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SPGYF (Whitecap Resources) Financial Strength : 6 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Whitecap Resources Financial Strength?

Whitecap Resources has the Financial Strength Rank of 6.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Whitecap Resources's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 9.86. Whitecap Resources's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 0.32. As of today, Whitecap Resources's Altman Z-Score is 1.80.


Competitive Comparison of Whitecap Resources's Financial Strength

For the Oil & Gas E&P subindustry, Whitecap Resources's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Whitecap Resources's Financial Strength Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Whitecap Resources's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Whitecap Resources's Financial Strength falls into.



Whitecap Resources Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

Whitecap Resources's Interest Expense for the months ended in Sep. 2024 was $-17 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Sep. 2024 was $168 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $886 Mil.

Whitecap Resources's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Sep. 2024 )
=-1*168.168/-17.053
=9.86

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Whitecap Resources's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Sep. 2024 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(11 + 885.575) / 2820.612
=0.32

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Whitecap Resources has a Z-score of 1.80, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of 1.8 is in distress zone. This implies bankruptcy possibility in the next two years.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Whitecap Resources  (OTCPK:SPGYF) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Whitecap Resources has the Financial Strength Rank of 6.


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Whitecap Resources Business Description

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Address
3800, 525 - 8th Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, CAN, T2P 1G1
Whitecap Resources Inc is engaged in the business of acquiring, developing, and holding interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and assets. The company acquires assets with discovered petroleum initially in place and low current recovery factors. Light oil is the primary byproduct of Whitecap's Canadian assets. To extract petroleum products from its resources, the company uses horizontal drilling, in addition to multistage fracturing technology. Crude oil is the revenue generator out of the basket of energy products sold.

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