5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Marathon Petroleum
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, refinery operator Marathon Petroleum (NYS: MPC) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Marathon's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Marathon facts
Headquarters (Founded) | Findlay, Ohio (spun off from Marathon Oil, July 2011) |
Market Cap | $13.4 billion |
Industry | Oil and gas refining and marketing |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $71.6 billion |
Management | CEO Gary Heminger |
Cash/Debt | $3.0 billion / $3.3 billion |
Dividend Yield | 2.7% |
Competitors | Chevron |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 91 members who have rated Marathon believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Earlier this month, one of those Fools, jamespeer, offered a few reasons that Marathon looks like an attractive bargain:
* We're looking at around $80 [billion] for FY 2011 revenue so the stock is currently trading at around 0.15 sales!
* The bottom line for FY 2011 should come in around $2-2.5 [billion] taking into account the "small loss" expected for Q4, so we're trading at a mere 4.7 x FY 2011 earnings!
* $25 [billion] in assets, no intangibles, even taking into account ALL liabilities we're trading close to book value right now.
The stock is oversold ... willing to take a little gamble as results are due on 01 Feb, I don't think there will be anything in management's 2012 outlook to cause the stock to decline further.
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