Company Analysis

ConocoPhillips (COP)

NYSE: COP · Petroleum Refining · Houston, TX · filing with the SEC since 2001
Grade6.0
◀ Past 5.5● Present 6.5▶ Future 6.0

The grade of ConocoPhillips

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.0/10
◀ Past5.540% of the headline
● Present6.535% of the headline
▶ Future6.025% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.5/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
6.7/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 67th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

ConocoPhillips' filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+10.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 7 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 49th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

ConocoPhillips' 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $24 billion in fiscal 2016 to $59 billion in fiscal 2025, up 10.3% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 51% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span10.3%top 21% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 38% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak51.5%bottom 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.6% a year. 49% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 15 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 38th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, ConocoPhillips' diluted share count shrank about 0.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 49% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 15 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $500 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 27% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.5/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 12%: 12¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 47%: owes 47¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 59th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, ConocoPhillips earned about 12 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 30 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 47 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 6.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 11% of its family
  • return on equitytop 42% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 14% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 34% of 17 in its family; net margin 13.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 66th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

ConocoPhillips' standing among 17 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $59 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 43% by size; a net margin of 13.6% ranks in the top 3%; revenue growth of -9.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 44% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$58.94Btop 43% of its family
  • net margin13.6%top 3% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-9.1%bottom 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.4/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 26% of 10 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2013.

weight 22% of this tense · 74th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

ConocoPhillips' leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Lance, Ryan Michael (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2013-01-11, 13.8 years (top 5% of its family); the 23 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.3 years (top 35%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 23 people in charge now (top 37%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge8 in three years among 23 peopletop 37% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed6.3 yearstop 35% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record13.8 yearstop 5% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.0/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
6.6/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 34% of 16 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 66th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

ConocoPhillips' room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $6.5 billion against debt of $22 billion leaves -13.1% of its assets as net cash, top 50% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 33.6% of revenue (top 3%); a gross margin of 62.1% (top 4%); research spending of 0.1% of revenue (bottom 21%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-13.1%top 50% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue33.6%top 3% of its family
  • gross margin62.1%top 4% of its family
  • research spending against revenue0.1%bottom 21% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 41% of 17 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

ConocoPhillips' growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -9.1% a year over the last three filed years against 10.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 21% of its family); the newest year grew 7.7% (top 15%); research spending grew 3.2% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew 15.2% a year (top 21%) (its annual reports). ConocoPhillips reported 6 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Lower Forty Eight at $41 billion (70%), Europe Middle East and North Africa at $6.5 billion (11%), Alaska at $5.6 billion (10%), and 3 more; 4 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-19.4 points a yearbottom 21% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth7.7%top 15% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending3.2%top 50% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending15.2%top 21% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.7/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 43% of 16 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 57th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

ConocoPhillips' newest year against its own record: revenue of $59 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 28.9% above the $46 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 3% of its family); net income of $8.0 billion against a prior three-year average of $13 billion (top 41%); a net margin of 13.6% against 20.1% before (bottom 16%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace28.9%top 3% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-38%top 41% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-6.5 pointsbottom 16% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton COP · research, not advice