XOM stock price:$77.08-0.71%At close on July 15th, 2019
Updated on: July 15th, 2019
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Shares of Exxon Mobil closed today at $77.08 and slightly fell an ugly -0.71%.
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.
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Buy setup
Elegible
New all-time high
No
New 52 week high
No
Price crossing up 200d MA
Yes
100d MA crossing up 200d MA
No
Is Exxon Mobil stock a buy?
Everyday, hundreds of stock ratings are posted by financial analysts to indicate a particular stock's attractiveness.
At Stocks2.com, we gathered 15 ratings published for XOM stock in the last 30 days.
Is XOM a good stock to buy?
Date
Analyst / Broker
Previous rating
Current rating
2019-7-2
Credit Suisse Group
n/a
Hold
2019-7-12
Morgan Stanley
n/a
Equal Weight
2019-6-24
Morgan Stanley
n/a
Hold
2019-5-23
HSBC
n/a
Neutral
2019-5-16
Morgan Stanley
n/a
Equal Weight
2019-5-13
HSBC
Buy
Hold
2019-4-8
Tudor Pickering
Hold
Hold
2019-4-3
Wells Fargo & Co
Market Perform
Market Perform
2019-4-26
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
n/a
Neutral
2019-4-26
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
n/a
Neutral
2019-4-26
Goldman Sachs Group
n/a
Neutral
2019-4-26
Goldman Sachs Group
n/a
Neutral
2019-4-25
Royal Bank of Canada
n/a
Buy
2019-4-1
Morgan Stanley
n/a
Equal Weight
2019-3-8
Cowen
Outperform
Market Perform
Exxon Mobil stock analysis
Daily outlook
Shares of Exxon Mobil slightly fell an ugly -0.71% and closed at $77.08.
Exxon Mobil closed today at $77.08 and slightly fell an ugly -0.71%. Since price and SMA200d lines crossed up on July 8th, XOM climbed $0.95 (1.25%). On June 10th, SMA100d and SMA200d crossed up triggering a rise of 3.35%.
XOM stock chart (daily)
Weekly outlook
Exxon Mobil ended this week at $77.08 and depreciated an unpleasant -0.71%. Early June XOM boosted a brilliant 5.11% in just one week.
Exxon Mobil is in a clear downtrend, marking successive falling tops and bottoms. Now is trading in between the - range. If the support holds the price, this might mark a double bottom configuration and create a flat-base to reverse this downtrend. Since price and SMA40w lines crossed up by mid June, XOM climbed $2.73 (3.67%). Since SMA20d and SMA40w crossed up late May, XOM price climbed $2.98 per share (4.02%).
XOM stock chart (weekly)
Exxon Mobil stock price history
Exxon Mobil stock historical price chart
XOM stock reached 52-week highs on September at $84.56, and all-time highs 2014-07-29 with a price of 87.24.
Exxon Mobil stock price target is $84.10
Nobody can reliably foresee how stock prices may evolve in the future. However, financial institutions invest time and resources to provide the most accurated estimations to help investors to make their decisions. You should not follow the analysts' XOM stock price predictions in the hope that they will be met as they may be wrong and not met. We found 13 price predictions for XOM stock posted in the last 30 days:
XOM stock price predictions
Date
Analyst / Broker
Action
Previous target
Current target
Diff
2019-7-2
Credit Suisse Group
Set Price Target
n/a
$79.00
-
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
-
2019-5-23
HSBC
Set Price Target
n/a
$86.50
-
2019-5-16
Morgan Stanley
Lowers Target
$86.00
$85.00
-1.2%
2019-4-8
Tudor Pickering
Initiates
n/a
$82.49
-
2019-4-3
Wells Fargo & Co
Raises Target
$76.00
$80.00
5.3%
2019-4-26
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Set Price Target
n/a
$87.00
-
2019-4-26
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Reiterates
n/a
$87.00
-
2019-4-26
Goldman Sachs Group
Set Price Target
n/a
$82.00
-
2019-4-26
Goldman Sachs Group
Reiterates
n/a
$82.00
-
2019-4-25
Royal Bank of Canada
Set Price Target
n/a
$100.00
-
2019-3-8
Cowen
Downgrades
$100.00
$75.00
-25%
(in average)
$86.50
$84.10
-3.0%
The price forecast for Exxon Mobil stock is $84.10, moving in a range between $100.00 and $75.00. In average, analysts' outlook on XOM price forecast is negative, downgrading the target by a -3.00% from previous estimations.
Financials and fundamental analysis
Earnings date and Earnings per Share
Since April, when Exxon Mobil presented its last earnings report, it declined a tragic -5.18%.As soon as we get its actual EPS from the earnings report, we will update this review.
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
In 2018, Exxon Mobil annual turnover climbed an exceptional 17.78% to $279,332.00 million USD from $237,162.00 marked in 2017.When comparing 2018 vs 2017, on the other hand, profit margin (that is, the net income divided by revenues) remained constant a -0.85% to 7.46%.To have an updated picture 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 dollars.If we compare this TTM figures with the last reported annuality, we can review Exxon Mobil business evolution since December 2018: Annual revenues up to March, compared to lastest yearly report, stayed stable an unpleasant -0.65%.Regarding profit margin, Exxon Mobil stayed steady -0.78% to 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 sales for 2019-Q1, a -6.78% less compared to previous quarter.Reported quarter income marked $2,350.00 M with a profit margin of 3.69%. Profit margin fell a -5.10% compared to previous quarter when profit margin was 8.79%.When comparing revenues to same quarter last year, Exxon Mobil sales marked a lame drop down and decreased 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 invest in a stock, it's always worth to check its ownership structure.
Management staff in all public traded companies that hold equity is required to report every transaction to the SEC. For Exxon Mobil, 0.09% of all outstanding shares are owned by its staff.
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
$326.0 B
$138.3 B
$68.5 B
$238.9 B
$60.8 B
Total shares
4,230.0 M
3,400.0 M
1,130.0 M
1,900.0 M
1,820.0 M
Float shares
4,220.0 M
3,310.0 M
1,130.0 M
1,900.0 M
1,270.0 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
Monday, July 15th, 2019
Open
$77.63
Close
$77.08
Day range
$76.89 - $77.74
Previous close
$77.63
Session gain
-0.71%
Average true range
$0.94
50d mov avg
$75.42
100d mov avg
$77.55
200d mov avg
$76.27
Daily pattern
Weekly pattern
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Exxon Mobil performance
To better understand Exxon Mobil performance you must compare its gains with other related stocks in same sector or industry. For Exxon Mobil, the benchmark is made against BP p.l.c, , Chevron, ENI S.p.A, Hess, HollyFrontier, Honeywell International, Occidental Petroleum, and Total.
Stock
3m
6m
12m
XOMExxon Mobil
-3.90%
8.00%
-1.17%
BPBP p.l.c
-7.02%
2.73%
-3.28%
COP
-7.50%
-9.83%
-12.18%
CVXChevron
5.92%
12.12%
6.91%
EENI S.p.A
-3.41%
5.13%
-7.45%
HESHess
-4.09%
24.20%
-3.47%
HFCHollyFrontier
2.13%
-13.09%
-30.83%
HONHoneywell Interna...
4.01%
24.62%
21.71%
OXYOccidental Petrol...
-15.15%
-20.80%
-34.70%
PSX
6.96%
8.00%
-5.31%
TOTTotal
1.13%
6.45%
-3.18%
Exxon Mobil competitors
One check before investing in any stock is to have a look a list of its competitors, in this case for Exxon Mobil. We selected 10 companies as Exxon Mobil competitors as they are in the same industry or have similar market objectives.