Which is more profitable, Canadian Natural Resources or Imperial Oil?

Canadian Natural Resources keeps more of every sale as profit.

Which grows faster, Canadian Natural Resources or Imperial Oil?

Canadian Natural Resources grew its sales faster in recent years.

Which is cheaper, Canadian Natural Resources or Imperial Oil?

Canadian Natural Resources costs less for each unit of yearly profit (lower P/E).

Which has less debt, Canadian Natural Resources or Imperial Oil?

Imperial Oil would need fewer years of earnings to pay off its debt.

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Canadian Natural Resources vs Imperial Oil stock

Side by side in plain words: who keeps more of its sales, grows faster, costs less and owes less.

In one sentence

Canadian Natural Resources is more profitable, grows faster and is cheaper for its profits. Imperial Oil has less debt.

Side by side

	Canadian Natural Resources	Imperial Oil
	$101 billion	$60.7 billion
	24.5%	7.2%
	−3.7%	−7.6%
	13.4×	26.5×
	0.7 years	0.5 years
	19.0%	8.9%
	3.4%	1.6%

Open Canadian Natural Resources Open Imperial Oil

How we compare

Four contests with the same rules as each stock page: profit kept from sales (higher wins), yearly sales growth across the last reports, up to five years (higher wins), price per unit of yearly profit (lower P/E wins; a company without profit loses) and debt in years of earnings (lower wins). A winner is only named when both companies have the number.

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