Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations

  • All
    companies
  • All
    industries
23 of 1000
BACKNEXT
23. Marathon Oil
Marathon Oil
Get Quote: MRO
Financials: Latest Results
Rank: 23 (Previous rank: 36)
Compare tool: Marathon Oil vs. Top 10
CEO: Clarence P. Cazalot Jr.
Address: 5555 San Felipe Rd.
Houston, TX 77056
Phone: 713-629-6600
Website: www.marathon.com
Breaking up is hard to do - at least for Marathon Oil. In a bid to lift its sagging stock, Marathon said last summer it would separate into two public companies, one for oil exploration and one for refining. Then the stock market imploded and Marathon wisely backed off.

Now, Marathon is battling weak oil prices, and spending loads of cash on a refinery in Garyville, La. Investors don't care much these days about the refinery business - they favor the cash flow of oil production. But the Garyville project will help Marathon meet growing demand for diesel fuel and net it some valuable tax breaks. - M.C.

  $ millions % change from 2007
Revenues 73,504.0 22.4
Profits 3,528.0 -10.8
Assets 42,686.0 —
Stockholders' equity 21,409.0 —
Market value (3/27/2009) 19,328.0 —
Profits as % of  
Revenues 4.8
Assets 8.3
Stockholders' equity 16.5
Earnings per share  
2008 $ 4.95
% change from 2007 -13.0
1998-2008 annual growth rate % 25.2
Total return to investors %
2008 -53.9
1998-2008 annual rate 9.1
Rank Company 500
rank		 Revenues
($ millions)
1 Exxon Mobil 1 442,851.0
2 Chevron 3 263,159.0
3 ConocoPhillips 4 230,764.0
4 Valero Energy 10 118,298.0
5 Marathon Oil 23 73,504.0
6 Sunoco 41 51,652.0
7 Hess 55 41,094.0
8 Tesoro 91 28,031.0
9 Murphy Oil 92 27,512.5
10 Western Refining 253 10,725.6
11 Frontier Oil 383 6,498.8
12 Holly 420 5,867.7
13 CVR Energy 472 5,016.1
14 United Refining 688 2,994.2
15 Calumet Specialty Products 779 2,489.0
Issue date: May 4, 2009
Revenues: Excise taxes have been deducted.
See Marathon Oil in...
...Top 50 Headquarters
MAPS
What Readers Say
They speak out on Exxon Mobil and other 500 companies...
National average for taxes on Gasoline is 47.7 cents per gallon. ht...
 
After the sound. In the air, with the voice of a clarinet, I he...
 
I just don't understand how the oil companies can make so much in p...
 
Have your say
Find your top companies
 High revenue growth  High profit growth
 High EPS growth  High return to investors
 Top 5 in its industry  Best company to work for
 Big employer  Small employer


Download the Fortune 500
(HOW THIS TOOL WORKS)

Video
Top 3

Rank # of Fortune 500 Companies
Texas 64
New York 56
California 51
See the rest
Company 2008 $ (millions)
Exxon Mobil $45,220.0
Chevron $23,931.0
Microsoft $17,681.0
See the rest
FAQ and methodology
Included in the survey are U.S. incorporated companies filing financial statements with a government agency. This includes private companies... More
Current Issue
100 Best Companies to Work For
100 Best Companies to Work For
  • Give the gift of Fortune
  • Get the Fortune app
  • Subscribe
Contact Us Closed Captioning Manage Cookies+ Site Map

Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.