Exxon Mobil Earnings Nearly Double on Higher Oil Prices
28 July 2017 - 11:34PM
Dow Jones News
By Ezequiel Minaya
Exxon Mobil Corp.'s profit in the second quarter nearly doubled
as the oil giant continued to see its business rebound amid
recovering commodity prices.
But shares in the company slipped 2% in premarket trading to
$79.20 as the company missed Wall Street's expectations on
earnings.
Oil prices have risen recently to two-month highs on building
momentum from recent inventory declines. U.S. prices have settled
above the $49 mark for the first time since May 30 and
momentum-based traders appear poised to send prices back above $50
a barrel, brokers have said.
Exxon Mobil, the largest U.S. oil company, has joined its peers
in cutting spending through a prolonged downturn that has seen
crude prices fall from $114 a barrel to $27 a barrel and remain
about $50 a barrel.
"These solid results across our businesses were driven by higher
commodity prices and a continued focus on operations and business
fundamentals," said Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive, in
prepared remarks.
Mr. Woods took the helm recently from Rex Tillerson, who was
tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. Secretary of
State.
For the June quarter, Exxon reported its profit climbed to $3.35
billion, or 78 cents a share, from $1.70 billion, or 41 cents a
share, a year earlier. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected
earnings of 84 cents a share.
In the first quarter, the company posted profit of $4.01
billion, up from $1.81 billion a year earlier.
Revenue rose 9% to $62.88 billion, which came in about $1
billion ahead of estimates from analysts.
The exploration and production, or upstream, business swung to a
$1.18 billion profit from a $294 million loss a year ago. In the
U.S., the upstream division narrowed its loss to $183 million from
$514 million the year before.
In the refining and marketing, or downstream, business, earnings
were $1.39 billion, up $825 million from the year-earlier period,
lifted by improved refinery volume and better margins.
Write to Ezequiel Minaya at ezequiel.minaya@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 28, 2017 09:19 ET (13:19 GMT)
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