Piper Sandler raised the firm’s price target on Marathon Petroleum (MPC) to $231 from $220 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares. The firm notes Q3 results have wrapped and margins remain impressively strong. And while Q3 results were solid, Piper sees Q4 shaping up even better, with capture tailwinds, demand resilient, and margins robust, despite throughput guides suggesting 2.4% increase year-over-year. In the end, the market is clearly tighter than anticipated, and the firm still sees it getting incrementally tighter in 2026, and the futures curve now agrees.
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