Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC): Today's Featured Energy Winner
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) pushed the Energy industry higher today making it today's featured energy winner. The industry as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, Marathon Petroleum rose $1.93 (2.8%) to $71.77 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2,697,271 shares of Marathon Petroleum exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3,305,400 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $69.93-$72.36 after having opened the day at $70.05 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $69.84. Other companies within the Energy industry that increased today were:
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), up 8.7%,
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), up 7.6%,
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), up 7.3% and
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), up 5.2%.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in refining, transporting, and marketing petroleum products primarily in the United States. It operates through Refining & Marketing, Speedway, and Pipeline Transportation segments. Marathon Petroleum has a market cap of $22.6 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. Shares are up 10.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate Marathon Petroleum a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Marathon Petroleum
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and compelling growth in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
- You can view the full Marathon Petroleum Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 8.5%,
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), down 8.0%,
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), down 7.1% and
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), down 6.7% , were all laggards within the energy industry with
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) being today's energy industry laggard.
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) while those bearish on the energy industry could consider
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