XOM stock price:$72.08-0.35%At close on September 20th, 2019
Updated on: September 20th, 2019
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Shares of Exxon Mobil depreciated a lame -0.35% and closed at $72.08. With Friday it's been 4 red days in a row.
Exxon Mobil Corporation explores for and produces crude oil and natural gas in the United States, Canada\u002FSouth America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia\u002FOceania.
Should I buy Exxon Mobil stock?
You can't be a successful trader if you don't follow a methodolgy or system that assist you in choosing companies and the correct market timing.Trading strategies are meant for helping you in the decision process of what stocks to pick and when is the best time to buy them.There are thousands of trading strategies for you to choose, but at Stocks2.com we prefer those that are simple but successful.
Currently, Exxon Mobil stock doesn't match any of these trading strategies, so our recommendation is not to buy.
Buy setup
Elegible
New all-time high
No
New 52 week high
No
Price crossing up 200d MA
No
100d MA crossing up 200d MA
No
This is not a selling recommendation at all, just it's not the best moment to buy if you follow any of these trading strategies.
Is Exxon Mobil stock a buy?
Banks and financial institutions publish stock ratings everyday.
At Stocks2.com, we gathered 15 ratings published for XOM stock in the last month.
Is XOM a good stock to buy?
Date
Analyst / Broker
Previous rating
Current rating
2019-8-6
DZ Bank
Sell
Hold
2019-8-5
Bank of America
n/a
Buy
2019-8-29
Independent Research
n/a
Neutral
2019-8-23
UBS Group
n/a
Neutral
2019-8-2
Royal Bank of Canada
n/a
Neutral
2019-8-2
Royal Bank of Canada
n/a
Neutral
2019-8-2
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
n/a
Neutral
2019-8-2
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
n/a
Neutral
2019-8-2
Credit Suisse Group
n/a
Neutral
2019-8-2
Credit Suisse Group
n/a
Neutral
2019-8-19
Barclays
n/a
Equal Weight
2019-7-2
Credit Suisse Group
n/a
Hold
2019-7-18
Royal Bank of Canada
Outperform
Sector Perform
2019-7-12
Morgan Stanley
n/a
Equal Weight
2019-6-24
Morgan Stanley
n/a
Hold
Exxon Mobil stock analysis
Daily outlook
Exxon Mobil shares depreciated -0.35% to $72.08 today.
Shares of Exxon Mobil ended today at $72.08 and depreciated a lame -0.35%. Since price and SMA200d lines crossed down on July, XOM fell $-4.05 per share (-5.32%). From a daily perspective, XOM is in a short term uptrend after plotting its last bottom ($70.70, on Sep 12th) higher than the previous bottom, and its last top ($75.18, on Monday) also over the previous top. Now trading in between its last bottom and last top XOM might consolidate in a plain range, waiting to break out over $75.18 or down under $70.70.
XOM stock chart (daily)
Weekly outlook
Exxon Mobil shares decreased -0.77% this week, ending at $72.08.
Since price and 40-weeks moving average lines crossed down by mid July, XOM fell $-4.60 per share (-6.00%). Stocks below the 200 days moving average line are usually not recommended for average traders.
XOM stock chart (weekly)
Exxon Mobil stock price history
Exxon Mobil stock historical price chart
XOM stock reached 52-week highs at $83.53, and all-time highs 2014-07-29 with a price of 86.17.
Exxon Mobil stock price target is $83.30
Predicting the price evolution of a stock or any financial instrument in a reliable and repeatable way is probably impossible. However, banks and other financial institutions analysts, with the help of lots of data and algorithms do their best to predict the stock prices movement. We do not recommend to follow these stock price predictions without a critical thinking from your side, as their accuracy is usually low. We have 13 price forecasts for XOM stock posted in the last 30 days:
XOM stock price predictions
Date
Analyst / Broker
Action
Previous target
Current target
Diff
2019-8-5
Bank of America
Reiterates
n/a
$100.00
-
2019-8-29
Independent Research
Set Price Target
n/a
$74.00
-
2019-8-23
UBS Group
Lowers Target
$87.00
$75.00
-13.8%
2019-8-2
Royal Bank of Canada
Set Price Target
n/a
$90.00
-
2019-8-2
Royal Bank of Canada
Reiterates
n/a
$90.00
-
2019-8-2
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Set Price Target
n/a
$85.00
-
2019-8-2
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Reiterates
n/a
$85.00
-
2019-8-2
Credit Suisse Group
Set Price Target
n/a
$74.00
-
2019-8-2
Credit Suisse Group
Reiterates
n/a
$74.00
-
2019-7-2
Credit Suisse Group
Set Price Target
n/a
$79.00
-
2019-7-18
Royal Bank of Canada
Downgrades
$100.00
$90.00
-10%
2019-7-12
Morgan Stanley
Lowers Target
$84.00
$83.00
-1.2%
2019-6-24
Morgan Stanley
Set Price Target
n/a
$84.00
-
(in average)
$90.30
$83.30
-8.0%
Moving in a range from $100.00 and $74.00, the price prediction for Exxon Mobil stock is $83.30. In average, analysts' outlook on XOM price target is negative, downgrading the forecast by a -8.00% from previous estimations.
Financials and fundamental analysis
Earnings date and Earnings per Share
After publishing its last earnings report on April, Exxon Mobil .Unfortunately, reported EPS is not yet available in our database.
XOM earnings date and EPS evolution
Quarter
Reporting date
Estimated EPS
Actual EPS
Surprise
2017-Q2
-
n/a
0.78
n/a
2017-Q3
2017-10-27
0.86
0.93
8.1%
2017-Q4
2018-02-02
1.04
0.88
-15.4%
2018-Q1
2018-04-27
1.14
1.09
-4.4%
2018-Q2
2018-07-27
1.26
0.92
-27.0%
2018-Q3
2018-11-02
1.21
1.46
20.7%
2018-Q4
2019-02-01
1.08
1.51
39.8%
2019-Q1
2019-04-25
0.93
n/a
n/a
2019-Q2
-
n/a
n/a
n/a
2019-Q3
-
n/a
n/a
n/a
Annual financial results
Compared to 2017, last anual sales report draw an outstanding growth of 17.78% to $279,332.00 M USD.On the other hand, its profit margin (compared to sales) stayed constant to 7.46%, that is $20,840.00 million.To have an up to date view of the financial situation of Exxon Mobil, we have calculated the trailing twelve month (TTM) sales and income figures. TTM values are the sum of the last 4 quarters and aproximate to an annual fiscal report ending in 2019-Q1 that can be compared to 2018 fiscal year results. Annual Exxon Mobil TTM sales up to March 2019 were $277,521.00 and earnings were $18,540.00 M USD.When comparing this TTM figures with the last reported annuality, we can esteem Exxon Mobil business evolution since December 2018: Annual sales up to March, compared to lastest yearly report, remained constant a lame -0.65%.In the same way, profit margin (net income/sales) stayed constant at 7.46%.
XOM annual Sales and Income evolution
Year
Sales
YoY
Income/(margin)
YoY
2013
$390,250 M
-
$32,580 M8.3%
-
2014
$394,105 M
0.99%
$32,520 M8.3%
-0.18%
2015
$259,488 M
-34.16%
$16,150 M6.2%
-50.34%
2016
$218,608 M
-15.75%
$7,840 M3.6%
-51.46%
2017
$237,162 M
8.49%
$19,710 M8.3%
151.40%
2018
$279,332 M
17.78%
$20,840 M7.5%
5.73%
TTM
$277,521 M
-0.65%
$18,540 M6.7%
-11.04%
Quarterly financial results
Exxon Mobil reported $63,625.00 million in revenues for 2019-Q1, a -6.78% decline compared to previous quarter.Reported quarter income marked $2,350.00 M with a profit margin of 3.69%. Profit margin slipped a -5.10% compared to previous quarter when profit margin was 8.79%.When comparing turnover to same quarter last year, Exxon Mobil sales marked a disappointing loss and slightly fell a -2.77%.Looking back to recent quarterly results, Exxon Mobil posted 2 positive quarters in a row.
XOM quarterly Sales and Income evolution
Quarter
Sales1
QoQ2
Income1/(margin)
QoQ2
2017-Q2
$55,240 M
-
$3,350 M6.1%
-
2017-Q3
$64,415 M
16.61%
$3,970 M6.2%
18.51%
2017-Q4
$65,312 M
1.39%
$8,380 M12.8%
111.08%
2018-Q1
$65,436 M
0.19%
$4,650 M7.1%
-44.51%
2018-Q2
$71,456 M
9.20%
$3,950 M5.5%
-15.05%
2018-Q3
$74,187 M
3.82%
$6,240 M8.4%
57.97%
2018-Q4
$68,253 M
-8.00%
$6,000 M8.8%
-3.85%
2019-Q1
$63,625 M
-6.78%
$2,350 M3.7%
-60.83%
Exxon Mobil ownership
When you are planning to buy shares of a stock, it's always worth to overview its ownership structure.
Exxon Mobil shares owned by insiders (that is, founders, CEO, CTO, main executives or other management staff) currently counts a 0.09% of all shares.
In case of Exxon Mobil stock, 55.56% of its shares are held by institutions (mutual funds, pension funds, big banks and other large financial institutions). Bearish positions for XOM stock account 0.00%, no big difference from last month.
The following table compares ownership indicators for other stocks related to Exxon Mobil:
XOM
BP
COP
CVX
E
Market cap
$304.9 B
$132.6 B
$67.6 B
$236.2 B
$57.5 B
Total shares
4,230.0 M
3,400.0 M
1,110.0 M
1,900.0 M
1,820.0 M
Float shares
4,220.0 M
3,320.0 M
1,110.0 M
1,900.0 M
1,230.0 M
- Institutional holdings (%)
55.6%
11.3%
75.1%
67.5%
1.7%
- Insider holdings (%)
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
Shares in short selling
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
Exxon Mobil summary
Friday, September 20th, 2019
Open
$72.49
Close
$72.08
Day range
$71.86 - $72.50
Previous close
$72.33
Session gain
-0.35%
Average true range
$1.19
50d mov avg
$71.36
100d mov avg
$72.92
200d mov avg
$73.76
Daily pattern
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Weekly pattern
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Exxon Mobil performance
Stocks performance is always measured in comparision to the market or competitors and related stocks in the same industry. We compared Exxon Mobil against BP p.l.c, , Chevron, ENI S.p.A, Hess, HollyFrontier, Honeywell International, Occidental Petroleum, and Total in the following table:
Stock
3m
6m
12m
XOMExxon Mobil
-6.07%
-8.28%
-11.48%
BPBP p.l.c
-6.61%
-8.47%
-7.32%
COP
1.40%
-6.96%
-18.70%
CVXChevron
0.53%
3.04%
6.79%
EENI S.p.A
-4.33%
-8.30%
-13.48%
HESHess
7.58%
12.55%
-5.37%
HFCHollyFrontier
20.21%
5.57%
-19.20%
HONHoneywell Interna...
-2.92%
9.13%
7.19%
OXYOccidental Petrol...
-8.10%
-27.56%
-39.21%
PSX
15.04%
9.69%
-4.12%
TOTTotal
-2.67%
-2.46%
-11.51%
Exxon Mobil competitors
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