IPCO vs. FRU, PXT, HWX, NVA, VET, AAV, BIR, ATH, 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), Headwater Exploration (HWX), NuVista Energy (NVA), Vermilion Energy (VET), Advantage Energy (AAV), Birchcliff Energy (BIR), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Peyto Exploration & Development (PEY), and Kelt Exploration (KEL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Freehold Royalties (TSE:FRU) and International Petroleum (TSE:IPCO) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
29.4% of Freehold Royalties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.1% of International Petroleum shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Freehold Royalties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 33.7% of International Petroleum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Freehold Royalties received 468 more outperform votes than International Petroleum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.82% of users gave Freehold Royalties an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave International Petroleum an outperform vote.
Freehold Royalties currently has a consensus target price of C$17.75, indicating a potential upside of 24.30%. International Petroleum has a consensus target price of C$18.25, indicating a potential upside of 3.28%. Given International Petroleum's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Freehold Royalties is more favorable than International Petroleum.
Freehold Royalties has a beta of 2.01, suggesting that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, International Petroleum has a beta of 2.53, suggesting that its share price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 Freehold Royalties' net margin of 20.25%. Freehold Royalties' return on equity of 16.91% beat International Petroleum's return on equity.
In the previous week, International Petroleum had 1 more articles in the media than Freehold Royalties. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for International Petroleum and 3 mentions for Freehold Royalties. International Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Freehold Royalties' score of 0.40 indicating that Freehold Royalties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Freehold Royalties beats International Petroleum on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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