TOU vs. OVV, WCP, PPL, VII, SDE, FRU, TVE, PEY, HWX, and IPCO
Should you be buying Tourmaline Oil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tourmaline Oil include Ovintiv (OVV), Whitecap Resources (WCP), Pembina Pipeline (PPL), Seven Generations Energy (VII), Spartan Delta (SDE), Freehold Royalties (FRU), Tamarack Valley Energy (TVE), Peyto Exploration & Development (PEY), Headwater Exploration (HWX), and International Petroleum (IPCO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Tourmaline Oil vs.
Ovintiv (TSE:OVV) and Tourmaline Oil (TSE:TOU) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Tourmaline Oil has a net margin of 60.33% compared to Ovintiv's net margin of 32.46%. Ovintiv's return on equity of 69.41% beat Tourmaline Oil's return on equity.
Ovintiv presently has a consensus price target of C$55.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.57%. Tourmaline Oil has a consensus price target of C$84.22, suggesting a potential upside of 40.37%. Given Tourmaline Oil's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Tourmaline Oil is more favorable than Ovintiv.
In the previous week, Tourmaline Oil had 4 more articles in the media than Ovintiv. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Tourmaline Oil and 1 mentions for Ovintiv. Tourmaline Oil's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Ovintiv's score of 0.30 indicating that Tourmaline Oil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ovintiv has a beta of 3.57, meaning that its stock price is 257% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tourmaline Oil has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tourmaline Oil received 751 more outperform votes than Ovintiv when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.39% of users gave Tourmaline Oil an outperform vote while only 59.32% of users gave Ovintiv an outperform vote.
85.2% of Ovintiv shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.6% of Tourmaline Oil shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Ovintiv shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Tourmaline Oil shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ovintiv has higher revenue and earnings than Tourmaline Oil. Ovintiv is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tourmaline Oil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ovintiv pays an annual dividend of C$1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Tourmaline Oil pays an annual dividend of C$1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Ovintiv pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tourmaline Oil pays out 8.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Ovintiv is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Tourmaline Oil beats Ovintiv on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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