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Bank of America Corp. Upgrades Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) to “Buy”

The stock price is going above to its 52 week low with 146.87% and lagging behind from its 52 week high with -63.73%. The Company operates in three segments: North America E&P segment, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, NGLs and natural gas in North America; International E&P segment, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, NGLs and natural gas outside of North America and produces and markets products manufactured from natural gas, such as LNG and methanol, in Egypt and Oil Sands Mining segment, which mines, extracts and transports bitumen from oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, and upgrades the bitumen to produce and market synthetic crude oil and vacuum gas oil.

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During the last trading period, the peak price level of the share was $5.87; it means it is top price of day and down price level of the share was $5.70; it means minimum price of the day at which price share traded. (NYSE:WLL) is $11.62 while analysts mean recommendation is 2.50. “5” brokerage firms have rated the company as a “Hold”. The Speedway segment sells transportation fuels and convenience products in the retail market in the Midwest, East Coast and Southeast. The shares have been rated “Overweight” by the firm. Analysts estimated a revenue of $1.03B. Marathon Oil Corp. now has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $17.71.

Vale S.A.’s (VALE) made a return of 8.21%% in one month through last close, displaying a 37.12% return during the past three months. The corporation holds 391.42 million outstanding shares and its 379.77 million shares were floated in the market.

Merrill Lynch analyst Doug Leggate was out pounding the table on shares of Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) Wednesday, upgrading the stock from a Neutral to a Buy rating, while slightly raising the price target from $20 to $21, which represents a 38% increase from current levels. It recently traded in a range of $14.55-$14.92 at a volume of 13447905 shares.

Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) announced the earnings results for Fiscal Year 2016 and Q2. As per the latest research report, the brokerage house raises the price target to $16 per share from a prior target of $14. The company finished it is trading at $41.21. While this has positioned MRO with attractive upside versus peers we have previously viewed this as a binary outcome of higher oil prices. BlackRock Group LTD now owns 8,958,546 shares of the company’s stock worth $333,079,000 after buying an additional 463,634 shares in the last quarter. Analysts had expected $1.38B in revenue.

BoA-ML mentioned that in recent few months, his investment case in the company has become further strong on back of series of events related to the company, which included an improved balance sheet outlook post its asset disposals, company’s increased flexibility in Capital Spending etc. The analysts’ current consensus range is $-0.26-$0.04 for EPS.

In a different note, On Jul 14, 2016, Barclays said it Maintains its rating on Marathon Oil Corporation. Marathon Oil Corporation has its YTD performance of 20.09 Percent.

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Marathon Oil Corporation Upgraded to Buy Price Target Increased to $21 Bank of America Merrill Lynch