PKI vs. CPG, SCR, PSK, WCP, KEY, ERF, MEG, NXE, ALA, and POU
Should you be buying Parkland stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parkland include Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Strathcona Resources (SCR), PrairieSky Royalty (PSK), Whitecap Resources (WCP), Keyera (KEY), Enerplus (ERF), MEG Energy (MEG), NexGen Energy (NXE), AltaGas (ALA), and Paramount Resources (POU). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Crescent Point Energy (TSE:CPG) and Parkland (TSE:PKI) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Crescent Point Energy has a beta of 2.84, suggesting that its stock price is 184% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Parkland has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Crescent Point Energy presently has a consensus target price of C$14.80, suggesting a potential upside of 25.74%. Parkland has a consensus target price of C$51.54, suggesting a potential upside of 30.68%. Given Crescent Point Energy's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Parkland is more favorable than Crescent Point Energy.
Crescent Point Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Parkland. Crescent Point Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parkland, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Crescent Point Energy had 12 more articles in the media than Parkland. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Crescent Point Energy and 1 mentions for Parkland. Crescent Point Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Parkland's score of 0.14 indicating that Parkland is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crescent Point Energy received 492 more outperform votes than Parkland when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.58% of users gave Crescent Point Energy an outperform vote while only 61.86% of users gave Parkland an outperform vote.
Crescent Point Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Parkland pays an annual dividend of C$1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Crescent Point Energy pays out 31.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Parkland pays out 64.5% 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. Crescent Point Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Crescent Point Energy has a net margin of 17.88% compared to Crescent Point Energy's net margin of 1.25%. Crescent Point Energy's return on equity of 12.52% beat Parkland's return on equity.
47.5% of Crescent Point Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.5% of Parkland shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Crescent Point Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of Parkland shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Crescent Point Energy beats Parkland on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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