Shares of Marathon Oil Corp. MRO, +1.03% rose 1.03% to $24.57 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.45% rising 0.45% to 4,740.56 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.00% remaining mostly unchanged at 37,306.02.
Marathon Oil Corp. closed $5.28 below its 52-week high ($29.85), which the company achieved on January 24th.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Monday, as Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM, +0.74% rose 0.74% to $101.65 and Chevron Corp. CVX, +0.22% rose 0.22% to $149.68.
Trading volume (11.5 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 10.2 M.