Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $146.28, with 2.72 million shares of worth about $398.34 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -14.21% during that period and on December 12, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -3.74%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 325.00M shares, out of which, 320.57M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -2.54% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -5.75%. Year-to-date (YTD), MPC shares are showing a performance of -1.40% which increased to 2.03% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $141.45 but also hit the highest price of $221.11 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Marathon Petroleum Corp shares is 2.57 million. The stock is currently trading -5.73% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.24% for SMA50 and it goes to -15.47% lower than SMA200.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) currently have 325.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 74.82% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $47.01B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.39. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 11.58, while it has posted earnings per share of $12.63 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.76 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.55. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for MPC, volatility over the week remained 2.65% while standing at 2.36% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -60.20% while it is estimated to decrease by -1.27% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of -10.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 34.95% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by TD Cowen on December 10, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $170 to it. Coverage by TD Cowen stated Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on November 06, 2024, suggesting a price target of $170 for the stock. Stock get a Buy rating from TD Cowen on August 07, 2024.
