MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION vs Exxon Mobil Corporation, two Oil & Gas Refining stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where MPC and XOM diverge most: on revenue growth, MPC reads -1.2% and XOM reads -4.2%; on ev/ebitda, MPC reads 7.6 and XOM reads 21.4. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's MPC price has a different growth bar priced in than XOM (+0.5% implied for MPC vs +0.6% for XOM); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What MPC's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | MPC | XOM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $316.34 | $136.40 |
| Market cap | $93.3B | $573.2B |
| Sector | Oil & Gas Refining | Oil & Gas Refining |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +0.5% | +0.6% |
| P/E | 20.8 | 23.0 |
| P/B | 3.98 | 2.20 |
| P/S | 0.69 | 1.71 |
| EV/EBITDA | 7.6 | 21.4 |
| Revenue growth | -1.2% | -4.2% |
| Operating margin | 4.1% | — |
| Net margin | 3.4% | 7.6% |
| Return on equity | 19.8% | 9.7% |
| Return on assets | 5.3% | 5.5% |
| Return on invested capital | 29.0% | — |
| FCF yield | 6.1% | 3.3% |
| Dividend yield | 1.2% | 2.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.09 | 0.06 |
| Current ratio | 1.18 | 1.04 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.15 | 3.87 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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