ANTERO RESOURCES CORPORATION vs PERMIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION, two Oil & Gas stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where AR and PR diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), AR reads -2.1% and PR reads +6.5%; on operating margin, AR reads 24.1% and PR reads 50.0%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's AR price has a different growth bar priced in than PR (-2.1% implied for AR vs +6.5% for PR); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What PR'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 | AR | PR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $38.45 | $23.79 |
| Market cap | $11.9B | $19.9B |
| Sector | Oil & Gas | Oil & Gas |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -2.1% | +6.5% |
| P/E | 11.0 | 15.4 |
| P/B | 1.44 | 1.66 |
| P/S | 1.97 | 3.47 |
| EV/EBITDA | 6.3 | 11.1 |
| Revenue growth | +21.9% | +13.7% |
| Operating margin | 24.1% | 50.0% |
| Net margin | 18.5% | 21.5% |
| Return on equity | 13.5% | 10.3% |
| Return on assets | 7.4% | 6.7% |
| Return on invested capital | 10.8% | 10.7% |
| FCF yield | 16.6% | 20.0% |
| Dividend yield | — | 2.5% |
| Debt / equity | 0.31 | 0.25 |
| Current ratio | 0.40 | 0.62 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.66 | 2.43 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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