FRU vs. MEG, CPG, SCR, PSK, WCP, ERF, POU, BTE, ATH, and NVA
Should you be buying Freehold Royalties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freehold Royalties include MEG Energy (MEG), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Strathcona Resources (SCR), PrairieSky Royalty (PSK), Whitecap Resources (WCP), Enerplus (ERF), Paramount Resources (POU), Baytex Energy (BTE), Athabasca Oil (ATH), 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 better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
Freehold Royalties has a beta of 2, suggesting that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MEG Energy has a beta of 3.12, suggesting that its stock price is 212% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, MEG Energy had 4 more articles in the media than Freehold Royalties. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for MEG Energy and 3 mentions for Freehold Royalties. MEG Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Freehold Royalties' score of 0.25 indicating that MEG Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Freehold Royalties received 150 more outperform votes than MEG Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.71% of users gave Freehold Royalties an outperform vote while only 56.77% of users gave MEG Energy an outperform vote.
28.6% of Freehold Royalties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.4% of MEG Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Freehold Royalties shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of MEG Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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 currently has a consensus target price of C$17.45, indicating a potential upside of 22.11%. MEG Energy has a consensus target price of C$33.08, indicating a potential upside of 18.54%. Given Freehold Royalties' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Freehold Royalties is more favorable than MEG Energy.
Summary
Freehold Royalties beats MEG Energy on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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