By the StockSemáforo model · Updated September 11, 2026
Energy depends heavily on oil and gas prices, which are outside companies' control. That's why what sets the best apart is cost discipline and the ability to generate cash —and sustain the dividend— even when prices fall.
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Occidental Petroleum is a major oil producer focused on the Permian Basin, famous for two things: having Warren Buffett as its anchor shareholder and betting harder than anyone on carbon capture as a future business.
See full analysis →86
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EOG Resources is one of the largest independent U.S.
See full analysis →PSX
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Phillips 66 is one of the big U.S.
See full analysis →82
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ConocoPhillips is one of the world's largest independent oil companies, focused on exploring and producing oil and gas (it doesn't do refining or gas stations).
See full analysis →81
quality /100
Valero is the reference 'pure' U.S.
See full analysis →81
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Cheniere Energy is America's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas: its giant Gulf Coast terminals chill American gas and ship it to Europe and Asia.
See full analysis →79
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Kinder Morgan runs one of the largest U.S.
See full analysis →DINO
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HF Sinclair is an independent refiner of the American interior, heir to the historic green-dinosaur brand: it refines gasoline and diesel for the Rockies and Midwest, makes lubricants and renewable fuel, and licenses its banner to thousands of gas stations.
See full analysis →DVN
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Devon Energy is an American shale oil and gas producer, based in the Delaware Basin.
See full analysis →PBF
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PBF Energy is a pure independent refiner: half a dozen plants buying crude and selling gasoline and diesel, living off the spread between the two.
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