Exxon Mobil's second 52-week high in a week, $183.21, clears the October 16 mark by 2.36% and extends a run that has added roughly $70 a share since late October 2025. A $753.3 billion megacap moving like this is doing real work for index holders.
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A $4.5 billion refining tailwind flagged ahead of Q3 results resets the bar for Exxon and the whole energy complex.
JUST IN: ExxonMobil says higher refining margins could add $4.5 billion to its third-quarter earnings https://t.co/UTZMZXEc7V
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- MRNAModerna$218.01+16.2%
- BOXBox$39.56+8.9%
- SUSuncor Energy$78.05+8.6%
- BPBP p.l.c.$50.21+6.9%
- SHELShell$106.66+6.5%
- DOCUDocuSign$74.65+6.0%
- PSXPhillips 66$293.17+5.6%
- PBRPetrobras$26+5.3%
- PBR-APetrobras$23.3+5.2%
- XOMExxon Mobil$178.98+5.1%
54 stocks printed fresh 52-week highs this week, and Big Oil showed up in force: Suncor, BP, Shell, Phillips 66, Petrobras and Exxon all cleared prior peaks. Moderna led the whole list, topping its old high by 16%.
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 10/15/26
- Diversification pitch: Korean memory selling in SK Hynix and Samsung is bleeding into US data center names
- Schwab called a buy near $94, under 15x this year's earnings, after AI displacement fears knocked it from $114
- Chevron preferred over Exxon on a swap; Home Depot held as the most rate-levered name he knows
- Trim half of Oracle after the run; Microsoft left alone into earnings on Azure strength
Cramer is pulling money toward consumer staples, retailers and oils while the data center complex cracks, and he is framing Schwab's selloff on AI-agent worries as a repeat of the 2023 banking scare that proved a buying opportunity. For anyone concentrated in AI hardware, the Oracle half-sell is the clearest sell discipline he offered all episode.
Exxon Mobil cleared its March 30 peak with a 52-week high at $172.15. The major has spent six months stuck below that line and just broke through.
Arm closed up 17.19% at $323, topping a session where four other priority names each added more than 12%. Declines stayed shallow: Novo Nordisk's 7.94% drop was the only one past 4%, with Exxon Mobil and Chevron down under 3%.
Closed up 38.1%, a move no other priority name came close to matching. Axon, Digital Turbine, Dell, Cava and SentinelOne all shed more than 6.5% in a single session.
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