Occidental Petroleum Corp
Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY) is listed on NYSE and classified in Oil & Gas E&P, part of the Energy sector. It is headquartered in Houston, United States and has 10,412 employees. The company is worth $62.48B and trades at 17.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 14.7x. Revenue was $21.59B in fiscal 2025, down 1.9% from the year before. Net income was $2.37B. The share price is 7.3% below its 52-week high of $67.45. It pays a dividend yielding 1.79%. 7 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway), at $12.87B. In that quarter, 6 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Articles on this site that cover Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +110.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,999.84▲ +100.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $41.12 | $49.41 | $59.71 | $62.99 | $28.99 | $17.31 | $41.21 | $61.38 | $73.66 | $71.23 | $67.50 | $80.47 | $91.11 | $73.40 | $89.77 | $93.99 | $77.94 | $57.47 | $73.76 | |
| P/E | 15.3x | 25.5x | 20.2x | 15.3x | 5.1x | 18.3x | — | — | 11.4x | 43.3x | — | — | 101.9x | 12.4x | 13.0x | 11.3x | 17.6x | 22.7x | 7.2x | 12.0x |
| P/S | 2.8x | 1.9x | 2.1x | 2.3x | 1.5x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 1.8x | 2.6x | 4.5x | 5.4x | 4.1x | 3.2x | 3.7x | 3.1x | 3.2x | — | 4.5x | 2.2x | 3.6x |
| P/B | 1.8x | 1.1x | 1.4x | 1.7x | 1.9x | 1.3x | 0.9x | 1.1x | 2.2x | — | 2.5x | 2.1x | 1.8x | 1.8x | 1.5x | 2.0x | — | 2.3x | 1.9x | 3.0x |
| EPS | $1.61 | $2.44 | $3.90 | $12.40 | $1.58 | -$17.06 | -$1.22 | $5.39 | $1.70 | -$0.75 | -$10.23 | $0.79 | $7.32 | $5.66 | $7.97 | $5.33 | $3.43 | $7.99 | $6.15 | |
| Dividend yield | 2.33% | 2.33% | 1.78% | 1.21% | 0.83% | 0.14% | 4.74% | 7.62% | 5.05% | 4.15% | 4.24% | 4.39% | 3.46% | 2.69% | 2.82% | 1.96% | 1.50% | 1.61% | 2.02% | 1.22% |
| Payout | 33.51% | 59.63% | 36.07% | 18.46% | 4.19% | 2.53% | — | — | 57.51% | 180.00% | — | — | 352.94% | 33.51% | 36.56% | 22.12% | 26.44% | 36.59% | 14.51% | 14.64% |
| Profit margin | 19.68% | 10.97% | 13.98% | 20.28% | 36.32% | 8.95% | -83.28% | -4.71% | 23.18% | 10.48% | -5.69% | -62.73% | 3.19% | 29.27% | 22.88% | 28.28% | 23.79% | 19.68% | 28.92% | 28.75% |
| ROE | 11.46% | 6.57% | 9.01% | 15.52% | 44.22% | 11.42% | -79.85% | -2.88% | 19.37% | — | -2.67% | -32.15% | 1.76% | 13.69% | 11.49% | 18.00% | 13.95% | 10.02% | 25.09% | 23.62% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.5% a year plus a 1.8% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 14.7 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 15.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 0.5% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividend growing 2.5% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-50.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Companies of similar size in Energy, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| TRPTc Energy Corp | $61.98 | 24.5x | 3.6x | 4.02% | 11.83% | $64.57B |
| LNGCheniere Energy, Inc. | $287.01 | 21.7x | 9.6x | 0.77% | 39.12% | $59.28B |
| OKEOneok Inc /new/ | $93.90 | 16.2x | 2.6x | 4.56% | 16.28% | $59.2B |
| CVECenovus Energy Inc | $32.01 | 12.3x | 2.4x | 1.94% | 20.93% | $59.03B |
| MPLXMPLX LP | $58.18 | 12.6x | 4.2x | 7.41% | 33.69% | $58.99B |