IPO vs. POU, NVA, ATH, BIR, AAV, BTE, FRU, IPCO, HWX, and VET
Should you be buying InPlay Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InPlay Oil include Paramount Resources (POU), NuVista Energy (NVA), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Birchcliff Energy (BIR), Advantage Energy (AAV), Baytex Energy (BTE), Freehold Royalties (FRU), International Petroleum (IPCO), Headwater Exploration (HWX), and Vermilion Energy (VET). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
InPlay Oil vs. Its Competitors
InPlay Oil (TSE:IPO) and Paramount Resources (TSE:POU) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
InPlay Oil pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Paramount Resources pays an annual dividend of C$1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. InPlay Oil pays out 85.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Paramount Resources pays out 73.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Paramount Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
InPlay Oil currently has a consensus target price of C$6.50, indicating a potential downside of 29.73%. Paramount Resources has a consensus target price of C$23.67, indicating a potential upside of 10.03%. Given Paramount Resources' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Paramount Resources is more favorable than InPlay Oil.
Paramount Resources has higher revenue and earnings than InPlay Oil. Paramount Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InPlay Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Paramount Resources had 3 more articles in the media than InPlay Oil. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Paramount Resources and 5 mentions for InPlay Oil. Paramount Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat InPlay Oil's score of 0.17 indicating that Paramount Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
1.5% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.1% of Paramount Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.3% of InPlay Oil shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.4% of Paramount Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
InPlay Oil has a beta of 2.37, meaning that its stock price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Resources has a beta of 3.04, meaning that its stock price is 204% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Paramount Resources has a net margin of 18.92% compared to InPlay Oil's net margin of 12.95%. Paramount Resources' return on equity of 10.06% beat InPlay Oil's return on equity.
Summary
Paramount Resources beats InPlay Oil on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (TSE:IPO) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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