Exxon Mobil (XOM) Stock Forecast, Price & News

21 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Exxon Mobil in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" XOM shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in XOM, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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21 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Exxon Mobil's stock. Their XOM share price forecasts range from $103.00 to $144.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $124.32 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.2% from the stock's current price.
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Exxon Mobil's stock was trading at $110.30 at the start of the year. Since then, XOM stock has increased by 1.4% and is now trading at $111.83.
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Exxon Mobil saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 33,530,000 shares, an increase of 16.5% from the July 15th total of 28,790,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 15,720,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.1 days. Approximately 0.8% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October 27th 2023.
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Exxon Mobil Co. (NYSE:XOM) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, July, 28th. The oil and gas company reported $1.94 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $2.00 by $0.06. The oil and gas company earned $82.91 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $81.80 billion. Exxon Mobil had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 25.82% and a net margin of 13.72%. Exxon Mobil's quarterly revenue was down 28.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $4.14 earnings per share.
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Exxon Mobil announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 28th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, August 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.91 per share on Monday, September 11th. This represents a $3.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.25%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 15th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) stock in their portfolio include Vanguard Energy ETF (VDE), Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE), iShares U.S. Energy ETF (IYE), Strive U.S. Energy ETF (DRLL), Fidelity MSCI Energy Index ETF (FENY), iShares MSCI Global Energy Producers ETF (FILL), iShares Global Energy ETF (IXC) and ProShares Ultra Energy (DIG).

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) pays an annual dividend of $3.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.25%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 40 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 29.12%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, XOM will have a dividend payout ratio of 39.96% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Exxon Mobil declared that its board has approved a stock buyback program on Tuesday, February 1st 2022, which authorizes the company to repurchase $10,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 2.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

436 employees have rated Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods on Glassdoor.com. Darren Woods has an approval rating of 26% among the company's employees. This puts Darren Woods in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 43.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Exxon Mobil to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Exxon Mobil investors own include AT&T (T), Chevron (CVX), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Verizon Communications (VZ), Intel (INTC), Pfizer (PFE), Walt Disney (DIS), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and General Electric (GE).

Exxon Mobil trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "XOM."

Exxon Mobil's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich (25.53%), BlackRock Inc. (6.79%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.85%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.18%), Northern Trust Corp (1.08%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.81%). Insiders that own company stock include Darren W Woods, Darrin L Talley, James M Spellings Jr, Jeffrey W Ubben, Leonard M Fox, Linda D Ducharme, Michael J Angelakis and Stephen A Littleton.
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Shares of XOM stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of XOM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $111.83.

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) has a market capitalization of $447.68 billion and generates $413.68 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas company earns $55.74 billion in net income (profit) each year or $12.50 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 62,000 workers across the globe.

Exxon Mobil's mailing address is 5959 LAS COLINAS BOULEVARD, IRVING TX, 75039. The official website for the company is corporate.exxonmobil.com. The oil and gas company can be reached via phone at (972) 940-6000, via email at shareholderrelations@exxonmobil.com, or via fax at 972-444-1433.