MPC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Marathon Petroleum | NYSE:MPC)

Marathon Petroleum is a leading integrated downstream and midstream energy company that operates 13 refineries in the Gulf Coast, midcontinent, and West Coast regions of the United States with an aggregate crude oil refining capacity of 3.0 million barrels per day. The company is one of the largest producers of renewable diesel in the US; its Dickinson, North Dakota, facility has the capacity to produce 184 million gallons per year, and its Martinez, California, joint venture facility (a 50/50 partnership with Neste) reached its full capacity of 730 million gallons per year in late 2024. Marathon also owns the general partner and approximately 64% of MPLX LP, a large-cap master limited partnership that owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and logistics assets.

Marathon Petroleum trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MPC.

As of October 2, 2026, MPC stock price climbed to $422.33 with 2,028,084 million shares trading.

MPC has a beta of -0.89, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MPC has a correlation of 0.07 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MPC has a market cap of $123.29 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Marathon Petroleum reported $52 billion in Revenue and $17.73 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $12 billion and exceeded earnings estimates by $5.42.

In the last 3 years, MPC traded as high as $431.08 and as low as $115.10.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MPC belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, XLE, IVV.

MPC has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +121.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +16.1%. In the last 3 month period, MPC beat the market returning +58.9%, while SPY returned +3.6%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks MPC has underperformed the stock market by returning -0.6%, while SPY returned +1.0%.

MPC support price is $407.82 and resistance is $432.48 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MPC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.