On this page we presented the MPC earnings surprises information for Marathon Petroleum, comparing the expected earnings versus the actual earnings quarter by quarter, with the resulting positive or negative percentage surprise. Any self directed investor doing their due diligence on MPC (or any other given stock) can benefit from researching all of the Marathon Petroleum past earnings going backwards in time, including how often the company beat or missed the market's expectations. To help you with this Marathon Petroleum earnings surprise research, on this page we presented each quarter's resulting numbers for easy comparison. Studying these numbers can help an investor by providing important context with which to think about MPC's next earnings report. In your continued research on Marathon Petroleum we hope you will be sure to check out the further links included for revenue and earnings history as well as next earnings dates for MPC. Thanks for visiting, and the next time you need to research MPC earnings surprises or those of another stock, we hope you'll think of our site as your go-to earnings surprises research resource of choice.