Marathon Oil - MRO Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Marathon Oil in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings, 10 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" MRO shares.
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18 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Marathon Oil's shares. Their MRO share price forecasts range from $25.00 to $48.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $33.88 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 23.3% from the stock's current price.
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Marathon Oil's stock was trading at $27.07 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, MRO stock has increased by 1.5% and is now trading at $27.47.
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Marathon Oil saw a drop in short interest during the month of December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totaling 22,740,000 shares, a drop of 12.6% from the November 30th total of 26,020,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 12,380,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.8 days. Currently, 3.6% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 15th 2023.
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Marathon Oil will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 16th at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Marathon Oil Co. (NYSE:MRO) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 3rd. The oil and gas producer reported $0.39 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.31 by $0.08. The oil and gas producer earned $1.45 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.32 billion. Marathon Oil had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 27.76% and a net margin of 46.11%. During the same period last year, the firm earned ($0.28) earnings per share.
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Marathon Oil announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 25th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, February 15th will be given a dividend of $0.10 per share on Friday, March 10th. This represents a $0.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 14th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.09.
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Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.27%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 6.91%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MRO will have a dividend payout ratio of 9.65% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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132 employees have rated Marathon Oil Chief Executive Officer Lee Tillman on Glassdoor.com. Lee Tillman has an approval rating of 56% among the company's employees. This puts Lee Tillman in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Marathon Oil investors own include Bank of America (BAC), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Intel (INTC), NVIDIA (NVDA), Ford Motor (F), General Electric (GE), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), AT&T (T), Micron Technology (MU) and Chevron (CVX).

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

Marathon Oil's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.53%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.30%), National Bank of Canada FI (0.27%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.27%), Strs Ohio (0.20%) and Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.16%). Insiders that own company stock include Dane E Whitehead, Gary Eugene Wilson, Lee M Tillman, Lee M Tillman, Michael A Henderson, Patrick Wagner and Rob L White.
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One share of MRO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.47.

Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) has a market capitalization of $17.39 billion and generates $5.47 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas producer earns $946 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.21 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 1,531 workers across the globe.

Marathon Oil's mailing address is 5555 SAN FELIPE STREET, HOUSTON TX, 77056. The official website for the company is www.marathonoil.com. The oil and gas producer can be reached via phone at (713) 629-6600, via email at investorrelations@marathonoil.com, or via fax at 713-296-2952.