FRU vs. MEG, SCR, CPG, WCP, PSK, ERF, POU, BTE, PEY, and ATH
Should you be buying Freehold Royalties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freehold Royalties include MEG Energy (MEG), Strathcona Resources (SCR), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Whitecap Resources (WCP), PrairieSky Royalty (PSK), Enerplus (ERF), Paramount Resources (POU), Baytex Energy (BTE), Peyto Exploration & Development (PEY), and Athabasca Oil (ATH). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Freehold Royalties (TSE:FRU) and MEG Energy (TSE:MEG) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Freehold Royalties has a beta of 2, indicating that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MEG Energy has a beta of 3.12, indicating that its stock price is 212% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MEG Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Freehold Royalties. MEG Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freehold Royalties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
28.6% of Freehold Royalties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.4% of MEG Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Freehold Royalties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of MEG Energy shares are owned 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.
Freehold Royalties has a net margin of 43.19% compared to MEG Energy's net margin of 10.58%. Freehold Royalties' return on equity of 14.40% beat MEG Energy's return on equity.
Freehold Royalties currently has a consensus price target of C$17.55, indicating a potential upside of 21.29%. MEG Energy has a consensus price target of C$32.67, indicating a potential upside of 10.40%. Given Freehold Royalties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Freehold Royalties is more favorable than MEG Energy.
In the previous week, Freehold Royalties and Freehold Royalties both had 4 articles in the media. Freehold Royalties' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat MEG Energy's score of 0.66 indicating that Freehold Royalties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Freehold Royalties received 151 more outperform votes than MEG Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.78% of users gave Freehold Royalties an outperform vote while only 56.87% of users gave MEG Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Freehold Royalties beats MEG Energy on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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