Marathon Petroleum Corp. stock falls Friday, underperforms market - MarketWatch

Marathon Petroleum Corp. stock falls Friday, underperforms market - MarketWatch

Shares of Marathon Petroleum Corp. MPC, -1.17% slid 1.17% to $150.87 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,

+0.17%
rising 0.17% to 4,754.63 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,

-0.05%
falling 0.05% to 37,385.97.

This was the stock's third consecutive day of losses.

Marathon Petroleum Corp. closed $8.78 below its 52-week high ($159.65), which the company achieved on November 2nd.

The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM, +0.18% rose 0.18% to $101.91 and Chevron Corp.
CVX,

+0.23%
rose 0.23% to $151.05.

Trading volume (2.1 M) remained 996,232 below its 50-day average volume of 3.1 M.

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