FRU vs. MEG, SCR, CPG, PSK, WCP, ERF, POU, BTE, PEY, and NVA
Should you be buying Freehold Royalties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freehold Royalties include MEG Energy (MEG), Strathcona Resources (SCR), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), PrairieSky Royalty (PSK), Whitecap Resources (WCP), Enerplus (ERF), Paramount Resources (POU), Baytex Energy (BTE), Peyto Exploration & Development (PEY), and NuVista Energy (NVA). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Freehold Royalties (TSE:FRU) and MEG Energy (TSE:MEG) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Freehold Royalties has a beta of 2, indicating that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MEG Energy has a beta of 3.12, indicating that its stock price is 212% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Freehold Royalties presently has a consensus price target of C$17.55, suggesting a potential upside of 28.20%. MEG Energy has a consensus price target of C$32.67, suggesting a potential upside of 15.39%. Given Freehold Royalties' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Freehold Royalties is more favorable than MEG Energy.
In the previous week, Freehold Royalties' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled MEG Energy'saverage media sentiment score.
MEG Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Freehold Royalties. MEG Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freehold Royalties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
28.6% of Freehold Royalties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.4% of MEG Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Freehold Royalties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of MEG Energy shares are held by 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.
Freehold Royalties has a net margin of 43.19% compared to MEG Energy's net margin of 10.58%. Freehold Royalties' return on equity of 14.40% beat MEG Energy's return on equity.
Freehold Royalties received 151 more outperform votes than MEG Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.78% of users gave Freehold Royalties an outperform vote while only 56.87% of users gave MEG Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Freehold Royalties beats MEG Energy on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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