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Financial performance
At year-end 2010, Occidental was the fourth-largest U.S. oil and gas company measured by market capitalization, with a market capitalization of $79.7 billion at that date. This represented a fifteenfold increase in the company's market capitalization since the end of 1990, when it was approximately $5.4 billion. At year-end 2010, Occidental was ranked No. 33 on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Shares of Occidental rose by nearly 21 percent in 2010, compared with a 12 percent increase in the Chicago Board Options Exchange index of oil companies.