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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $87.39 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $46.58B 69% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $52.49B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The disruption ends. Brent returns from $104.52 to the $63.69-69.07 of 4Q25 and 3Q25 and the indicative refining margin from $29.0/bbl to $17.5-18.3, which at the disclosed sensitivities of $700M and $800M of annual earnings per $1/bbl removes roughly $25-28B and $9B of annualised earnings. This case needs no demand recession. The disclosed Strait of Hormuz downside - about 750 koebd of Middle East production against 2025 if the Strait stayed closed through 3Q26 - is a single-quarter outage that no persistent level step can represent, so it is carried here as a deeper and faster price and margin reversion rather than as a volume step.

Energy Products

Basis quarter$89.98B
Final quarter$46.58B
Implied CAGR−12%
Final revenue mix69%

Refineries convert crude into fuels and the monetisation metric is the indicative refining margin per barrel. Energy Products carried 77.6% of consolidated revenue in the basis quarter and is where the 2026 Q2 windfall actually landed, so the model's revenue path is more sensitive to this one line than to the other four combined.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $62.86B Reported
2025 Q4 $62.68B Estimated
2026 Q1 $63.75B Reported
2026 Q2 $89.98B Reported
Gasolines and naphthasHeating oils, kerosene and dieselAviation fuelsHeavy fuelsOther energy products including trading and optimisation
Units 518518000/qtr growing 0.0% per quarter 518.5M barrels in 2026 Q2: the disclosed 5,698 kbd of product sales across 91 days.
Price per unit $174 drifting −11.0% per quarter $173.53 per barrel sold on a $29.0/bbl refining margin; reverts toward the $118-125 of the 2025 quarters.
Energy Products

Latest: $46.58B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $64.33B
2024Q2 $69.56B
2024Q3 $66.65B
2024Q4 $60.83B
2025Q1 $60.08B
2025Q2 $60.13B
2025Q3 $62.86B
2025Q4 $62.68B
2026Q1 $63.75B
2026Q2 $89.98B
2026Q3E $79.12B
2026Q4E $71.98B
2027Q1E $67.06B
2027Q2E $63.53B
2027Q3E $60.91B
2027Q4E $58.88B
2028Q1E $57.26B
2028Q2E $55.92B
2028Q3E $54.77B
2028Q4E $53.77B
2029Q1E $52.87B
2029Q2E $52.04B
2029Q3E $51.27B
2029Q4E $50.53B
2030Q1E $49.82B
2030Q2E $49.14B
2030Q3E $48.48B
2030Q4E $47.83B
2031Q1E $47.20B
2031Q2E $46.58B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • The volume driver is product sales of 5,698 kbd rather than refinery throughput of 3,562 kbd, because product sales is the only Energy Products volume disclosed on one basis for all ten reconciling quarters and it produces a stable series: $118-144 per barrel in the nine ordinary quarters against $173.53 in the basis quarter.
  • The research brief asked whether the jump in other energy products, 2,356 kbd against 1,158 in 1Q26, is a trading swing that inflates the denominator. Total product sales moved only 1.2% sequentially, from 5,630 to 5,698 kbd, while revenue per barrel rose 39%, so the trading swing did not distort the unit and throughput was not needed instead.
  • The 13.47% starting EBITDA margin is above the 9.4% the segment earns on its own because it carries the $3,664M of Upstream EBITDA that the 100% margin cap on that vertical cannot hold. The credit shrinks as Brent normalises, which is why the margin glides to 9.16% rather than staying flat; the first projected quarter already prints 12.6%.
  • At the disclosed $800M of annual earnings per $1/bbl, the indicative refining margin returning from $29.0 to the $17.5-18.3 of 3Q25 and 4Q25 removes roughly $9B of annualised earnings, and that reversion is what the price drift encodes.
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