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Chevron Is Up Nearly 57% in 2026. Is Its Dividend Safer Than ConocoPhillips’?

Yahoo Finance (XLE, crude)·Oct 29, 2026 · 9:48 AM CT
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With Brent crude averaging about $104 a barrel in the second quarter, both Chevron and ConocoPhillips are paying out a lot of cash, and Chevron's stock is up 56.79% year to date at $232.51.

The piece compares the two for retirement income. Chevron is an integrated major that produces oil, refines it and makes chemicals, with U.S. refineries at 97% utilization; when crude falls, cheaper feedstock can soften the blow. ConocoPhillips is a pure exploration and production company whose revenue moves with commodity prices, and its realized price of $62.33 per barrel of oil equivalent rose 36% year over year.

The author notes one of the two cut its dividend by 66% the last time oil prices collapsed, a reminder that the same price leverage works in reverse.

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