CNQ vs. SHEL, TTE, EOG, PXD, OXY, E, CVE, FANG, DVN, and CTRA
Should you be buying Canadian Natural Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Natural Resources include Shell (SHEL), TotalEnergies (TTE), EOG Resources (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), ENI (E), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), and Coterra Energy (CTRA). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Canadian Natural Resources (NYSE:CNQ) and Shell (NYSE:SHEL) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
Canadian Natural Resources presently has a consensus price target of $94.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.35%. Shell has a consensus price target of $79.67, suggesting a potential upside of 9.46%. Given Canadian Natural Resources' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Canadian Natural Resources is more favorable than Shell.
Canadian Natural Resources pays an annual dividend of $3.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Shell pays an annual dividend of $2.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Canadian Natural Resources pays out 61.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shell pays out 50.7% 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, Shell had 23 more articles in the media than Canadian Natural Resources. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Shell and 8 mentions for Canadian Natural Resources. Canadian Natural Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Shell's score of 0.33 indicating that Canadian Natural Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shell has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Natural Resources. Shell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Natural Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Canadian Natural Resources has a net margin of 18.21% compared to Shell's net margin of 5.83%. Canadian Natural Resources' return on equity of 20.58% beat Shell's return on equity.
Canadian Natural Resources has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shell has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Natural Resources received 317 more outperform votes than Shell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.22% of users gave Canadian Natural Resources an outperform vote while only 64.57% of users gave Shell an outperform vote.
74.0% of Canadian Natural Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.6% of Shell shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Canadian Natural Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Shell shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Canadian Natural Resources beats Shell on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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