Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) kicked off on Friday, down -1.19% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $151.93. Over the past 52 weeks, MPC has traded in a range of $130.54-$221.11.
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A company in the Energy sector has jumped its sales by 12.18% annually for the last half of the decade. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -12.66%. With a float of $309.59 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $316.00 million.
In an organization with 18200 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 8.15%, operating margin of 4.58%, and the pretax margin is 4.28%.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC) Insider Updates
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing Industry. The insider ownership of Marathon Petroleum Corp is 0.26%, while institutional ownership is 75.99%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 04 ’24, was worth 897,644. In this transaction Director of this company bought 6,000 shares at a rate of $149.61, taking the stock ownership to the 6,090 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 01 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 1,000 for $170.35, making the entire transaction worth $170,350. This insider now owns 23,446 shares in total.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.27 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -12.66% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 18.24% during the next five years compared to 20.49% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Marathon Petroleum Corp’s (MPC) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.76. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.34. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 8.91.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 9.94, a number that is poised to hit 0.57 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 12.08 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 3.42 million. That was better than the volume of 2.91 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 64.02%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.88.
During the past 100 days, Marathon Petroleum Corp’s (MPC) raw stochastic average was set at 41.57%, which indicates a significant decrease from 44.14% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 41.83% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 31.80% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $147.01, while its 200-day Moving Average is $163.47. However, in the short run, Marathon Petroleum Corp’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $151.86. Second resistance stands at $153.60. The third major resistance level sits at $154.51. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $149.21, it is likely to go to the next support level at $148.29. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $146.55.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 47.44 billion has total of 321,389K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 148,379 M in contrast with the sum of 9,681 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 35,107 M and last quarter income was 622,000 K.
