IPCO vs. FRU, PXT, AAV, HWX, VET, NVA, ATH, BIR, PEY, and KEL
Should you be buying International Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of International Petroleum include Freehold Royalties (FRU), Parex Resources (PXT), Advantage Energy (AAV), Headwater Exploration (HWX), Vermilion Energy (VET), NuVista Energy (NVA), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Birchcliff Energy (BIR), Peyto Exploration & Development (PEY), and Kelt Exploration (KEL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
International Petroleum (TSE:IPCO) and Freehold Royalties (TSE:FRU) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
17.1% of International Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.4% of Freehold Royalties shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.7% of International Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Freehold Royalties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
International Petroleum has a beta of 2.53, meaning that its stock price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freehold Royalties has a beta of 2.01, meaning that its stock price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
International Petroleum presently has a consensus target price of C$18.25, indicating a potential upside of 0.33%. Freehold Royalties has a consensus target price of C$17.55, indicating a potential upside of 27.36%. Given Freehold Royalties' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Freehold Royalties is more favorable than International Petroleum.
In the previous week, Freehold Royalties had 14 more articles in the media than International Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Freehold Royalties and 0 mentions for International Petroleum. Freehold Royalties' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat International Petroleum's score of 0.00 indicating that Freehold Royalties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
International Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Freehold Royalties. International Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freehold Royalties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Freehold Royalties has a net margin of 41.93% compared to International Petroleum's net margin of 20.25%. International Petroleum's return on equity of 16.91% beat Freehold Royalties' return on equity.
Freehold Royalties received 469 more outperform votes than International Petroleum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.78% of users gave Freehold Royalties an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave International Petroleum an outperform vote.
Summary
Freehold Royalties beats International Petroleum on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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