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Chevron did the thing analysts like
Chevron just turned in a better-than-expected second quarter, with adjusted EPS of $6.06 easily beating the $5.56 estimate and revenue landing at $70.06 billion versus the $61.97 billion expected. That’s the kind of beat that makes analysts reach for the price-target update button.
Wall Street says: okay, fair enough
Barclays’ Betty Jiang kept an Equal-Weight rating and lifted her target from $213 to $216. Bernstein’s Bob Brackett stayed at Market Perform and moved his target from $204 to $209. Translation: nobody’s exactly yelling “to the moon,” but the mood got a little friendlier after Chevron showed it can still run a very profitable energy machine.
Why investors should care
Chevron said the quarter was helped by record U.S. upstream production, record crude throughput in U.S. refineries, and strong asset reliability. In plain English: the company is pumping, refining, and executing like a champ while geopolitics and market volatility keep doing their usual chaos routine.
The stock fell 0.8% to $195.38 on Monday, which is a reminder that great earnings don’t always get a standing ovation right away. But when analysts raise targets after a beat, it usually means the market is being told, gently but firmly, that the story may still have legs.
Big picture: Chevron isn’t exactly trading like a meme stock. It’s more of a “quietly cash-generating giant with a toolbox full of oil-market leverage” kind of story — and Wall Street just gave that toolbox a slightly better appraisal.