CNQ vs. SHEL, TTE, EOG, PXD, OXY, E, CVE, FANG, DVN, and CTRA
Should you be buying Canadian Natural Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Natural Resources include Shell (SHEL), TotalEnergies (TTE), EOG Resources (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), ENI (E), Cenovus Energy (CVE), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), and Coterra Energy (CTRA). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
Shell (NYSE:SHEL) and Canadian Natural Resources (NYSE:CNQ) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Canadian Natural Resources has a net margin of 18.21% compared to Canadian Natural Resources' net margin of 5.83%. Shell's return on equity of 20.58% beat Canadian Natural Resources' return on equity.
28.6% of Shell shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.0% of Canadian Natural Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Shell shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Canadian Natural Resources shares are owned by company 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.
Shell pays an annual dividend of $2.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Canadian Natural Resources pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Shell pays out 50.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian Natural Resources pays out 60.6% 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. Shell has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Canadian Natural Resources has raised its dividend for 23 consecutive years. Canadian Natural Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Shell has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Natural Resources has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Shell had 22 more articles in the media than Canadian Natural Resources. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Shell and 12 mentions for Canadian Natural Resources. Shell's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Canadian Natural Resources' score of 0.27 indicating that Canadian Natural Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Canadian Natural Resources received 317 more outperform votes than Shell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.22% of users gave Canadian Natural Resources an outperform vote while only 64.57% of users gave Shell an outperform vote.
Shell has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Natural Resources. Shell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Natural Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shell presently has a consensus target price of $79.67, suggesting a potential upside of 9.47%. Canadian Natural Resources has a consensus target price of $94.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.36%. Given Shell's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Canadian Natural Resources is more favorable than Shell.
Summary
Canadian Natural Resources beats Shell on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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