On June 15, Occidental Petroleum fell 3.02% overnight, trading at $55.07/share, with turnover of $1.5341 million.
The decline came amid broad weakness across the Integrated Oil & Gas sector. Among peers, Exxon Mobil fell 2.18%, Chevron fell 1.90%, Cenovus Energy fell 4.74%, Shell fell 1.10%, and BP fell 1.85%. The sector-wide selloff extends a pattern of pressure observed in recent sessions, with international crude oil prices having pulled back notably in early June. Bloomberg Intelligence has noted that WTI crude may face mean-reversion headwinds, with uncertainty over whether prices can hold above key support levels amid elevated long-term Treasury yields.
Despite the near-term price weakness, Occidental has recently drawn bullish attention from Wall Street, with Barclays upgrading the stock to Overweight with a $72 target and Goldman Sachs upgrading to Neutral with a $64 target, citing the company's pivot toward free cash flow generation and deleveraging. Q1 adjusted EPS of $1.06 significantly beat expectations of $0.59, with free cash flow surging 52% year-over-year.
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