Occidental Petroleum (OPC) Stock Price & Analysis
OPC Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 56.98 - EUR 57.27
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 32.98 - EUR 57.84
- Previous Close
- EUR 56.06
- Volume
- 2,383
- Average Volume (3M)
- 2,559
- Market Cap
- EUR 57.09B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 68.54B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 4.15B
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 14.63B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 9.6
- Beta
- -0.20
- Next Earnings
- Nov 09, 2026 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 1.29
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- Dec 10, 2026
- Dividend Yield
- 1.57%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Improved Earnings And Margins
The return to revenue growth alongside strong current margins indicates improving operating performance and renewed earnings momentum. Although energy profits remain cyclical, this combination provides greater internal funding capacity for debt reduction, capital investment, and shareholder distributions over the coming quarters.
Debt Reduction And Lower Interest Burden
Meaningful deleveraging strengthens financial resilience by reducing recurring interest costs and refinancing exposure. Lower debt gives Occidental more flexibility to withstand commodity volatility, sustain capital spending, and direct future cash generation toward strategic priorities and shareholder returns.
Large Resource Base And Efficiency Runway
A large resource base supports long-term production continuity, while cost reductions and planned decline-rate improvements can expand the cash generated from existing assets. These operating advantages provide a durable foundation for maintaining competitiveness and improving returns across the next several years.
Bears Say
Commodity-driven Earnings Volatility
The wide historical margin range demonstrates that profitability is highly sensitive to oil, gas, and chemical market conditions. This makes earnings and cash flow less predictable than those of a defensive business, complicating planning and increasing the risk that strong current margins normalize.
Weak Recent Cash Conversion
Positive free cash flow is supportive, but its shortfall relative to net income indicates that recent accounting earnings are not converting cleanly into distributable cash. If this pattern persists, it could constrain debt repayment, investment capacity, and the reliability of planned shareholder distributions.
Project Execution And Allocation Constraints
Delayed Stratos commissioning could defer expected low-carbon contribution and increase execution uncertainty during the transition to operations in 2027. Separately, prioritizing debt and preferred redemption limits the near-term scope for large buybacks, reducing flexibility in capital allocation.
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Company Description
Occidental Petroleum
Occidental Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and gas properties in the United States and internationally. It operates through Oil and Gas and Midstream and Marketing. The Oil and Gas segment explores for, develops, and produces oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and natural gas. This segment also optimizes its transportation and storage capacity and invests in entities. The Midstream and Marketing segment purchases, markets, gathers, processes, transports and stores oil, condensate, NGLs, natural gas, carbon dioxide, and power. Occidental Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Exploration & Production
- CEO
- Richard A. Jackson
- Employees
- 10,412
- Website
- www.oxy.com
- Address
- 5 Greenway Plaza, Houston, TX, 77046-0521, US
Occidental Petroleum (OPC) Earnings & Revenues
OPC Company Deck
OPC Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call presented a predominantly positive operational and financial picture: strong Q2 free cash flow ($3.0B), meaningful debt reduction, an 8% dividend increase, production outperformance, and a detailed plan to achieve ~$4.0B of sustainable annual cash flow by 2030. Near-term headwinds include Middle East disruptions, Q3 midstream normalization as gas spreads narrow, temporary maintenance/seasonal impacts in the Gulf of America and Rockies, and Stratos commissioning timing risks. Management emphasized disciplined capital allocation (debt paydown prioritized over buybacks) and substantial structural cost and decline‑rate improvements, with ~85% of planned cash flow gains expected to be resilient to lower prices. Overall, highlights materially outweigh the lowlights, with lowlights framed as manageable or timing-related risks rather than structural declines.
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Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 14 | 6 | 2 |
| Technical Analysis | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Moving Averages | 12 | 0 | 0 |