Oil & Gas Majors vs XLE
2 of 5 oil & gas majors headliners beat XLE over the last year (0 of 5 over six months, 0 of 5 over three). Every line is measured against the benchmark itself, so the zero line is XLE.
Weekly closes through 2026-09-14. The zero line is the benchmark: a name "beats" when its total return over the window is higher than XLE's. Rebuilt every morning.
Total return
| Name | 6M | vs bench | 1Y | vs bench | 3Y | vs bench | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XLE benchmark | +8.7% | 0 | +45.7% | 0 | +44.4% | 0 | — |
| XOM | +3.3% | -5.4 | +46.2% | +0.5 | +43.5% | -0.9 | 2021-09 |
| CVX | +5.5% | -3.2 | +36.2% | -9.5 | +28.0% | -16.4 | 2021-09 |
| COP | +7.9% | -0.8 | +49.0% | +3.3 | +14.9% | -29.5 | 2021-09 |
| OXY | +1.8% | -6.9 | +34.1% | -11.6 | -1.7% | -46.1 | 2021-09 |
| EOG | +6.9% | -1.8 | +27.8% | -17.9 | +20.9% | -23.5 | 2021-09 |
A name whose history starts inside a window is measured from its first bar, not the window start — the "Since" column says where.
Headliners
Benchmarks available on the dashboard: XLE, XOP.
The wider oil & gas majors universe
The dashboard's Sleepers view screens these 21 lesser-covered names for the ones beating XOP on a trailing basis, with liquidity, price and coverage floors so nothing untradeable or already crowded gets through.
Other baskets
Interactive chart with 6M–5Y windows, relative / indexed / drawdown modes and the sleeper screen: Baskets tab.
How the grading works
Every sell-side rating change from the last 365 days is priced the day it lands and checked again 30, 60 and 90 days later. A call is a hit when the stock moved in the called direction at 30 days. Buy- and Sell-side ratings call their own direction. A Hold is read, not waved through: a downgrade to Hold is graded as a bearish call and an upgrade to Hold as a bullish one, and a maintained Hold whose price target sits 10%+ above the price leans bullish (10%+ below, leans bearish) and is graded that way. A Hold with a target close to the price is a true Hold and is not graded at all. Every call with a price target also gets a target check 90 days later: hit (reached it or within 5%), close (covered at least half the distance) or missed. A firm's accuracy on a single name prints only after 4 scored calls, and a firm gets its own page only after 10 scored calls across every covered name — below that a percentage is noise. "Run before the call" is the stock's move over the 30 calendar days before the rating landed. Data: Yahoo Finance rating history and daily closes, rebuilt each morning. Nothing on this page is advice.
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