It's Time For a Quick Look at Marathon Petroleum's Fundamentals.

By Blake Campbell • Wednesday, October 25 15:24 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Marathon Petroleum over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Oil & Gas Integrated stock at a price of $147.83? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Marathon Petroleum has moved 32.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 10.0%
MPC has an average analyst rating of buy and is -7.77% away from its mean target price of $160.29 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $27.27
Marathon Petroleum has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 5.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $16.67 and its forward P/E ratio is 8.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.33 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Marathon Petroleum is part of the Energy sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 7.54 and an average P/B of 1.68
MPC has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -51.4% and gross profit margins of 0.2%
The company has a free cash flow of $9.28 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Marathon Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated downstream energy company primarily in the United States. It operates in two segments, Refining & Marketing, and Midstream. The Refining & Marketing segment refines crude oil and other feedstocks at its refineries in the Gulf Coast, Mid-Continent, and West Coast regions of the United States; and purchases refined products and ethanol for resale and distributes refined products, including renewable diesel, through transportation, storage, distribution, and marketing services. Its refined products include transportation fuels, such as reformulated gasolines and blend-grade gasolines; heavy fuel oil; and asphalt. This segment also manufactures propane, petrochemicals, and natural gas liquids. It sells refined products to wholesale marketing customers in the United States and internationally, buyers on the spot market, and independent entrepreneurs who operate primarily Marathon branded outlets, as well as through long-term fuel supply contracts to direct dealer locations primarily under the ARCO brand. The Midstream segment transports, stores, distributes, and markets crude oil and refined products through refining logistics assets, pipelines, terminals, towboats, and barges; gathers, processes, and transports natural gas; and gathers, transports, fractionates, stores, and markets natural gas liquids. The company was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Findlay, Ohio.

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