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Occidental Petroleum Corp

OXYNYSE

SectorEnergy

IndustryOil & Gas Exploration & Production

Beta (adjusted)0.44

Intrinsic Value $97.56median of 6 methods · middle span $54-$218based on filings through 30 Jun 2026

Market Price $57.84Price as of 1 Oct 2026

Significantly undervaluedIntrinsic value is 69% above the market price

−50% · IV below pricenear fair value ±15%IV above price · +50%

marker beyond scale (+69%)

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Market Cap $57.8B

Enterprise Value $67.2B

Shares Outstanding 1B diluted

Moat Rating Narrow

Next Earnings Date9 Nov 2026

Last ex-dividend10 Sep 2026

All prices and values are periodic snapshots, not live quotes. Source dates are shown for reference.

Thesis

Street consensus, scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggers

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Thesis Summary

Occidental enters the second half of 2026 with substantially lower leverage, strong production execution and unusually high recent free cash flow. Principal debt declined to $11.8 billion, global production exceeded guidance at 1.433 million BOE per day, and second-quarter free cash flow before working capital reached $3.0 billion. The OxyChem sale sharpened the portfolio around oil, gas, midstream and carbon-management activities and funded rapid deleveraging, but it also removed a diversifying chemicals earnings stream while leaving Occidental responsible for specified legacy environmental liabilities. The resulting equity case offers meaningful upside if operating efficiencies and the 2030 cash-flow program are delivered, but commodity-price sensitivity, execution risk and retained liabilities keep the risk/reward balanced rather than compelling.

This section is the 12-month view: analyst targets and the probability-weighted scenarios built from them. The intrinsic value at the top of this page answers a different question: what the business is worth today.

Street view · analyst 12-month targets23 analysts · as of 18 Aug 2026

Low · most bearish analyst$55.00

Mean target$66.17

High · most bullish analyst$79.00

Our research · scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggersResearch as of 2 Sep 2026

Scenarios · 12-month scenario targetsAnchored at research date

Bear CaseDownside scenario

$45.0019%

Oil and gas prices normalize materially below the strong second-quarter 2026 environment, production falls below 1.35 million BOE per day on a sustained basis, and quarterly free cash flow contracts below $1 billion. Deleveraging stalls or reverses, while retained OxyChem environmental obligations and low-carbon project execution consume more cash than expected.

Base CaseCentral scenario

$66.1757%

Matches the consensus mean

Production remains near 1.4 million BOE per day, debt declines more gradually toward the stated $10 billion milestone, and only part of the 2030 cash-flow opportunity is recognized in the near-term valuation. Strong operations and a higher dividend are balanced by normal commodity volatility, the loss of OxyChem diversification and execution requirements across the remaining portfolio.

Bull CaseUpside scenario

$79.0024%

Occidental reaches its $10 billion principal-debt milestone, sustains production around or above the second-quarter 2026 level, and converts its efficiency and capital-intensity initiatives into more than $4 billion of incremental annual sustainable cash flow by 2030. Continued Permian and Gulf execution, including successful commercialization of discoveries such as Bandit, supports durable free cash flow and expanding shareholder distributions.

Scenarios are anchored to street consensus at the research date, with our probabilities and rationale.

Key Investment Merits

Rapid deleveraging reduced principal debt to $11.8 billion by the second quarter of 2026, approaching the stated $10.0 billion milestone.
Second-quarter 2026 operating performance was strong: production reached 1.433 million BOE per day and free cash flow before working capital from continuing operations was $3.0 billion.
Management has identified a pathway to more than $4.0 billion of incremental annual sustainable cash flow by 2030, while the Bandit discovery adds longer-term Gulf portfolio optionality.

Key Investment Risks

Cash flow remains highly commodity-sensitive: second-quarter realized crude prices increased 38% sequentially, while domestic realized natural-gas prices were negative.
The OxyChem divestiture removed a diversifying business, and Occidental retained specified historical tort claims and environmental liabilities requiring remediation spending over many years.
The 2030 cash-flow objective and lower-carbon investments require sustained execution; project delays, permitting changes or weaker-than-expected operating efficiencies could reduce returns.

All scenarios are estimates and subject to change. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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