APA CORPORATION vs CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED, two Oil & Gas stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where APA and CNQ diverge most: on revenue growth, APA reads -12.0% and CNQ reads +8.4%; on ev/ebitda, APA reads 3.3 and CNQ reads 16.8. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What APA's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | APA | CNQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $45.87 | $49.65 |
| Market cap | $16.2B | $103.8B |
| Sector | Oil & Gas | Oil & Gas |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | -1.7% |
| P/E | 9.7 | 13.1 |
| P/B | 2.04 | 3.18 |
| P/S | 1.74 | 3.64 |
| EV/EBITDA | 3.3 | 16.8 |
| Revenue growth | -12.0% | +8.4% |
| Operating margin | 53.3% | — |
| Net margin | 17.2% | 27.9% |
| Return on equity | 20.2% | 24.4% |
| Return on assets | 8.9% | 11.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 25.8% | — |
| FCF yield | 13.0% | 10.7% |
| Dividend yield | 2.2% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.47 | 0.37 |
| Current ratio | 0.95 | 0.95 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.77 | 2.70 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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