Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $137.54, with 3.06 million shares of worth about $420.93 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -12.34% during that period and on April 24, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.41%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 316.00M shares, out of which, 310.68M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 10.86% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -7.75%. Year-to-date (YTD), MPC shares are showing a performance of -1.41% which decreased to -30.62% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $115.10 but also hit the highest price of $201.36 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Marathon Petroleum Corp shares is 2.99 million. The stock is currently trading 4.72% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.28% for SMA50 and it goes to -10.67% lower than SMA200.
Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) currently have 316.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 75.07% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $42.85B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.86. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 13.84, while it has posted earnings per share of $9.94 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.12 and has Quick Ratio of 0.71 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.62. 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 2.98% while standing at 5.32% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -26.40% while it is estimated to increase by 66.32% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 12.38% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 20.52% 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.
