CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED vs PERMIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION, two Oil & Gas stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CNQ and PR diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), CNQ reads -1.7% and PR reads +7.2%; on return on equity, CNQ reads 24.4% and PR reads 10.3%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CNQ price has a different growth bar priced in than PR (-1.7% implied for CNQ vs +7.2% 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 | CNQ | PR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49.65 | $23.03 |
| Market cap | $103.8B | $19.3B |
| Sector | Oil & Gas | Oil & Gas |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -1.7% | +7.2% |
| P/E | 13.1 | 14.9 |
| P/B | 3.18 | 1.61 |
| P/S | 3.64 | 3.36 |
| EV/EBITDA | 16.8 | 10.8 |
| Revenue growth | +8.4% | +13.7% |
| Operating margin | — | 50.0% |
| Net margin | 27.9% | 21.5% |
| Return on equity | 24.4% | 10.3% |
| Return on assets | 11.8% | 6.7% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 10.7% |
| FCF yield | 10.7% | 5.7% |
| Dividend yield | — | 2.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.37 | 0.25 |
| Current ratio | 0.95 | 0.62 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.70 | 2.37 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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