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel
  • Chemicals made from oil and gas
  • Retail fuel and lubricants

What an owner watches

  • Oil and gas prices, which it does not control
  • Production volumes and the cost to produce each barrel
  • Capital spending on new fields
  • Policy on emissions and the energy transition

Questions we ask in class

  • If the company cannot set the price of its product, what can it control?
  • Why do energy stocks move with the price of oil?
  • What does an owner want to know about the cost per barrel?

What this page is

An educational profile: what the business does and the questions an owner asks. It is not investment advice, not a recommendation to buy or sell ExxonMobil, and not a forecast. Every company page on this site follows the same structure so you can compare businesses, not prices. Disclosures →