ExxonMobil Q3 2026 net income rises to $15.4B
Third-quarter cash flow from operating activities was $25.650 billion, alongside $9.4 billion in shareholder distributions.
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Rhea-AI Filing Summary
ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation (XOM) reported third-quarter 2026 net income attributable to ExxonMobil of $15.413 billion and $3.72 per share, versus $7.548 billion and $1.76 a year earlier. Revenue and other income was $113.164 billion, versus $85.294 billion; adjusted earnings were $17.505 billion, or $4.23 per share. Cash flow from operating activities was $25.650 billion, and free cash flow was $19.109 billion. Shareholder distributions totaled $9.4 billion: $4.3 billion in dividends and $5.1 billion in repurchases.
Nine-month net income attributable to ExxonMobil was $34.121 billion versus $22.343 billion; cash flow from operating activities was $57.910 billion versus $39.291 billion. The company declared a fourth-quarter dividend of $1.07 per share, payable December 10, 2026, to holders of record November 16, 2026, and announced $20 billion of 2027 repurchases, assuming reasonable market conditions. Net debt reduction was nearly $11 billion year to date, with net debt of $22.1 billion as of September 30, 2026. ExxonMobil assumed operatorship at Papua LNG and agreed to increase its working interests in LNG projects at Papua to 34% and Rovuma, Mozambique, to 50%, where it already operates. Sequentially, Upstream and Chemical Products earnings declined, while Energy Products and Specialty Products earnings increased.
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It reads the document as published, with the same rules for every company, and it does not look at what the market expected or at how the stock traded, so a point can be objectively good on a day the stock falls.
Rhea-AI Sentiment measures something else, the tone of the wording.
Positive
- Moderate pointThird-quarter net income increased to $15.413 billion from $7.548 billion a year earlier.
- Moderate pointRevenue and other income increased to $113.164 billion from $85.294 billion.
- Moderate pointNine-month operating cash flow reached $57.910 billion, versus $39.291 billion a year earlier.
Negative
- Moderate pointThird-quarter Upstream GAAP earnings declined to $7.088 billion from $7.927 billion sequentially.
Filing Explained
The preliminary balance sheet ties its equity changes mainly to the redomicile: treasury shares fell from 3.840 billion at year-end to 33 million at September 30 after cancellation as of July 1; the filing says the cancellation did not affect total equity.
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Earnings Snapshot
$20 billion of 2027 share repurchases, assuming reasonable market conditions.
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