GetCoattail Research — The Filing Tape #165. ConocoPhillips has recently been on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks, where it carries a Rank #1 (Strong Buy). The filings show 11 tracked holders of 147 cutting a verified 8.4%, a full market holding 10.76% more shares on 81 fewer filers, and an insider record with two purchases against fifteen sales.
The Hype
The attention is search traffic with the strongest buy label attached. Zacks reports that ConocoPhillips "has recently been on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks," with shares up 13.7% over the past month against no change in the Zacks S&P 500 composite, while its Oil and Gas - Integrated - United States industry gained 8%. Zacks, October 22, 2026 The same note shows the revisions behind the label: the current-quarter consensus is $2.86 a share, up 77.6% year over year and revised up 17.9% in 30 days; the full-year estimate is $11.19, up 81.7%; the next-year estimate is $10.69, down 4.5%; and Zacks assigns Rank #1 (Strong Buy) with a Value Style Score of B. The last reported quarter printed revenue of $19.52 billion, up 32.4%, and EPS of $3.24 against $1.42 a year earlier — beating consensus by 11.32% and 9.46%. Our own price file, which ends October 2, shows the longer arc: the stock fell 21.2% in Q2 ($132.00 on March 31 to $103.96 on June 30), then rose 21.9% to $126.75 at October 2 — 10.2% below the 252-day high close of $141.22 (September 15, 2026) and 48.0% above the low close of $85.66 (November 6, 2025).
The Tape
For ConocoPhillips, the one hundred and sixty-fifth Filing Tape audit, the tape shows 11 tracked managers whose verified continuing positions fell 8.4%, a full market that added 98,611,454 shares across 81 fewer filers, an insider record with two purchases against fifteen sales, no congressional row in either chamber, a 5% register that is entirely passive SC 13G paper, and a borrow of 1.34% of a measured share count that has eased since June.
| Lens | As of | What the filings show | Direction vs prior period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superinvestors (13F) | Jun 30, 2026 | 11 holders of 147 tracked managers hold 45,658,257 shares; no NEW labels | Verified continuing holders −8.4% (49,833,973 → 45,658,257 shares); register total −8.4% |
| All institutions (13F) | Jun 30, 2026 | 2,467 filers; 1,015,147,073 shares; reported value $100,869,311,771 | Filers −81; shares +10.76%; reported value −12.40% |
| Insiders (Form 4) | Oct 2, 2026 | Last 90 days (by filing date): 0 purchases, 2 sales; parsed record: 2 purchases, 15 sales | No purchase in the last 90 days; every sale on record sits inside the last year |
| Congress | Oct 3, 2026 | No row in the combined, House or Senate aggregates | No member-file row in either chamber |
| 13D/G | Apr 29, 2026 | 3 parsed filings, all in the SC 13G family; register maximum 7.52% as printed | Latest filing, Apr 29, 2026, prints Vanguard Capital Management at 7.52% as of Mar 31, 2026 |
| Short interest (FINRA) | Sep 15, 2026 | 16,065,330 shares; 2.77 days to cover; 1.34% of the measured share count | Up 11.9% from a year ago; down 16.2% from the Jun 30, 2026 settlement |
Lens 1 — the superinvestors: eleven holders, two of them 71.5% of the stake. The collection holds 147 managers (144 at June 30; 3 early filers at September 30). The June 30, 2026 register is 11 distinct managers holding 45,658,257 shares worth $4,746,629,158, long only, with no option rows. The largest is Eagle Capital Management, 17,477,615 shares, 38.3% of the cohort, at a 5.55% weight, labelled DECREASED at −7.6%. Behind it sit Bill Nygren - Oakmark Funds (15,178,673 shares, 33.2%, DECREASED −12.9%), Dodge & Cox Funds (9,266,284 shares, DECREASED −3.9%), Christopher Davis - Davis Advisors (1,877,583 shares, INCREASED +0.1%) and Yacktman Asset Management (1,606,025 shares, INCREASED +1.5%), with six smaller holders below 131,000 shares each — seven decreases, four increases, no new position. Every label verifies under both pairing methods: the eleven held 49,833,973 shares at March 31 and 45,658,257 at June 30, a verified change of −8.4% (−4,175,716 shares), in a quarter when the price fell 21.2%. One tracked manager exited: Steven Check - Check Capital Management, which had held 2,534 shares. No September early filer holds the name. The June cohort's implied price is $103.96, exactly the June 30 close. At 4.50% of reported institutional shares the cohort is a small sample of this register. 13F figures are as of June 30, 2026, published up to 45 days later.
Lens 2 — institutions: 81 fewer filers, 98.6 million more shares. At June 30, 2026, 2,467 institutions reported positions on the name's single CUSIP, down 81 from 2,548 at March 31 (−3.18%); 2,462 are long. Reported shares rose 10.76% to 1,015,147,073 (+98,611,454 shares), while reported value fell 12.40% to $100,869,311,771, labelled "reported" because the aggregate includes option rows (methodology). The aggregate implies $99.36 against the $103.96 close (−4.42%). The share count is the cleaner measure: a tenth more stock reported by a smaller crowd, in the same quarter the tracked cohort cut 8.4% and the price fell 21.2%. The value fell because the quarter-end price fell further than the share count rose.
Lens 3 — insiders: two purchases on the whole record, and the CEO is the largest seller. The parsed Form 4 record holds 119 filings (January 2, 2025 – September 16, 2026), inside windows running through October 2, 2026. The last 90 days (a filing-date window, per the aggregate's own definition) hold 6 filings, no purchase-coded rows and two sale-coded rows totalling 24,487 shares and $3,299,893.05: Kelly Brunetti Rose, senior vice president and general counsel, sold 15,000 shares, and Andrew D. Lundquist, a senior vice president, sold 9,487 shares — both officer rows, transacted August 20–21, 2026 and filed August 21–24, 2026. The last year holds 1 purchase-coded row and 15 sale-coded rows: the purchase is William H. McRaven, a reporting person who is not an officer in the filing, buying 5,768.35 shares for $500,000.09 on November 10, 2025, and the sales total 1,284,549 shares worth $145,849,371.51 across eight sellers, 13 of the 15 rows officer rows. The largest seller is Ryan Michael Lance, chairman and CEO, with three sales totalling 1,120,729 shares — 500,708 shares on December 19, 2025, 506,800 on March 20, 2026 and 113,221 on March 31, 2026. The full parsed record holds exactly one more purchase — Kirk L. Johnson, an executive vice president, buying 5,300 shares on June 16, 2025 — and no sale outside the last year: 2 purchases and 15 sales in all, stated with that record's span.
Lens 4 — Congress: no row. The combined aggregate (as of October 3, 2026) carries no row for this ticker, and neither do the House aggregate, the Senate aggregate, the House member file or the Senate member file. There is nothing to split by party, chamber or direction: as collected, this lens is blank, reported as blank rather than estimated.
Lens 5 — the 5% register: entirely passive, three prints. Our full parse holds 3 SC 13D/G filings: 1 SC 13G and 2 SC 13G/A amendments, and no SC 13D at all, carrying 3 reporter rows from 3 reporting entities. The register maximum as printed is Vanguard Capital Management, 91,896,696 shares and 7.52%, in an SC 13G filed April 29, 2026 as of March 31, 2026 — a share count that is 7.65% of the 1,201,337,479 shares in our fundamentals file, so the percentage and the count sit in the same range on this name. BlackRock, Inc. prints 85,107,015 shares and 6.7% as of June 30, 2025. The Vanguard Group prints 0 shares and 0.0% as of March 13, 2026, while Vanguard Capital Management prints again at March 31, 2026. The latest filing is the April 29, 2026 Vanguard Capital Management print above.
Lens 6 — short interest: 1.34% of a measured share count, easing since June. The latest FINRA settlement, September 15, 2026, records 16,065,330 shares sold short at 2.77 days to cover, 1.34% of the share count in our fundamentals file (a measured period-end count, methodology). The borrow fell 4.17% from the prior settlement, sits 16.2% below the June 30, 2026 settlement (19,181,879 shares) and 11.9% above the year-ago settlement (14,362,910 shares). The series maximum is 49,882,293 shares at January 15, 2021 — the first settlement in the series, followed immediately by a step to 0.344x at the next settlement — and the latest reading sits 67.8% below it; within the last year the maximum is 27,894,997 shares at May 15, 2026, and the latest sits 42.4% below that. The series minimum is 8,722,918 shares at June 30, 2023. The summer's path: 19,181,879 (June 30), 20,698,828 (July 15), 18,512,066 (July 31), 16,864,931 (August 14), 16,764,745 (August 31), 16,065,330 (September 15) — one rise after the June snapshot, then four settlements down.
The Gap
The search story is a Strong Buy label on a rising tape: Rank #1, the current-quarter estimate revised up 17.9% in a month, and a stock up 13.7% over the same month. The filings underneath describe the quarter before that rise, and they point the other way at the top of the register. In Q2, when the price fell 21.2%, the tracked cohort cut a verified 8.4% — seven of eleven holders decreased, led by Oakmark's −12.9% and Eagle's −7.6% — while the full market reported 10.76% more shares on 81 fewer filers, a consolidation the tracked names did not join. Since June the price has recovered 21.9%, and the borrow has eased 16.2% from its June 30 settlement. Congress has not touched the name in any aggregate we hold. The 5% register is passive paper only, its largest print dated March 2026. And the insider record leans one way at scale: two purchases totalling $999,472.09 against fifteen sales totalling $145,849,371.51, with the chairman and CEO alone selling 1,120,729 shares. One plausible reading is that the October search interest is an estimates argument about a name after a round trip — down 21.2%, then up 21.9% — while the record shows the broad market adding shares during the fall, tracked holders trimming into it, insiders selling at a scale the two purchases do not approach, and nobody in the filings chasing the recovery yet.
What Would Change the Picture
Nothing above is a recommendation. These filings would change it:
- 1. The 2026Q3 13F season (filing window closing mid-November 2026). The baseline is 11 June holders with 45,658,257 shares, the continuing holders verified at −8.4%, Eagle at 38.3% of the cohort, one tracked exit, and no September early filer holding the name. Whether Eagle and Oakmark add after trimming in a −21.2% quarter, whether Check Capital's exit is joined by others, and whether any new tracked name enters after the 21.9% recovery would change this lens.
- 2. A further insider purchase — or a further sale at the CEO's scale. The parsed record through the October 2 window end holds 2 purchases and 15 sales. A third purchase-coded row would still leave this column small; a sale materially larger than the recent 24,487-share pair, or another sale near the CEO's 506,800-share March lot, would extend the record's dominant direction.
- 3. A first congressional trade. The combined, House and Senate aggregates and both member files hold no row for this ticker. Any recorded purchase or sale, in any amount band, would populate this blank lens.
- 4. A first SC 13D, or a fresh passive print above 7.52%. The register holds no SC 13D and its maximum print is dated March 31, 2026. An original SC 13D from any reporter, or a new SC 13G print above the Vanguard Capital Management maximum, would change this lens.
- 5. Short interest above 27,894,997 shares, or below 14,362,910. Above the May 15, 2026 reading would set a new high for the last year; below the year-ago settlement would unwind the year-over-year build.
Methodology and data notes
- As-of & limits: The lenses rest on different clocks, none live: 13F is a June 30, 2026 snapshot published up to 45 days later; Form 4 windows run through October 2, 2026 (the last ConocoPhillips filing in the parsed record is itself dated September 16, 2026); Congress aggregates run through October 3, 2026 (Senate through October 1, 2026); 13D/G through April 29, 2026; short interest through September 15, 2026; the price file ends October 2, 2026. Ten limits are specific to this audit. First, the roster expanded before the recent audits — from 85 managers (83 filing) to 149 (147 filing) — so "of 147" counts are not comparable to earlier pieces' "of 83" figures. Second, this name's common stock carries a single CUSIP (20825C104, which the full-market aggregate also records in a lowercase spelling), and the full-market by-CUSIP row matches the by-ticker aggregate on every field — holders, long holders, shares, reported value, prior holders and prior reported value — so no CUSIP blending question arises. Third, the tracked register's change labels are verified, not taken on trust: all eleven continuing holders were verified by two methods that agree exactly — a total-value prefix pass and accession identity plus CUSIP-overlap pairing, each June filing paired to a unique March filing, with every label recomputing exactly and no fallback lookup needed. There is no NEW label to audit and no September early filer holding this name; one tracked exit (Check Capital Management, 2,534 shares at March 31) is recorded. The registers then reconcile with no remainder: the March 31 register holds 49,836,507 shares, equal to the verified continuing holders' 49,833,973 plus the exited holder's 2,534; the June 30 register holds 45,658,257 shares, equal to the June cohort's 45,658,257, so the register change and the verified cohort change are the same −8.4% at one decimal. Fourth, implied prices are exact on the tracked side: the June cohort implies $103.96 against the June 30 close of $103.96 (0.00%). Fifth, the full-market aggregate implies $99.36 against the June 30 close of $103.96 (−4.42%): the aggregate is a reported sum that includes option rows, so its implied price need not equal the close; the gap here is not small, and this audit uses filer counts and share counts as this lens's primary measures and reports the value as reported only. Sixth, the insider lens rests on a single aggregate bucket — this issuer's filings sit under one symbol spelling, "COP", with no case split — cross-checked against a row-level scan of all 119 parsed filings for the issuer (CIK 1163165): filing counts, transaction counts, share counts, officer-row counts and values reproduce exactly in every window, with a value difference of $0.00 in all three windows and no accession appearing under more than one symbol spelling. On that record, every insider implied-price check that applies passes: the 90-day implied sale price of $134.76, the one-year implied sale price of $113.54 and the full-record implied sale price of $113.54 each sit inside their filing-window close ranges, as do the one-year implied purchase price of $86.68 and the full-record implied purchase price of $90.30; the 90-day window holds no purchase rows, so no implied-price check applies on the buy side there. The site's insider aggregate (dated October 22, 2026, a 90-day window ending that day) carries a row for this name — 0 purchases, 2 sales, $3,299,893.05, no last purchase, not flagged as a CEO buy — which matches the full parse's 90-day filing-date window (ending October 2, 2026) exactly; this audit uses the full parse, whose window is defined in the aggregate file itself. Form 4 windows in this audit are filing-date windows; the recent sales were transacted August 20–21, 2026 and filed August 21–24, 2026, and the one-year purchase was transacted and filed on November 10, 2025. Seventh, the congressional lens is an absence across five files: the combined aggregate, the House aggregate, the Senate aggregate, the House member file (transactions dated on or after April 1, 2026) and the Senate member file (same window) each carry no row for this ticker. That is an absence in the aggregates as collected, stated with their windows, not a claim about any individual member's complete disclosure history. Eighth, the 5% register's maximum print needs its date in full: the Vanguard Capital Management SC 13G (filed April 29, 2026) prints 91,896,696 shares at 7.52% as of March 31, 2026, and that share count is 7.65% of the 1,201,337,479 shares in our fundamentals file, so on this name the printed percentage and the share count are in the same range and no mismatch flag applies. The register's cross-date share total of 177,003,711 is likewise an arithmetic sum of 3 reporter rows across different reporters and as-of dates, including one reporter's own 0-share print, and is not a current combined stake; each print is reported individually in the text. Parsed totals match the aggregates exactly, the register holds no SC 13D filing, and every filing is in the SC 13G family. Ninth, the short-interest series holds one step to one-half or less (0.344x, at January 29, 2021, immediately after the series' first settlement) and no step of 2x or more (the largest step is 1.34x, at May 31, 2024), so the series carries one early discontinuity on this measure and none since. No row carries a split flag; five rows carry a FINRA revision flag (June 15, 2021, May 31, 2023, July 31, 2023, August 31, 2023 and September 13, 2024). The issuer-name field reads "ConocoPhillips" at all 137 settlements, on a single market class (NYSE) throughout. The share count behind the short-interest percentage is 1,201,337,479 shares in our fundamentals file, and unlike a weighted-average fallback it is a measured count (the file's shares_source reads dei/EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding and its shares_end reads "2026-06-30"), so the 1.34% figure rests on that measured denominator. Our price file records no single-day close move across the thresholds this audit normally treats as split patterns, and records no split factor for this name. The company's fundamentals as collected print fiscal 2025 revenue of $58,944,000,000, net income of $7,988,000,000 and assets of $121,939,000,000; those figures are reported as collected and are not used in any lens above. Every price statement from our own file is mechanical, a date and a close. The Zacks figures in The Hype — the search ranking, the past-month return and the consensus estimates — are that outlet's published figures, cited as such, not blended into file-based calculations.
- Market context sources: Zacks, October 22, 2026 (ConocoPhillips recently on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks; past-month return +13.7% against no change in the Zacks S&P 500 composite; Oil and Gas - Integrated - United States industry +8%; current-quarter consensus EPS $2.86, up 77.6% year over year, revised +17.9% over 30 days; fiscal-year consensus $11.19, up 81.7%, revised +6.1%; next fiscal year $10.69, down 4.5%, revised +14.0%; current-quarter sales consensus $18.07 billion, up 16.5%; fiscal-year sales $71.35 billion, up 15.9%, and next fiscal year $70.23 billion, down 1.6%; Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy); Value Style Score B; last reported quarter revenue $19.52 billion, up 32.4%, EPS $3.24 against $1.42 a year earlier, revenue surprise +11.32% and EPS surprise +9.46%, EPS beats in three of the trailing four quarters and revenue beats in four). Google Trends US daily snapshot via Cyber Kendra, updated October 22, 2026 (top queries are sports and entertainment names; no stock query appears, so the Zacks trending-stock selection above is the fallback basis). Figures we could not confirm were left out; the external items above are reported figures from those outlets, not GetCoattail measurements.
- ConocoPhillips is in the GetCoattail stock-page universe: ConocoPhillips (COP) stock page. Series data: cop_lens_data.csv · cop_short_interest_series.csv. Earlier audits: Owens Corning · Tyson Foods.
Past patterns are not a promise of future results. For education only — not investment advice.
This article describes public filings as of the dates stated. It is not investment advice and makes no recommendation. Filings lag reality: 13F positions are as of June 30, 2026, and later trading is not yet public.
Revision history: v1.0 — October 23, 2026: first publication.