On Tuesday, Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) was 0.41% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $156.50. A 52-week range for MPC has been $140.98 – $221.11.
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Annual sales at Energy sector company grew by 16.50% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -59.02%. With a float of $320.61 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $368.00 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 18200 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 8.05%, operating margin of 5.22%, and the pretax margin is 5.17%.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Marathon Petroleum Corp stocks. The insider ownership of Marathon Petroleum Corp is 0.24%, while institutional ownership is 74.73%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 01 ’24, was worth 170,350. In this transaction Director of this company sold 1,000 shares at a rate of $170.35, taking the stock ownership to the 23,446 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 26 ’24, when Company’s Ex VP, Refining sold 7,955 for $172.88, making the entire transaction worth $1,375,284. This insider now owns 9,801 shares in total.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 9/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 3.98 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 2.22) by 1.76. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.3 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -59.02% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will plunge by -10.00% during the next five years compared to 34.95% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.76. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.36. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 9.48.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 12.63, a number that is poised to hit 1.07 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.74 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC)
Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) saw its 5-day average volume 2.07 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 2.63 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 37.65%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.64.
During the past 100 days, Marathon Petroleum Corp’s (MPC) raw stochastic average was set at 35.34%, which indicates a significant decrease from 56.73% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 16.26% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 30.99% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $158.55, while its 200-day Moving Average is $173.95. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $158.11 in the near term. At $159.09, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $160.23. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $156.00, it is likely to go to the next support level at $154.86. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $153.88.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) Key Stats
There are 321,389K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 50.50 billion. As of now, sales total 148,379 M while income totals 9,681 M. Its latest quarter income was 35,107 M while its last quarter net income were 622,000 K.
