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Kpler Refinery product - Earnings forecast model showcase

Exponential Technology & Kpler have produced a white paper demonstrating how Kpler's daily refinery throughput and production data can be converted into actionable, pre-announcement earnings forecasts for major refiners with strong trading signals.

Trade refiners with confidence before they report

This paper demonstrates a systematic methodology for forecasting public refinery company earnings using Kpler's daily operational refinery data combined with ensemble machine learning techniques developed by Exponential Technology. Applied to three major U.S. refiners—Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), and PBF Energy (PBF)—the framework achieves mean absolute percentage errors (MAPE) of 3.13%, 1.86%, and 3.15% for quarterly production forecasts, respectively, and 3.10%, 4.30%, and 5.80% for quarterly refining revenue forecasts.

Section 1

Data foundation and validation

Section 2

Production forecasting methodology

Section 3

Revenue forecasting framework

Section 4

Generalization across refining peers

Section 5

Forward validation – Q3 2025 earnings forecasts

Section 6

Trading strategy implementation

Key Takeaways

  • Low-error KPI forecasts across PSX, VLO, and PBF using daily refinery data and ensemble ML
  • Refining-revenue forecasts in low single-digit MAPE, powered by a unique “crack-ratio” method
  • Forward-validated trade example tied directly to pre-announcement model
  • Cumulative back test performance across multiple quarters and names

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