ConocoPhillips vs IMPERIAL OIL LIMITED, two Oil & Gas Refining stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where COP and IMO diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), COP reads -4.7% and IMO reads +9.8%; on debt / equity, COP reads 0.36 and IMO reads 0.14. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's COP price has a different growth bar priced in than IMO (-4.7% implied for COP vs +9.8% for IMO); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | COP | IMO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $134.12 | $123.15 |
| Market cap | $162.9B | $59.7B |
| Sector | Oil & Gas Refining | Oil & Gas Refining |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -4.7% | +9.8% |
| P/E | 17.7 | 19.6 |
| P/B | 2.49 | 3.31 |
| P/S | 2.57 | 1.57 |
| EV/EBITDA | 15.2 | 31.5 |
| Revenue growth | +10.4% | +5.7% |
| Net margin | 14.7% | 8.0% |
| Return on equity | 14.2% | 16.9% |
| Return on assets | 7.5% | 8.7% |
| FCF yield | 13.5% | 6.2% |
| Dividend yield | 2.4% | 1.7% |
| Debt / equity | 0.36 | 0.14 |
| Current ratio | 1.54 | 1.38 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.06 | 3.96 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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