Marathon Petroleum Corporation

MPC · Energy

$456.00
-1.79% today

What a holder would want to know before buying MPC: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $162.63 · Dec 2025High $463.34 · Oct 2026

Today’s price is 180% above the lowest point of the past year and 2% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 99% of days and more expensive on 1%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on more than 99% of days.

69% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 4 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 81%; the longest took 3.5 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 2% below the Oct 2026 peak.

Apr 2024
−46%back in 23 months
Apr 2023
−23%back in 4 months
Jun 2022
−30%back in 5 months
Oct 2018
−81%back in 3.5 years
What you own

Marathon Petroleum Corporation · Energy · Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing · a large company worth $127.78B

Marathon Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated downstream energy company in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Refining & Marketing; Midstream; and…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $132.70B in 2025, with $4.05B of profit. Sales grew in 0 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 6 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$7.77B
Debt
$34.29B
Free cash flow / yr
$9.25B

Would need about 3.7 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $16 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $9 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 0.86% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Aug 19.

What others are doing

19 analysts: 9 say buy, 9 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $400.00 (range $236.00–$519.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 7 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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