NYSE:MRO - Marathon Oil Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Marathon Oil trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MRO."

Marathon Oil announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 25th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, August 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Monday, September 10th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.93%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 14th. View Marathon Oil's Dividend History.

Marathon Oil Co. (NYSE:MRO) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August, 1st. The oil and gas producer reported $0.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.21 by $0.06. The oil and gas producer earned $1.42 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.48 billion. Marathon Oil had a positive return on equity of 2.25% and a negative net margin of 3.03%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 33.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned ($0.24) EPS. View Marathon Oil's Earnings History.

Marathon Oil is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November, 7th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Marathon Oil.

20 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Marathon Oil's stock. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $28.00. On average, they expect Marathon Oil's share price to reach $21.4857 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Marathon Oil.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Marathon Oil in the last year. There are currently 9 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Marathon Oil.

Marathon Oil saw a decrease in short interest during the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totalling 12,050,772 shares, a decrease of 25.1% from the July 31st total of 16,081,138 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 10,706,215 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.1 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Marathon Oil's Current Options Chain.

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News headlines about MRO stock have trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Marathon Oil earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the oil and gas producer an impact score of 46.57 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View Recent Headlines for Marathon Oil.

Marathon Oil's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.02%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (4.20%), Boston Partners (2.37%), Millennium Management LLC (2.02%), Putnam Investments LLC (1.60%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.35%). Company insiders that own Marathon Oil stock include Lee M Tillman and Thomas Mitchell Little. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Marathon Oil.

MRO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Macquarie Group Ltd., FMR LLC, FMR LLC, Millennium Management LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, Schroder Investment Management Group, Federated Investors Inc. PA and OppenheimerFunds Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Marathon Oil company stock in the last year include Lee M Tillman and Thomas Mitchell Little. View Insider Buying and Selling for Marathon Oil.

MRO stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Partners, Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Hexavest Inc., Worldquant Millennium Quantitative Strategies LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Janus Henderson Group PLC and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for Marathon Oil.

Shares of MRO can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MRO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $21.45.

Marathon Oil has a market capitalization of $18.36 billion and generates $4.77 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas producer earns $-5,723,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.38) on an earnings per share basis. Marathon Oil employs 2,300 workers across the globe.

Marathon Oil's mailing address is 5555 SAN FELIPE STREET, HOUSTON TX, 77056. The oil and gas producer can be reached via phone at 713-629-6600 or via email at [email protected]