WCP vs. TOU, OVV, ARX, MEG, SCR, CPG, PSK, ERF, POU, and BTE
Should you be buying Whitecap Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whitecap Resources include Tourmaline Oil (TOU), Ovintiv (OVV), ARC Resources (ARX), MEG Energy (MEG), Strathcona Resources (SCR), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), PrairieSky Royalty (PSK), Enerplus (ERF), Paramount Resources (POU), and Baytex Energy (BTE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Tourmaline Oil (TSE:TOU) and Whitecap Resources (TSE:WCP) are both energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
53.4% of Tourmaline Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.2% of Whitecap Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Tourmaline Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Whitecap Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tourmaline Oil has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Whitecap Resources has a beta of 2.77, suggesting that its stock price is 177% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tourmaline Oil pays an annual dividend of C$1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Whitecap Resources pays an annual dividend of C$0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Tourmaline Oil pays out 25.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Whitecap Resources pays out 64.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Tourmaline Oil had 3 more articles in the media than Whitecap Resources. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Tourmaline Oil and 3 mentions for Whitecap Resources. Whitecap Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Tourmaline Oil's score of 0.32 indicating that Tourmaline Oil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Whitecap Resources received 193 more outperform votes than Tourmaline Oil when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.85% of users gave Whitecap Resources an outperform vote while only 71.64% of users gave Tourmaline Oil an outperform vote.
Tourmaline Oil presently has a consensus target price of C$78.38, indicating a potential upside of 15.92%. Whitecap Resources has a consensus target price of C$13.56, indicating a potential upside of 27.11%. Given Tourmaline Oil's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Whitecap Resources is more favorable than Tourmaline Oil.
Tourmaline Oil has higher revenue and earnings than Whitecap Resources. Whitecap Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tourmaline Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tourmaline Oil has a net margin of 35.78% compared to Tourmaline Oil's net margin of 21.27%. Tourmaline Oil's return on equity of 12.91% beat Whitecap Resources' return on equity.
Summary
Tourmaline Oil beats Whitecap Resources on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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