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Chevron (CVX · NYSE)

Supermajor — HQ United States. Oil & gas valuation, proved reserves, production, break-even, net-asset-value and jurisdiction-risk screen.
Category SupermajorRegion N. AmericaCEO Mike Wirth (2018)Jurisdiction risk Med (42)

Overview

Chevron is a US supermajor (~$385bn cap), FY2025 production ~3.7 mmboe/d and 10.6 bnboe proved reserves, spanning the Permian and DJ basins, deepwater Gulf of America, Kazakhstan's giant Tengiz complex (TCO/FGP), Australian LNG (Gorgon/Wheatstone) and East Med gas. The 2023 ~$7.6bn PDC deal deepened its low-cost Lower-48 shale; the ~$53bn all-stock Hess acquisition completed mid-2025 added ~30% of Guyana's Stabroek block plus Bakken shale.

FY2025 earnings fell ~30% to $12.5bn on softer crude, lifting P/E to a cyclically high ~31x, though EV/EBITDA (~10x) and a ~4% FCF yield are more moderate; net debt rose to ~$34bn from consolidating Hess. CEO Mike Wirth (since 2018) has 39 consecutive years of dividend growth and sizeable buybacks. Flags: Tengiz/Kazakhstan concentration, geopolitical exposure, and Hess integration/leverage.

Valuation snapshot (FY2025)

Market cap
$385bn
Enterprise value
$420bn
EV / EBITDA
10.2x
P / E
31.3x
FCF yield
4.3%
Dividend yield
3.7%
ROACE
6%
Debt / equity
22%
Net debt / EBITDA
0.8x
EV / reserves
$39.63/boe
EV / flowing
$113k/boe/d
Free cash flow
$16.6bn

Its EV/EBITDA of 10.2x is above the 5.9x median across the 142-company universe, the free-cash-flow yield of 4.3% is lower than the 6.5% median, and at $39.63/boe of proved reserves it is richer than the $13.51/boe median.

On a balanced screen across the universe, Chevron scores 32/100, strongest on safety (57/100). Sub-scores: value 20, quality 24, growth 39, risk 43 (higher = riskier).

Reserves & production

Chevron holds approximately 10.59 billion boe of proved (1P) reserves with FY2025 production of about 3,723 thousand boe/d (54% liquids), a reserve life of roughly 7.8 years. Break-even: ~$50/bbl (FCF break-even (Brent, covers capex + dividend)) — Chevron targets funding its capital program and dividend at roughly $50/bbl Brent as Tengiz FGP and low-cost shale scale up; all-in cash breakeven sits nearer the mid-$50s to low-$60s.

Net asset value (public-source floor)

Using Chevron's SEC-disclosed after-tax standardized measure of proved reserves ($98.0bn) less net debt ($34.5bn) gives an equity-NAV floor of about $63.5bn — the current market capitalisation sits +507% versus that floor. Disclosed pre-tax PV-10: —. This is a floor: proved reserves only, excluding undeveloped inventory, downstream and other business lines. Proved-reserve NAV is upstream-only; excludes Downstream refining & marketing and the CPChem petrochemicals JV.

Jurisdiction risk · production-weighted country risk

42 /100
Medium jurisdiction risk
Production-weighted average of the country scores below (0 = safest, 100 = riskiest).
Country / regionProd. shareCountry riskKey jurisdiction risk
United States40%23Stable, deep; federal-lands leasing and permitting policy swings.
Kazakhstan18%64Export-route (CPC) dependence on Russia, contract disputes.
Other13%50diversified/unspecified exposure — universe-average proxy
Australia10%10Stable; rising carbon/PRRT tax scrutiny and approvals delays.
Guyana8%60World-class offshore; Venezuela Essequibo claim, capacity risk.
Nigeria6%89Theft/sabotage, subsidy reform, PIA transition, security.
Angola5%76High debt, FX/repatriation risk, mature declining fields.
How this is scored. Each country's risk (0–100) is anchored to two named public indices — the OECD Country Risk Classification (0–7 official export-credit country risk) and the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (Political Stability & Absence of Violence percentile) — blended 55/45 and rescaled to 0–100. A company's jurisdiction risk is the production-weighted average across the countries where it operates. This is a pure country measure, kept separate from company & financial risk (leverage, governance). Source: OECD Country Risk Classification (CRC) as of 24 July 2025, sourced via the German Federal Export Credit Guarantees (exportkreditgarantien.de) which applies the OECD consensus country risk category directly (values 0-7; 0 = lowest risk). High-income OECD members are not individually rated by the OECD and are set to crc=0 per the model spec (US, UK, Norway, Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ, and most of Europe incl. OECD members Israel, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Lithuania, Ireland). 'ps' = World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) 'Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism' percentile rank, latest available (2023 vintage), 0-100 with higher = more stable; ps values are best sourced estimates rounded to the WGI percentile scale. Yemen not on OECD list ('./.') so crc estimated at 7. Iraq-Kurdistan and Falklands are non-standard model rows using judgment, not official OECD entries..

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Key assets & projects

AssetLocationTypeNotes
Tengiz (TCO / FGP-WPMP)KazakhstanOnshore oil50% Chevron; Future Growth Project ramped in 2025 toward ~1 mmbbl/d field capacity
Permian BasinUnited StatesUnconventional shaleRecord net output approaching ~1 mmboe/d; core low-cost growth engine
DJ BasinUnited StatesUnconventional oil/gasColorado acreage acquired via PDC Energy (2023)
Gulf of America deepwaterUnited StatesOffshore oilAnchor, Whale and Ballymore high-pressure developments
Gorgon & Wheatstone LNGAustraliaLNGOperated long-life LNG hubs; Gorgon includes carbon capture
Stabroek BlockGuyanaOffshore oil~30% interest acquired via Hess (2025); ExxonMobil-operated, multi-bnboe
BakkenUnited StatesUnconventional shaleAdded through the Hess acquisition (2025)
LeviathanIsraelOffshore gasEast Med gas exports (via the 2020 Noble Energy acquisition)

Five-year trend (FY2021–FY2025)

Metric20212022202320242025
Production (mboe/d)30993000312033003723
Proved reserves (bnboe)11.2011.2011.109.8010.59
Revenue ($bn)162.5246.3200.9202.8189.0
EBITDA ($bn)38.074.048.044.041.1
Net income ($bn)15.635.521.417.712.3
Free cash flow ($bn)21.037.619.815.116.6

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Sources

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