CONOCOPHILLIPS vs Exxon Mobil Corporation, two Oil & Gas Refining stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where COP and XOM diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), COP reads -3.6% and XOM reads +0.6%; on revenue growth, COP reads +1.9% and XOM reads -4.2%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's COP price has a different growth bar priced in than XOM (-3.6% implied for COP vs +0.6% for XOM); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | COP | XOM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $120.48 | $136.40 |
| Market cap | $147.6B | $573.2B |
| Sector | Oil & Gas Refining | Oil & Gas Refining |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -3.6% | +0.6% |
| P/E | 20.4 | 23.0 |
| P/B | 2.29 | 2.20 |
| P/S | 2.54 | 1.71 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.2 | 21.4 |
| Revenue growth | +1.9% | -4.2% |
| Net margin | 12.6% | 7.6% |
| Return on equity | 11.3% | 9.7% |
| Return on assets | 6.0% | 5.5% |
| FCF yield | 12.2% | 3.3% |
| Dividend yield | 2.6% | 2.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.02 | 0.06 |
| Current ratio | 1.29 | 1.04 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.83 | 3.87 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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