Whitecap Resources Stock Operating Margin

WCP Stock  CAD 10.23  0.05  0.49%   
Whitecap Resources fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Whitecap Resources' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Whitecap Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Whitecap Resources' intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Whitecap Resources stock.
Last ReportedProjected for Next Year
Operating Profit Margin 0.60  0.63 
  
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Whitecap Resources Company Operating Margin Analysis

Whitecap Resources' Operating Margin shows how much operating income a company makes on each dollar of sales. It is one of the profitability indicators which helps analysts to understand whether the firm is successful or not making money from everyday operations.

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Current Whitecap Resources Operating Margin

    
  0.48 %  
Most of Whitecap Resources' fundamental indicators, such as Operating Margin, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Whitecap Resources is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.

Whitecap Operating Margin Driver Correlations

Understanding the fundamental principles of building solid financial models for Whitecap Resources is extremely important. It helps to project a fair market value of Whitecap Stock properly, considering its historical fundamentals such as Operating Margin. Since Whitecap Resources' main accounts across its financial reports are all linked and dependent on each other, it is essential to analyze all possible correlations between related accounts. However, instead of reviewing all of Whitecap Resources' historical financial statements, investors can examine the correlated drivers to determine its overall health. This can be effectively done using a conventional correlation matrix of Whitecap Resources' interrelated accounts and indicators.
A good Operating Margin is required for a company to be able to pay for its fixed costs or payout its debt, which implies that the higher the margin, the better. This ratio is most effective in evaluating the earning potential of a company over time when comparing it against a firm's competitors.
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Whitecap Pretax Profit Margin

Pretax Profit Margin

0.36

At this time, Whitecap Resources' Pretax Profit Margin is very stable compared to the past year.
Based on the recorded statements, Whitecap Resources has an Operating Margin of 0.4787%. This is 93.3% lower than that of the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels sector and 98.19% lower than that of the Energy industry. The operating margin for all Canada stocks is 108.69% lower than that of the firm.

Whitecap Operating Margin Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Whitecap Resources' direct or indirect competition against its Operating Margin to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Whitecap Resources could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Whitecap Resources by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Whitecap Resources is currently under evaluation in operating margin category among its peers.

Whitecap Fundamentals

About Whitecap Resources Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Whitecap Resources's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Whitecap Resources using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Whitecap Resources based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Pair Trading with Whitecap Resources

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Whitecap Resources position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Whitecap Resources will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving together with Whitecap Stock

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Whitecap Resources could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Whitecap Resources when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Whitecap Resources - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Whitecap Resources to buy it.
The correlation of Whitecap Resources is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Whitecap Resources moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Whitecap Resources moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Whitecap Resources can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
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Other Information on Investing in Whitecap Stock

Whitecap Resources financial ratios help investors to determine whether Whitecap Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Whitecap with respect to the benefits of owning Whitecap Resources security.