4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Encana
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, Canadian oil and gas giant Encana (NYS: ECA) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Encana's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Encana facts
Headquarters (Founded) | Calgary, Canada (1971) |
Market Cap | $17.6 billion |
Industry | Oil and gas exploration and production |
Trailing-12-MonthRevenue | $7.5 billion |
Management | President/CEO Randall Eresman CFO Sherri Brillon |
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) | 13.6% |
Cash/Debt | $870 million / $8.5 billion |
Dividend Yield | 3.4% |
Competitors | Apache (NYS: APA) Chesapeake Energy (NYS: CHK) Talisman Energy (NYS: TLM) |
Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 98% of the 1,075 members who have rated Encana believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include All-Star Chemdawg, who is ranked in the top 5% of our community, and Snagon.
A few months ago, Chemdawg tapped Encana as a natural selection: "[W]hen the world wakes up to its enormous role in the future you would be wise to be invested in natural gas. [T]his is one of the best in the business ... get in before the world does."
Currenctly, Encana even sports a solid dividend yield of 3.4%. That's higher than that of listed competitors like Apache (0.6%), Chesapeake (1.1%), and Talisman (1.9%).
CAPS member Snagon expands on the Encana outperform argument:
Natural gas is going to be huge, prices are going to be substantially higher in the coming years and this company is a safe way to bet on a pure natural gas play. It pays a very nice dividend while you wait for higher natural gas prices and much higher trading range!
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