Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO)’s traded shares stood at 21.49 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 2.42. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $21.20, to imply a decrease of -3.68% or -$0.81 in intraday trading. The MRO share’s 52-week high remains $33.42, putting it -57.64% down since that peak but still an impressive 8.4% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $19.42. The company has a valuation of $13.69B, with an average of 11.02 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 10.09 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of an Overweight for Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO), translating to a mean rating of 2.30. Of 30 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 2 analyst(s) give MRO a Sell rating. 2 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 8 advise Hold as 16 recommend it as a Buy. 2 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at $0.8.
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Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) trade information
After registering a -3.68% downside in the last session, Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) has traded red over the past five days. The stock hit a weekly high of 23.98 this Friday, 03/17/23, dropping -3.68% in its intraday price action. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -11.56%, and -18.68% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -21.68%. Short interest in Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) saw shorts transact 16.18 million shares and set a 1.78 days time to cover.
Analysts on Wall Street suggest a consensus price target of $34.22, implying an increase of 38.05% to the stock’s current value. The extremes give us $27.00 and $48.00 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, MRO has been trading -126.42% off suggested target high and -27.36% from its likely low.
Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) estimates and forecasts
Looking at statistics comparing Marathon Oil Corporation share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has underperformed competitors. Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) shares are -20.90% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate lower than industry average at -22.32% against -13.60%. Revenue is forecast to shrink -21.60% this quarter before falling -34.10% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -7.30% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 11 analysts is $1.79 billion. Meanwhile, for the quarter ending Jun 2023, a total of 11 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to $1.85 billion.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in $1.75 billion and $2.3 billion respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 1.80% before dropping -19.50% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 48.30% for the past 5-year period. While 2023 is set for a 338.00% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 23.93% annually.
MRO Dividends
Marathon Oil Corporation has its next earnings report out between May 02 and May 08. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Marathon Oil Corporation has a forward dividend ratio of 0.40, with the share yield ticking at 1.89% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 0.00%.
Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO)’s Major holders
Marathon Oil Corporation insiders hold 0.25% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 79.84% of the shares at 80.04% float percentage. In total, 79.84% institutions holds shares in the company, led by Vanguard Group, Inc. (The). As of Dec 30, 2022, the company held over 74.26 million shares (or 11.79% of shares), all amounting to roughly $1.57 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is Blackrock Inc. with 56.92 million shares, or about 9.04% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on Dec 30, 2022, these shares were worth $1.21 billion.
We also have Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Select Sector SPDR Fund-Energy Select as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) shares. Going by data provided on Sep 29, 2022, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 20.14 million shares. This is just over 3.18% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $426.99 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 18.37 million, or 2.90% of the shares, all valued at about 389.51 million.
