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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.
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 capitalPaid out $381M more than it earned over 2022–2025; annual owner earnings grew $164M.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Retained capitalPaid out $6.2B more than it earned over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings grew $16.9B.
Balance sheetModest net debt, $23.6B · buybacks at an average near $105 · dividend paid 10 of 10 yrs, never cut
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