Marathon Petroleum Meets Fourth-Quarter Expectations, Remains Our Preferred Play in Refining
After already updating its strategic plan in early January and reporting earnings that largely met expectations, there was little of note in Marathon Petroleum’s fourth-quarter earnings. Capital spending guidance for 2017 of $1.7 billion for Marathon Petroleum and $1.7 billion for MPLX, its master limited partnership, was slightly above our forecast, but not enough to merit a change in our fair value estimate. Our narrow moat rating remains unchanged as well. We continue to see Marathon as one o...Marathon Petroleum is an independent petroleum refining and marketing, retail and midstream company. The company's segments include: Refining and Marketing, which refines crude oil and other feedstocks at its refineries, purchases refined products and ethanol for resale and distributes refined products; Retail, which sells transportation fuels and convenience products in the retail market across the U.S.; and Midstream, which transports, stores, distributes and markets crude oil and refined products via refining logistics assets, pipelines, terminals, towboats and barges, gathers, processes and transports natural gas, and gathers, transports, fractionates, stores and markets natural gas liquids.
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