This Oil Stock Has a Better 1-year Return Than Amazon, GoPro, Bank of America, and GE

A view of the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, La., on May 15, 2021. Kathleen Flynn/Reuters

As shares of clean energy manufacturing and EV companies soared in 2021, so did oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil Corp.

Since January 2021, Exxon Mobil stock’s one-year return has outperformed several of the world’s most popular consumer discretionary, tech, and financial services stocks: Amazon.com Inc., GoPro Inc., Bank of America Corp., and General Electric Company.