On August 18, PBF Energy Inc rose 5.02% in regular trading, reaching $75.42 per share with turnover of $88.22 million, significantly outperforming sector peers.

The rally comes amid escalating global refining margin tailwinds. Multiple Wall Street institutions have warned of a \"perfect storm\" in the diesel market, with U.S. diesel crack spreads recently surging past $97 per barrel, approaching the $100 mark — a historic high. The IEA's latest report indicates global refinery throughput remains nearly 5 million barrels per day below year-ago levels, while observable petroleum inventories have fallen below 7.9 billion barrels following a cumulative drawdown of 410 million barrels since the Hormuz Strait closure began. Atlantic Basin refining margins have hit all-time records.

PBF Energy's outperformance relative to peers is further supported by its blowout Q2 results, with adjusted EPS of $6.22 crushing the $4.11 consensus estimate by over 51%, and revenue of $11.68 billion exceeding the $9.82 billion forecast. UBS subsequently raised its price target on PBF to $84 from $62 while maintaining a Buy rating.

Within the Oil and Gas Refining and Marketing sector, Marathon Petroleum rose 2.02%, Phillips 66 rose 2.85%, Valero rose 2.4%, HF Sinclair rose 1.83%, and Delek US rose 2.31%.

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