ATH vs. OVV, CPG, MEG, PSK, SCR, ERF, WCP, PEY, NVA, and POU
Should you be buying Athabasca Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Athabasca Oil include Ovintiv (OVV), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), MEG Energy (MEG), PrairieSky Royalty (PSK), Strathcona Resources (SCR), Enerplus (ERF), Whitecap Resources (WCP), Peyto Exploration & Development (PEY), NuVista Energy (NVA), and Paramount Resources (POU). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Athabasca Oil vs.
Athabasca Oil (TSE:ATH) and Ovintiv (TSE:OVV) are both energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Athabasca Oil received 360 more outperform votes than Ovintiv when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.76% of users gave Ovintiv an outperform vote while only 55.76% of users gave Athabasca Oil an outperform vote.
17.4% of Athabasca Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.2% of Ovintiv shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Athabasca Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Ovintiv shares are owned 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.
Ovintiv has a net margin of 20.34% compared to Athabasca Oil's net margin of 17.53%. Ovintiv's return on equity of 19.62% beat Athabasca Oil's return on equity.
Athabasca Oil presently has a consensus target price of C$6.25, indicating a potential upside of 13.43%. Ovintiv has a consensus target price of C$68.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.79%. Given Athabasca Oil's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Athabasca Oil is more favorable than Ovintiv.
Athabasca Oil has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ovintiv has a beta of 2.63, suggesting that its stock price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ovintiv had 14 more articles in the media than Athabasca Oil. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Ovintiv and 2 mentions for Athabasca Oil. Ovintiv's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Athabasca Oil's score of 0.75 indicating that Ovintiv is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ovintiv has higher revenue and earnings than Athabasca Oil. Ovintiv is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Athabasca Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ovintiv beats Athabasca Oil on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:ATH) was last updated on 3/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
