−Removed: MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON
−Removed: EQUITY, RELATED
+Added: Market for Registrant's
+Added: Common Equity, Related
Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
−Removed: ConocoPhillips’ common stock is traded on the
−Removed: New York Stock Exchange, under the symbol “COP.”
+Added: ConocoPhillips’ common stock is traded
+Added: on the New York Stock
+Added: Exchange, under the symbol “COP.”
Cash Dividends Per Share
−Removed: Number of Stockholders of Record at January
−Removed: *In determining the number of stockholders, we consider clearing
−Removed: agencies and security position listings as one stockholder for each
−Removed: The declaration of dividends is subject to the discretion
−Removed: of our Board of Directors, and may be affected by
−Removed: various factors, including our future earnings,
−Removed: financial condition, capital requirements,
−Removed: levels of indebtedness,
−Removed: credit ratings and other considerations our Board of
−Removed: Directors deems relevant.
−Removed: Our Board of Directors has
−Removed: adopted a quarterly dividend declaration policy providing
−Removed: that the declaration of any dividends will be
−Removed: determined quarterly by the Board of Directors
−Removed: taking into account such factors as our
−Removed: business model,
−Removed: prevailing business conditions and our financial
−Removed: results and capital requirements, without a predetermined
−Removed: annual net income payout ratio.
+Added: Number of Stockholders of Record
+Added: at January 31, 2022*
+Added: *In determining the number of stockholders, we consider clearing agencies and security position
+Added: listings as one stockholder for each agency
+Added: In December 2021, we announced the addition of a VROC tier to our return
+Added: of capital program.
+Added: The declaration of
+Added: ordinary and VROC dividends are subject to
+Added: the discretion and approval of our Board
+Added: of Directors.
+Added: The Board has
+Added: adopted a dividend declaration policy
+Added: providing that the declaration of any
+Added: dividends will be determined quarterly.
+Added: For more information on factors
+Added: considered when determining the level of these
+Added: distributions
+Added: see “Item 1A—Risk
+Added: Factors – Our ability to execute our capital return program is subject to certain considerations.”
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
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Shares Purchased
+Added: Value of Shares
as Part of Publicly
−Removed: that May Yet Be
−Removed: Total Number of
Announced Plans
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December 1-31, 2021
−Removed: *There were no repurchases of common stock from company employees in connection with the company's broad-based employee incentive plans.
−Removed: In late 2016, we initiated our current share repurchase
−Removed: program, which has a current total program
−Removed: authorization of $25 billion of our common stock.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2020,
−Removed: we had repurchased $10.5
−Removed: billion of shares.
−Removed: are made at management’s discretion, at prevailing prices, subject to market
−Removed: conditions and other factors.
−Removed: Except as limited by applicable legal requirements,
−Removed: repurchases may be
−Removed: increased, decreased or discontinued at any time
−Removed: without prior notice.
−Removed: Shares of stock repurchased under the
−Removed: plan are held as treasury shares.
−Removed: See “Item 1A—Risk Factors – Our ability
−Removed: to declare and pay dividends and
−Removed: repurchase shares is subject to certain considerations.”
+Added: * There were no repurchases of common stock from company employees in connection with the company's broad-based employee incentive
+Added: In late 2016, we initiated our current
+Added: share repurchase program,
+Added: which has a current total program
+Added: authorization
+Added: of $25 billion of our common stock.
+Added: As of December 31, 2021, we had repurchased $14.1 billion
+Added: Repurchases are made at management’s
+Added: discretion, at prevailing
+Added: prices, subject to market conditions
+Added: Except as limited by applicable legal
+Added: requirements, repurchases
+Added: may be increased, decreased or
+Added: discontinued at any time without prior notice.
+Added: Shares of stock repurchased under
+Added: the plan are held as treasury
+Added: For more information
+Added: see “Item 1A—Risk Factors – Our ability to execute our capital return program is
+Added: subject to certain considerations.”
+Added: ConocoPhillips
Stock Performance Graph
−Removed: The following graph shows the cumulative TSR
−Removed: for ConocoPhillips’ common stock in each of the five
−Removed: from December 31, 2015 to December 31,
+Added: The following graph shows the cumulative
+Added: TSR for ConocoPhillips’ common stock
+Added: in each of the five years from
+Added: December 31, 2016 to December 31, 2021.
The graph also compares the cumulative
total returns for the
−Removed: same five-year period with the S&P 500 Index and
−Removed: our performance peer group consisting
−Removed: ExxonMobil, Apache, Marathon Oil Corporation,
+Added: five-year period with the S&P 500 Index and our
+Added: performance peer group consisting
+Added: of Chevron, ExxonMobil,
+Added: Apache, Marathon Oil Corporation,
Devon, Occidental, Hess, and EOG weighted
−Removed: the respective peer’s stock market capitalization at the
−Removed: beginning of each annual period.
−Removed: For the 2019 Stock
−Removed: Performance Graph, Noble Energy was also presented
−Removed: within the peer group.
−Removed: However, due to Chevron’s
−Removed: acquisition of Noble Energy completed in 2020, Noble
−Removed: Energy’s performance has been excluded from all five
−Removed: years of the peer group performance.
−Removed: The comparison assumes $100 was invested on
−Removed: December 31, 2015, in ConocoPhillips stock, the S&P
−Removed: Index and ConocoPhillips’ peer group and assumes
−Removed: that all dividends were reinvested.
−Removed: The cumulative total
−Removed: returns of the peer group companies' common
−Removed: stock do not include the cumulative total
−Removed: ConocoPhillips’ common stock.
−Removed: The stock price performance included in this
−Removed: graph is not necessarily
−Removed: indicative of future stock price performance.
+Added: according to the respective peer’s
+Added: stock market capitalization
+Added: at the beginning of each annual period.
+Added: The comparison assumes $100 was invested
+Added: on December 31, 2016, in ConocoPhillips stock, the S&P 500 Index
+Added: and ConocoPhillips’ peer group and assumes that
+Added: all dividends were reinvested.
+Added: The cumulative total returns
+Added: the peer group companies' common stock
+Added: do not include the cumulative total return
+Added: of ConocoPhillips’ common
+Added: The stock price performance included in this graph
+Added: is not necessarily indicative of future stock
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis
+Added: ConocoPhillips
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