By the StockSemáforo model · Updated September 11, 2026

Best energy stocks

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.

This ranking sorts by fundamental quality, not by whether a stock is cheap or expensive: an excellent company can be expensive. To find the fair price, enter its quote in the analyzer. The scores recompute on their own with each new SEC filing.

90

quality /100

Margin 30.6%ROE 17.5%Growth 5.5%FCF 20%Debt/EBITDA 0.66x

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.

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86

quality /100

Margin 25.4%ROE 21.6%Growth 17.7%FCF 47.3%Debt/EBITDA 0.22x

EOG Resources is one of the largest independent U.S.

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84

quality /100

Margin 4.7%ROE 22.5%Growth 17%

Phillips 66 is one of the big U.S.

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82

quality /100

Margin 14.7%ROE 14.2%Growth 24.8%Debt/EBITDA 0.61x

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).

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81

quality /100

Margin 5.2%ROE 28.8%Growth 14.9%FCF 6.4%Debt/EBITDA 0.26x

Valero is the reference 'pure' U.S.

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81

quality /100

Margin 13.6%ROE 47.1%Growth 16.3%FCF 13%Debt/EBITDA 2.94x

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.

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79

quality /100

Margin 19.3%ROE 11%Growth 8.1%FCF 17.6%Debt/EBITDA 4.18x

Kinder Morgan runs one of the largest U.S.

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78

quality /100

Margin 6.1%ROE 18.6%Growth 20.5%FCF 7.4%Debt/EBITDA 0.15x

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.

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77

quality /100

Margin 16.7%ROE 7.9%Growth 29.1%FCF 23.9%Debt/EBITDA 1.19x

Devon Energy is an American shale oil and gas producer, based in the Delaware Basin.

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76

quality /100

Margin 3.9%ROE 21.1%Growth 16.1%FCF 2.2%Debt/EBITDA 0.36x

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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Data: official SEC filings (EDGAR) · Recomputed on September 11, 2026

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