
Marathon Petroleum Earns $3.43 Billion in 2017, $5.5 Billion MPLX Offering
Marathon Petroleum Corp. (ticker: MPC) earned $2.02 billion, or $4.09 per diluted share, in Q4 2017. This is significantly more than in Q4 2016, where the company had earnings of $227 million, or $0.43 per diluted share. FY 2017 earnings saw a significant increase as well – $3.43 billion, or $6.70 per diluted share. Compared to FY 2016’s $1.17 billion,