Promising Oil Stocks To Keep An Eye On - April 21st

Key Points

• MarketBeat's screener highlights five oil stocks to watch: ExxonMobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), Halliburton (HAL), Valero Energy (VLO), and Occidental Petroleum (OXY), which had the highest dollar trading volume among oil names in recent days.
• Oil stocks typically move with crude prices and are sensitive to geopolitics, supply/demand shifts, and regulation, making them cyclical but often attractive to income-seeking investors because many pay dividends.
• These companies span diverse industry exposure—integrated majors, oilfield services, refiners, and producers—offering different risk and return profiles tied to upstream, downstream, and midstream operations.

ExxonMobil, Chevron, Halliburton, Valero Energy, and Occidental Petroleum are the five Oil stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Oil stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary businesses involve exploration, production, refining, transportation, or servicing of crude oil and petroleum products — including integrated majors, independent producers, pipelines, and oilfield services firms. They tend to move with crude oil prices and are affected by geopolitical events, supply/demand fundamentals, and regulation, making them cyclically sensitive but often attractive to income-seeking investors because many pay dividends. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Oil stocks within the last several days.

ExxonMobil (XOM)

ExxonMobil Corporation engages in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas in the United States and internationally. It operates through Upstream, Energy Products, Chemical Products, and Specialty Products segments. The Upstream segment explores for and produces crude oil and natural gas.

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Chevron (CVX)

Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the integrated energy and chemicals operations in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Upstream and Downstream. The Upstream segment is involved in the exploration, development, production, and transportation of crude oil and natural gas; processing, liquefaction, transportation, and regasification of liquefied natural gas; transportation of crude oil through pipelines; transportation, storage, and marketing of natural gas; and carbon capture and storage, as well as a gas-to-liquids plant.

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Halliburton (HAL)

Halliburton Company provides products and services to the energy industry worldwide. It operates through two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment offers production enhancement services that include stimulation and sand control services; cementing services, such as well bonding and casing, and casing equipment; and completion tools that offer downhole solutions and services, including well completion products and services, intelligent well completions, and service tools, as well as liner hanger, sand control, and multilateral systems.

Read Our Latest Research Report on HAL

Valero Energy (VLO)

Valero Energy Corporation manufactures, markets, and sells petroleum-based and low-carbon liquid transportation fuels and petrochemical products in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Refining, Renewable Diesel, and Ethanol.

Read Our Latest Research Report on VLO

Occidental Petroleum (OXY)

Occidental Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and gas properties in the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa. It operates through three segments: Oil and Gas, Chemical, and Midstream and Marketing. The company's Oil and Gas segment explores for, develops, and produces oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and natural gas.

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