Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) saw an upside of 1.72% to close Monday at $26.61 after adding $0.45 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 10,940,360 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $27.36 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 10,620,130 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 10,707,698.
MRO’s 1-month performance is 4.27% or $0.99 on its low of $25.66 reached on 08/28/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $20.57 and high of $33.42, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 01/24/23. YTD, MRO has lost -1.70% or -$0.46 and has reached a new high 7 times. However, the current price is down -20.38% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
MRO stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Sep 15.TILLMAN LEE M (Chairman, President and CEO) most recently sold 159,722 shares at $27.36 per share on Sep 15. This transaction cost the insider $4,369,563. Executive VP, Operations, Henderson Michael A, sold 20,000 shares at a price of $26.91 on Sep 01. Then, on Aug 28, WAGNER PATRICK sold 34,756 shares at a price of $25.88 per share. This transaction amounted to $899,610.
Valuation Metrics
MRO stock has a beta of 2.35. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 2.42 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.43, with the price to cash flow ratio at 5.98.
Marathon Oil Corporation’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.74, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.80. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.51, while the total debt to equity was 0.53. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 46.58%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 70.50% while for the period ending June 29, Marathon Oil Corporation’s operating margin was 36.10%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $3.95 billion against revenue of $7.54 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -236.59% to $287.0 million, while revenue of $417.0 million was -45.3% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected MRO to announce $0.46 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.48, representing a 4.30% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $1.01 billion. MRO stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 8.68 billion, with total debt at $6.0 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $605.69 million.
Let’s look briefly at Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 25 September was 51.53% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 26.62%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $26.31, reflecting a -1.08% or -$0.29 change from its current price. MRO is currently trading +3.86% above its 20-day SMA, +17.02% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +10.51% and SMA200 by-3.06%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 25.31% and 17.50% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.74. The RSI (14) points at 52.10%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 46.39% with the period’s ATR at 0.73. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.37 and -0.47 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO), Goldman upgraded it to a Neutral rating. They previously had a Sell rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for MRO stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate MRO as a “sell,”, while 6 advise that investors “Hold.” 2 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 1 rates the stock as overweight while 18 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is MRO’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $26.00 and a high of $45.00, with their median price target at $33.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO) stock is $33.11.
