Reasonably pleasant results to the many individual stockholders, pension funds, teachers unions, credit unions, mutual funds, savings and loans, etc., that have the stocks in their portfolios.
They could be better; investors are worried that dividends will be down somewhat from the previous year.

Obscene? No, only reasonable considering the size and scale of operations.

Petronas of Malaysia, also a integrated explorer, producer and refiner, but smaller and newer, made more than double the profit percentage of Exxon-Mobil.