Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. MPC scored 59.0, DINO scored 60.7 — DINO leads.
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MPC
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing · Quality-Growth
59
$455.03 · $127.8B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
1.7
DINO leads
DINO
HF Sinclair Corporation
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing · Quality-Growth
60.7
$121.30 · $21.6B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestDINO11.6x
Fastest growthDINO+16.3%
Strongest balance sheetDINO0.32
Highest qualityMPC80 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueMPC-66%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
MPC
stronger →← stronger
DINO
80
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
74
50
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
50
52
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
60
MPC and DINO split the three pillars evenly.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
MPC
DINO
$12.9bA-
FCF
$2.3bB
+15.0%B+
Rev
+16.3%B+
1.33C
D/E
0.32B+
16.0xB
P/E
11.6xB+
1.07B+
PEG
1.29B
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
MPC
DINO
66% below
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
63% below
~-15%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~-13%/yr
+156%
1-yr DCF upside
+131%
+192%
5-yr DCF upside
+171%
+257%
10-yr DCF upside
+245%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing · market cap $127.8b. 3% off the 52-week high of $470.00. Revenue growing +15%, comfortably above the S&P median. 18 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $400.00 (implying -12% upside).
Moat
ROE 45% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which. FCF converts 151% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash. $127.8b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
Reserve-replacement treadmill — every barrel or ounce extracted has to be replaced through exploration or acquisition; underspending on replacement reserves shows up in production declines 2-3 years out.
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing · market cap $21.6b. Trading near 52-week high of $124.22 — momentum setup, limited technical margin of safety. Revenue growing +16%, comfortably above the S&P median. 15 sell-side analysts rate this a Hold with a mean 1-yr target of $110.60 (implying -9% upside).
Moat
ROE 19% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. FCF converts 121% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash.
Risk
Trading within 2% of the 52-week high — limited technical margin of safety; a momentum reversal would test conviction. Commodity exposure — earnings power tracks the price of the underlying commodity, not management execution. A 15-20% move in the commodity reprices the equity well before fundamentals catch up.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where MPC and DINO diverge
On the headline score the gap is 1.7 points in favor of DINO. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
ValueMPC 51.5 · DINO 60.3DINO +8.8
QualityMPC 79.6 · DINO 74.1MPC +5.5
GrowthMPC 50.0 · DINO 50.0level
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is DINO or MPC the better stock?
DINO scores higher: DINO 60.7, MPC 59.0 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do DINO and MPC differ most?
The widest gap is value, where DINO leads by 9 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are DINO and MPC scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.