ARX vs. IMO, CVE, OVV, HSE, VRN, COP, POU, SSL, BTE, and GBR
Should you be buying ARC Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ARC Resources include Imperial Oil (IMO), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Ovintiv (OVV), Husky Energy Inc. (HSE.TO) (HSE), Veren (VRN), Coro Mining (COP), Paramount Resources (POU), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), Baytex Energy (BTE), and Great Bear Resources (GBR). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
ARC Resources vs.
Imperial Oil (TSE:IMO) and ARC Resources (TSE:ARX) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
24.9% of Imperial Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of ARC Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 71.3% of Imperial Oil shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of ARC Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Imperial Oil presently has a consensus target price of C$103.89, indicating a potential upside of 20.65%. ARC Resources has a consensus target price of C$32.58, indicating a potential upside of 25.25%. Given ARC Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ARC Resources is more favorable than Imperial Oil.
Imperial Oil pays an annual dividend of C$2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. ARC Resources pays an annual dividend of C$0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Imperial Oil pays out 25.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ARC Resources pays out 35.9% 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. Imperial Oil is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
ARC Resources has a net margin of 20.95% compared to Imperial Oil's net margin of 10.00%. Imperial Oil's return on equity of 21.23% beat ARC Resources' return on equity.
Imperial Oil has a beta of 1.78, suggesting that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARC Resources has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ARC Resources had 3 more articles in the media than Imperial Oil. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for ARC Resources and 6 mentions for Imperial Oil. Imperial Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat ARC Resources' score of 0.12 indicating that Imperial Oil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Imperial Oil has higher revenue and earnings than ARC Resources. Imperial Oil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ARC Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ARC Resources received 346 more outperform votes than Imperial Oil when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.81% of users gave ARC Resources an outperform vote while only 34.81% of users gave Imperial Oil an outperform vote.
Summary
ARC Resources beats Imperial Oil on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:ARX) was last updated on 4/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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