ARX vs. TOU, OVV, MEG, SCR, CPG, PSK, WCP, ERF, POU, and BTE Should you be buying ARC Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ARC Resources include Tourmaline Oil (TOU), Ovintiv (OVV), MEG Energy (MEG), Strathcona Resources (SCR), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), PrairieSky Royalty (PSK), Whitecap Resources (WCP), 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 ARC Resources (TSE:ARX ) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
53.4% of Tourmaline Oil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.6% of ARC Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Tourmaline Oil shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of ARC Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tourmaline Oil presently has a consensus price target of C$78.38, suggesting a potential upside of 15.92%. ARC Resources has a consensus price target of C$29.85, suggesting a potential upside of 15.73%. Given ARC Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Tourmaline Oil is more favorable than ARC Resources.
Tourmaline Oil pays an annual dividend of C$1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. ARC Resources pays an annual dividend of C$0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Tourmaline Oil pays out 25.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ARC Resources pays out 34.2% 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.
Tourmaline Oil has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARC Resources has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ARC Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Tourmaline Oil. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ARC Resources and 6 mentions for Tourmaline Oil. ARC Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Tourmaline Oil's score of 0.42 indicating that Tourmaline Oil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tourmaline Oil received 200 more outperform votes than ARC Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.64% of users gave Tourmaline Oil an outperform vote while only 65.85% of users gave ARC Resources an outperform vote.
Tourmaline Oil has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ARC Resources. ARC 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 22.74%. Tourmaline Oil's return on equity of 16.66% beat ARC Resources' return on equity.
Summary Tourmaline Oil beats ARC Resources on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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