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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $233.16 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $19.97B 32% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $20.79B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Conflict-driven tightness persists, Hess and Permian volume compounds at the top of the 2-3% band, and the cost programme keeps overdelivering: $3B of structural savings landed six months early and Hess synergies came in 50% above target inside a year. Management's own bull framing is the 2030 objective of greater than 10% average annual adjusted free cash flow growth at flat prices below today's, which makes it a volume-and-cost claim rather than a price claim. The +0.7% delta plus an 8.0x exit gets there.

International Downstream

Basis quarter$25.57B
Final quarter$19.97B
Implied CAGR−5%
Final revenue mix32%

Refining, marketing and lubricants outside the United States, with crude unit inputs of 598 MBD in the basis quarter after a 10% fall the company attributes to Middle East supply disruption. Refined product sales of 1,287 MBD are more than twice the crude run, so reported revenue per input barrel moves with the sales-to-throughput mix as much as with price.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $16.48B Reported
2025 Q4 $16.12B Estimated
2026 Q1 $17.94B Reported
2026 Q2 $25.57B Reported
Refined product salesMarketing and lubricantsCrude and product trading
Units 54418000/qtr growing +1.2% per quarter 54.4M bbl of crude unit input: the 598 MBD left after a 10% drop on Middle East supply disruption.
Price per unit $470 drifting −11.5% per quarter $469.86 per input barrel is a mix artefact - runs fell, product sales held - and reverts toward $305.
International Downstream

Latest: $19.97B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $17.70B
2024Q2 $20.09B
2024Q3 $19.29B
2024Q4 $18.79B
2025Q1 $16.82B
2025Q2 $16.50B
2025Q3 $16.48B
2025Q4 $16.12B
2026Q1 $17.94B
2026Q2 $25.57B
2026Q3E $23.06B
2026Q4E $21.42B
2027Q1E $20.34B
2027Q2E $19.62B
2027Q3E $19.14B
2027Q4E $18.84B
2028Q1E $18.66B
2028Q2E $18.57B
2028Q3E $18.55B
2028Q4E $18.58B
2029Q1E $18.65B
2029Q2E $18.74B
2029Q3E $18.86B
2029Q4E $18.99B
2030Q1E $19.13B
2030Q2E $19.29B
2030Q3E $19.45B
2030Q4E $19.62B
2031Q1E $19.80B
2031Q2E $19.97B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Chevron has signed an agreement to sell its 50% interest in Singapore Refining Company along with downstream assets in Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, expected to close in 2027. It has not sized the revenue that removes, so the model does not step the base down for it; the bear case carries it as an unquantified reduction.
  • The $469.86 basis price per input barrel is a mix artefact more than a margin: crude runs fell 10% while product sales fell only 13% from a much larger base, so the ratio jumped. It glides back toward $305, near the 2024-2025 average.
  • The Hong Kong fuels and lubricants business was sold in the basis quarter for about $290 million of proceeds, and the quarter also carried a $230M asset-sale gain that will not repeat.
  • A one-off level step would be the right shape for the 2027 disposal, but the unit driver builds revenue from units and price and never reads the base, so baseShiftPct cannot move it. The bear case carries the reduction as a compounding growth delta instead.
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