Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) shares, rose in value on Thursday, 08/12/21, with the stock price down by 0.00% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $12.40.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $12.40, falling within a range of $12.13 and $12.4484. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 3.29. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $14.33, and the low was $3.73. On the whole, MRO has fluctuated by -0.96% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Marathon Oil Corporation currently standing at about $9.63 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for Nov 03, 2021. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.16, with its dividend yield at 1.29%. As a result, investors might want to see an improvement in the stock’s price before the company announces its earnings report. Analysts are projecting the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.15, which is expected to increase to $0.39 for fiscal year $0.75 and then to about $0.75 by fiscal year 2022.
Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at $1.09 billion, with a low estimate of $1 billion and a high estimate of $1.2 billion. According to the average forecast, sales growth in current quarter could jump up 300.20%, compared to the corresponding quarter of last year. Wall Street analysts also predicted that in 2022, the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach $4.49 billion, representing an increase of 45.40% from the revenues reported in the last year’s results.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were 1 upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that MRO’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
30 analyst(s) have assigned their ratings of the stock’s forecast evaluation on a scale of 1.00-5.00 to indicate a strong buy to a strong sell recommendation. The stock is rated as a Hold by 14 analyst(s), 13 recommend it as a Buy and 2 called the MRO stock Overweight. In the meantime, 0 analyst(s) believe the stock as Underweight and 1 think it is a Sell. Thus, investors eager to increase their holdings of the company’s stock will have an opportunity to do so as the average rating for the stock is Overweight.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0, with the price of MRO currently trading nearly 5.93% and -2.76% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 53.86, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.23% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 4.15%. Furthermore, Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO)’s beta value is 3.29, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.54. The company’s stock has been forecasted to trade at an average price of $16.04 over the course of the next 52 weeks, with a low of $7.00 and a high of $20.00. Based on these price targets, the low is 43.55% off current price, whereas the price has to move -61.29% to reach the yearly target high. Additionally, analysts’ median price of $16.00 is likely to be welcomed by investors because it represents a decrease of -29.03% from the current levels.
A comparison of Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. MRO showed an intraday change of 0.00% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 107.36%%. In comparison, Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) has moved lower at -1.71% on the day and was up 30.07% over the past 12 months. On the other hand, the price of Chevron Corporation (CVX) has fallen -0.20% on the day. The stock, however, is off 13.14% from where it was a year ago. Other than that, the overall performance of the S&P 500 during the last trading session shows that it gained 0.30%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Improved by 0.04%.
Data on historical trading for Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) indicates that the trading volume over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 17.74 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 789.00 million shares outstanding.
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Nearly 0.30% of Marathon Oil Corporation’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 75.00% of the company’s shares. The stock has risen by 85.91% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the MRO stock heading into the next quarter.
