ExxonMobil
XOMMarket price data through November 12, 2026.
Performance
Nov 2021 – Nov 2026
Track record
How this pick has done since Benson first called it.
- Benson Return
- +55%
- How much this stock is up since Benson first picked it — measured from the price at the time of that first pick, not from today.
- First pick price
- ~$110
- Roughly what one share cost when Benson first picked this stock. This is the starting line for the Benson Return.
- Tracking since
- August 2025
- The month this stock first became a Benson pick.
- Tracking duration
- 15 months
- How long Benson has been tracking this pick.
About ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil is the largest publicly traded oil and gas company in the world, pumping about 4.5 million barrels of oil and gas a day. Think of them as the plumbing behind modern life, running oil wells in Texas and Guyana, giant refineries, chemical plants, and the gas stations you drive past every day. Right now, with global fuel supplies tight, their refineries are the star of the show.
The case for and against
Both sides of the story, in plain English.
- Refining Rocket
Profit from turning crude oil into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel jumped from 1.8 billion dollars a year ago to 7.2 billion dollars this quarter, about four times bigger. Trouble in the Middle East and refinery outages in Russia left the world short on fuel, and ExxonMobil's Gulf Coast refineries ran at 100% to fill the gap. That helped total quarterly profit double to 15.4 billion dollars.
- Cash Gusher
After paying for every well, pipeline, and plant, ExxonMobil kept 19.1 billion dollars of spare cash this quarter. It sent 9.4 billion dollars of that back to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks, and plans to keep buybacks at 20 billion dollars in 2027 if markets cooperate. Its cheapest barrels keep growing too, with the Permian Basin in Texas now near 1.8 million barrels a day.
- Middle East Mess
Total production slipped to about 4.5 million barrels a day, down 5.7% from a year ago. Damaged natural gas plants in Qatar and shipping problems in the region are holding barrels back, and ExxonMobil expects to lose about 350,000 barrels a day next quarter. When the problem is halfway around the world, there is only so much the company can do to speed up the fix.
- Borrowed Boom
Much of this quarter's profit jump came from a global fuel shortage, not from something ExxonMobil built. Refining profit quadrupled, and those fat margins will shrink once Middle East supply and global trade get back to normal, whether that happens next year or later. Over the past year, only about 9 cents of every dollar of sales ended up as profit, so a cooling market squeezes fast.
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