3 Factors That Make Marathon Oil A Strong Buy Today

By Bret Jensen:Major integrated energy companies prodded by activist fund managers have done a great job unlocking shareholder value recently. First Marathon Oil (MRO) spun out its refining assets in Marathon Petroleum (MPC) in 2011.

By Stock Croc:Global energy giant Exxon Mobil (XOM) manages to retain its position as king of the energy heap by being one of the lowest cost producers among its peers. The low cost is attributed to its integration of all aspects of exploration, production, upstream, midstream and downstream asset.

By Colin Lokey:With a market cap of nearly $12 billion, Marathon Petroleum Company (MPC) is a large, independent refiner, transporter, and marketer of petroleum products. On June 31, 2011 the company debuted on the NYSE after being spun-off from parent company Marathon Oil (MRO).

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By Jim Pyke:Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) was spun off from Marathon Corp. (MRO) in 2011. The spin off occurred on June 30, 2011 with shareholders of MRO receiving one share of MPC for every two shares of MRO that they owned.

By James Shell:Last June, Marathon Oil (MRO) spun off its refining group into an independent publicly traded company, Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC).

ByKyle Spencer:Marathon Petroleum (MPC) is a refining, marketing and transportation company, with headquarters in Findlay, Ohio formed in 1998 from a merger of the downstream operations of Ashland, Inc., and Marathon Oil (MRO). In 2011, Marathon Petroleum was spun off from Marathon Oil.

By Trefis: ConocoPhillips (COP) will declare its Q4 results on Thursday, January 31. This will be the first full annual result for ConocoPhillips as a pure-play upstream segment company. Therefore, any comparison of revenues or profits to figures from last year would be a meaningless exercise at this point. We expect the company to release revised figures for previous years as an upstream company.