Is Exxon Mobil Corp (NYSE: XOM) A Good Investment Now?

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Exxon Mobil Corp (NYSE:XOM) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 0.27% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $107.64.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $107.35, falling within a range of $106.52 and $107.86. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.88 whereas the PE ratio is 13.72 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $126.34, and the low was $100.42. On the whole, XOM has fluctuated by -1.89% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Exxon Mobil Corp currently standing at about $473.11 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 4.83, with its dividend yield at 4.49%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 341.01B, with a low estimate of 78.23B and a high estimate of 108.51B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 85.93B.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that XOM’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.40, with the price of XOM currently trading nearly -1.63% and -1.71% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 45.02, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.91% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.91%. Furthermore, Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM)’s beta value is 0.81, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.23.

A comparison of Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. XOM showed an intraday change of 0.27% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 4.34%%.

Data on historical trading for Exxon Mobil Corp (NYSE:XOM) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 14.41 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 15.52 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 4.40 billion shares outstanding.

Nearly 0.34% of Exxon Mobil Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 65.20% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 39.09 million shares as on 2025-01-15, resulting in a short ratio of 2.47. According to the data, the short interest in Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM) stood at 89.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-15; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-13 reached 45.25 million. The stock has risen by 0.07% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the XOM stock heading into the next quarter.

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