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Allen Good, CFA
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Marathon Petroleum's Earnings Enjoy Hurricane Bump; Shareholder Returns Continue, but Stock Near FVE

Marathon Petroleum reported strong third-quarter earnings as it was able to maintain high levels of utilization in the wake of Hurricane Harvey to capitalize on the strong margins and wide crude spreads that followed. Third-quarter earnings jumped to $903 million from $145 million the year before as refining operating income soared to $1.1 billion from $252 million last year on a combination of higher volumes and stronger margins. Refinery total throughput exceeded 2 million barrels a day during...
Underlying
Marathon Petroleum Corporation

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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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Allen Good, CFA

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