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An industry chapter · Refining & Marketing

Refining & Marketing

24 members, 5019 to XOM, A to Z by ticker.

Gross profitability
median 20% — gross profit as a share of total assets, each member's median across its readable years; read on 14 of 24 members
Capital intensity
median 1.8% — capital expenditure as a share of revenue, each member's median across its readable years; read on 21 of 24 members
Net cash
1 of the 23 members with a readable debt line hold more cash and short-term investments than total debt

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5019 Idemitsu Kosan

A capital-intensive business, run on heavy physical assets that must be kept working and earn a return above what they cost to maintain.

Owner earnings 2017–2026 ¥12.1B¥78.7B¥74.8B(¥151.4B)¥49.4B¥51.4B(¥118.4B)¥306.5B¥390.2B¥296.5B

Retained capital Retained ¥742.9B of earnings over 2017–2026; annual owner earnings grew ¥275.9B, ¥0.37 per ¥1 retained.

Balance sheet Heavy net debt, ¥1.21T · dividend paid 10 of 10 yrs, cut at least once

5020 ENEOS Holdings

Revenue is led by Petroleum Products (88%) and Electricity (3%), with 2 more segments behind.

Owner earnings 2018–2026 ¥501.8B¥150.0B¥279.7B¥441.8B(¥21.3B)(¥403.0B)¥706.5B¥294.0B¥379.7B

Retained capital Retained ¥981.5B of earnings over 2018–2026; annual owner earnings grew ¥149.6B, ¥0.15 per ¥1 retained.

Balance sheet Meaningful net debt, ¥1.74T · dividend paid 9 of 9 yrs, never cut

BP BP p.l.c.

Revenue is led by Oil products (59%) and Natural Gas Products (14%), with 2 more lines behind.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 ($6.0B)$2.4B$6.2B$10.4B($144M)$12.7B$28.9B$17.8B$12.0B$11.3B

Retained capital Paid out $72.6B more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $12.8B.

Balance sheet Modest net debt, $17.9B · dividend paid 10 of 10 yrs

CAPL CrossAmerica Partners LP Common

We are one of the ten largest independent distributors by motor fuel volume in the United States for ExxonMobil, BP and Marathon, and we also distribute Shell, Valero and Phillips 66-branded motor fuels.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 $59M$76M$76M$48M$67M$54M$131M$82M$61M$56M

Retained capital Paid out $435M more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings fell $4M.

Balance sheet Heavy net debt, $694M · dividend paid 10 of 10 yrs, cut at least once

CLMT Calumet Inc.

We manufacture, formulate and market a diversified slate of specialty branded products and renewable fuels to customers across a broad range of consumer-facing and industrial markets.

Owner earnings 2022–2025 ($436M)($287M)($123M)$57M

Retained capital Paid out $381M more than it earned over 2022–2025; annual owner earnings grew $164M.

Balance sheet Heavy net debt, $2.1B

CVI CVR Energy Inc.

CVR Energy, Inc. is a diversified holding company, formed in September 2006, primarily engaged in the petroleum refining and marketing industry, the renewable fuels industry, and the nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing industry through its interest in CVR Partners, LP, a publicly traded limited partnership.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 $134M$128M$526M$626M($34M)$172M$776M$743M$225M($41M)

Retained capital Paid out $399M more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $46M.

Balance sheet Heavy net debt, $1.3B · dividend paid 9 of 10 yrs, cut at least once

CVX Chevron Corporation

Chevron is an integrated oil and gas company. It finds and pumps crude oil and natural gas, then ships, refines, and sells the fuels, lubricants, and petrochemicals made from them to buyers around the world. The bulk of what it sells is a commodity priced by global markets, so the cash it earns rises and falls with the price of oil and gas more than with anything the company decides.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 ($5.4B)$6.9B$16.8B$13.2B$1.7B$21.1B$37.6B$19.8B$15.0B$16.6B

Retained capital Paid out $39.4B more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $11.0B.

Balance sheet Meaningful net debt, $32.5B · buybacks at an average near $112 · dividend paid 10 of 10 yrs, never cut

DINO HF Sinclair

We provide petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to our refineries and the petroleum industry.

Owner earnings 2020–2025 $187M($97M)$3.3B$1.9B$640M$866M

Retained capital Retained $168M of earnings over 2020–2025; annual owner earnings grew $25M.

Balance sheet Modest net debt, $1.8B · buybacks at an average near $53.62 · dividend paid 6 of 6 yrs, cut at least once

DK Delek US Holdings

Our refining system produces a variety of petroleum-based products used in transportation and industrial markets, which are sold to a wide range of customers located principally in inland, domestic markets and which comply with current EPA clean fuels standards.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 $202M$148M$361M$381M($552M)$149M$145M$621M($495M)$138M

Retained capital Paid out $1.4B more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings fell $149M.

Balance sheet Heavy net debt, $2.6B · buybacks at an average near $33.15 · dividend paid 9 of 10 yrs, cut at least once

EQNR Equinor ASA

Revenue is led by Crude oil (55%) and Natural gas (24%), with 4 more lines behind.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 ($3.4B)$4.0B$8.3B$3.5B$1.9B$20.8B$26.4B$18.7B$9.8B$10.1B

Retained capital Retained $2.8B of earnings over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $9.9B.

Balance sheet Modest net debt, $6.8B · dividend paid 10 of 10 yrs, cut at least once

GLP Global Partners LP Common

We are one of the largest independent owners, suppliers and operators of gasoline stations and convenience stores, primarily in Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Maryland and Virginia.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 ($158M)$299M$100M$34M$274M($11M)$373M$424M($48M)$193M

Retained capital Retained $850M of earnings over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $110M, $0.13 per $1 retained.

Balance sheet Heavy net debt, $1.2B

HES Hess Corporation

An oil and gas business, whose fortunes rise and fall with a price it does not set.

Owner earnings 2015–2024 ($2.0B)($1.2B)($843M)$85M($791M)($563M)$1.3B$2.2B$1.9B$3.1B

Retained capital Paid out $13.5B more than it earned over 2015–2024; annual owner earnings grew $3.7B.

Balance sheet Modest net debt, $7.4B · buybacks at an average near $64.85 · dividend paid 3 of 10 yrs, never cut

IEP Icahn Enterprises L.P.

We are a diversified holding company owning subsidiaries currently engaged in the following continuing operating businesses: Investment, Energy, Automotive, Food Packaging, Real Estate, Home Fashion and Pharma.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 $971M($1.7B)$651M($1.7B)($615M)$16M$717M$3.4B$552M($654M)

Retained capital Paid out $3.0B more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $1.1B.

Balance sheet Net debt against an operating loss, $5.2B · dividend paid 5 of 10 yrs, cut at least once

MPC Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Marathon Petroleum buys crude oil and other feedstocks and runs them through large, complex refineries to make gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and related products, which it sells wholesale and through fuel stations carrying its brand. Around this core it runs a midstream business of pipelines, storage, gathering and processing that moves hydrocarbons for oil and gas producers, plus a smaller renewable diesel operation. The bulk of revenue, and nearly all the swing in profit, comes from refining and marketing.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 $2.0B$4.5B$4.0B$6.2B($368M)$2.9B$13.9B$12.2B$6.1B$4.8B

Retained capital Paid out $18.7B more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $4.2B.

Balance sheet Meaningful net debt, $29.6B · buybacks at an average near $97.46 · dividend paid 10 of 10 yrs, never cut

PBF PBF Energy

PBF Energy is an independent oil refiner. It buys crude oil, runs it through its refineries, and sells the refined fuels — gasoline, diesel and the like — to wholesale buyers and fuel distributors, with a single large customer accounting for a meaningful share of sales. Its profit is the spread between what it pays for the crude going in and what the finished products fetch going out.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 $508M$478M$630M$675M($828M)$228M$4.5B$1.0B($348M)($450M)

Retained capital Retained $2.6B of earnings over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings fell $463M, $-0.18 per $1 retained.

Balance sheet Net debt against an operating loss, $1.7B · dividend paid 4 of 10 yrs, never cut

PSX Phillips 66

Phillips 66 buys crude oil and other feedstocks and turns them into fuels — gasoline, diesel, jet fuel — which it sells to wholesalers and through branded service stations. It also moves crude and products through pipelines and terminals, and makes petrochemicals through a joint venture. Most of what it sells is a commodity, priced by the market rather than by the company.

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Balance sheet Meaningful net debt, $18.6B

PTLE PTL LTD

A diversified business; where the profit really comes from, and whether it is earned or bought, is what the segment detail settles.

Owner earnings not read

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SU Suncor Energy Inc.

Suncor Energy is Canada's leading integrated energy company.

Owner earnings not read

Retained capital not read

Balance sheet Modest net debt, C$5.9B

SUN Sunoco LP Common

Our fuel distribution operations distribute over 15 billion gallons annually to approximately 11,000 Sunoco and partner branded locations, as well as independent dealers and commercial customers.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 $147M$126M$344M$287M$378M$386M$375M$385M$205M$615M

Retained capital Retained $2.3B of earnings over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $196M, $0.08 per $1 retained.

Balance sheet Heavy net debt, $12.5B

SUNC SunocoCorp LLC Common

SunocoCorp is a Delaware publicly traded limited liability company that owns a direct limited partnership interest in Sunoco in the form of Sunoco Class D Units, all of which are held by SunocoCorp.

Owner earnings 2023–2025 $385M$205M$615M

Retained capital not read

Balance sheet Heavy net debt, $12.5B

UFG Uni-Fuels Holdings Limited

We are a global provider of marine fuel solutions to shipping companies headquartered in Singapore.

Owner earnings 2023–2025 ($998K)$323K($2M)

Retained capital not read

Balance sheet Net cash, debt-free, +$13M

VLO Valero Energy Corporation

Valero buys crude oil and other feedstocks and refines them into gasoline and the other fuels that move through pipelines and trucks. It runs a network of refineries, sells the output into wholesale fuel markets, and also produces renewable diesel. The money is the spread between what the feedstock costs and what the refined fuel fetches, run across very large, very expensive plants.

Owner earnings 2016–2024 $3.5B$4.1B$2.3B$3.3B($1.5B)$3.4B$9.8B$7.3B$4.6B

Retained capital Retained $3.8B of earnings over 2016–2024; annual owner earnings grew $3.9B, $1.05 per $1 retained.

Balance sheet Modest net debt, $5.9B · dividend paid 9 of 9 yrs, never cut

WKC World Kinect

World Kinect is a fuel middleman. It buys petroleum products and resells them to the commercial operators that burn them, and wraps each sale in services such as supply logistics, credit, and payment handling. Almost all of what it books as revenue is fuel passing through; the company keeps only a thin margin on the spread plus fees for those services.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 $15M($188M)($255M)$148M$553M$134M$60M$184M$192M$227M

Retained capital Paid out $804M more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $344M.

Balance sheet Net debt against an operating loss, $686M · buybacks at an average near $33.83 · dividend paid 10 of 10 yrs, never cut

XOM Exxon Mobil Corporation

Exxon Mobil is an integrated oil company. It finds and pumps crude oil and natural gas, refines them into fuels and lubricants, and turns the same molecules into petrochemicals — the building blocks of plastics — selling to businesses and motorists in the United States and most countries of the world. It makes its money on the spread between what it costs to get a barrel out of the ground and through a plant, and the price the market pays for what comes out.

Owner earnings 2016–2025 $5.9B$14.7B$16.4B$10.7B($2.6B)$36.1B$58.4B$33.5B$30.7B$23.6B

Retained capital Paid out $6.2B more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $16.9B.

Balance sheet Modest net debt, $23.6B · buybacks at an average near $105 · dividend paid 10 of 10 yrs, never cut

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