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Ovintiv Inc.
OVV NYSEOvintiv Inc. is a North American oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on developing a multi-basin portfolio of oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas assets in the United States and Canada. The company’s operations center on shale and other unconventional resource plays, with core positions in the Permian, Montney, Anadarko, Bakken, and Uinta basins. Ovintiv also markets its production to a range of customers, including local distribution companies, industrial users, other producers, and energy marketing firms. Its business is organized around U.S. operations, Canadian operations, and market optimization, supporting upstream development and the commercialization of hydrocarbon production across key North American energy markets.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics TTM · through Jun 30, 2026
EPS (Diluted): 3.41
Total Equity: $11.50B
Shares: 269,400,000
Total Debt: $3.81B
Cash: $700.00M
EBITDA: $3.11B
Total Debt: $3.81B
Cash: $700.00M
Revenue: $9.76B
Revenue: $9.76B
Revenue: $9.76B
Total Equity: $11.50B
Tax Rate: -233.3%
Equity: $11.50B
Total Debt: $3.81B
Cash: $700.00M
Current Liabilities: $2.23B
Long-Term Debt: $3.81B
Total Debt: $3.81B
Total Equity: $11.50B
Shares: 269,400,000
Shares: 269,400,000
CapEx: -$2.19B
Shares: 269,400,000
Stock Price: N/A
Net Income: $920.00M
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 6, 2026 3:58pm (4d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $8.7B | $12.5B | $10.9B | $9.2B | $8.9B |
| Cost of Revenue | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gross Profit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Expenses | $7.1B | $8.6B | $8.0B | $7.6B | $7.8B |
| Operating Income | $1.5B | $3.9B | $2.9B | $1.6B | $1.1B |
| Net Income | $1.4B | $3.6B | $2.1B | $1.1B | $1.2B |
| EBITDA | $2.7B | $5.0B | $4.7B | $3.9B | $3.3B |
| EPS | $5.44 | $14.34 | $8.02 | $4.25 | $4.83 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $5.32 | $14.08 | $7.90 | $4.21 | $4.78 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 6, 2026 3:58pm (4d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $195.0M | $5.0M | $3.0M | $42.0M | $35.0M |
| Total Current Assets | $1.6B | $1.7B | $1.7B | $1.4B | $1.5B |
| Total Assets | $14.1B | $15.1B | $20.0B | $19.3B | $20.4B |
| Current Liabilities | $2.7B | $2.8B | $2.8B | $2.7B | $2.8B |
| Long-Term Debt | $4.8B | $3.2B | $5.5B | $4.9B | $4.4B |
| Total Liabilities | $9.0B | $7.4B | $9.6B | $8.9B | $9.2B |
| Total Equity | $5.1B | $7.7B | $10.4B | $10.3B | $11.2B |
| Retained Earnings | -$4.5B | -$1.1B | $697.0M | $1.5B | $2.4B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 6, 2026 3:58pm (4d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $3.1B | $3.9B | $4.2B | $3.7B | $3.7B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$1.5B | -$1.8B | -$2.7B | -$2.3B | -$2.1B |
| Free Cash Flow | $1.6B | $2.0B | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1.5B |
| Acquisitions (net) | $0 | $0 | -$3.2B | $12.0M | $0 |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends Paid | -$122.0M | -$239.0M | -$307.0M | -$316.0M | -$308.0M |
| Stock Buybacks | -$111.0M | -$719.0M | -$426.0M | -$597.0M | -$307.0M |
| Net Change in Cash | $185.0M | -$190.0M | -$2.0M | $39.0M | -$7.0M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Sep 6, 2026 3:58pm (4d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +44.0% | -12.7% | -15.9% | -2.7% |
| Gross Profit Growth | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Income Growth | +153.7% | -25.7% | -44.9% | -28.4% |
| Net Income Growth | +156.9% | -42.7% | -46.0% | +10.4% |
| EBITDA Growth | +83.3% | -5.6% | -17.5% | -14.4% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Sep 6, 2026 4:02pm (4d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-15 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-13 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2025-12-15 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2025-09-15 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2025-06-13 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2025-03-14 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2024-12-13 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2024-09-13 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2024-06-14 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2024-03-14 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2023-12-14 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-14 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2023-06-14 | $0.30 | — | — | — |
| 2023-03-14 | $0.25 | — | — | — |
| 2022-12-14 | $0.25 | — | — | — |
| 2022-09-14 | $0.25 | — | — | — |
| 2022-06-14 | $0.25 | — | — | — |
| 2022-03-14 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2021-12-14 | $0.14 | — | — | — |
| 2021-09-14 | $0.14 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — upside vs downside from this company's own quarters
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Claude Reading
The most important number in this file is the one the bear thesis ignores: Q2 2026 revenue of $3.01B against $2.32B a year earlier, a 29.7% YoY jump that shatters the "revenue is structurally shrinking" narrative the Thesis Evaluation leans on at weight 70/100. The 5-year revenue CAGR of -9.5% is an artifact of the 2022 oil spike ($12.46B) and the 2023 normalization ($10.88B); the last four quarters tell a different story, with TTM revenue at roughly $9.76B versus $9.21B in the prior TTM, a 6% increase. The "mature_earner" classification at 0.73 confidence undersells what the data actually shows: a company whose revenue inflected upward in the most recent two quarters while its TTM ROIC sits at 21.7%, a number that belongs in a growth file, not a decay file. The Valuation Synthesis composite of $104.18 fair value is, frankly, a DCF hallucination. It requires 20+ years of $3.6B operating cash flow at current margins, a terminal value assumption that no rational allocator should underwrite for a hydrocarbon producer, and it directly contradicts the same model's own "high debt risk" flag. I would not put a number above $78 on this stock under any commodity scenario I can construct.
The bull narrative's claim of a "fortress balance sheet and net-cash position" is factually wrong and should be struck from the record. Cash and equivalents are $35 million against $5.20 billion in total debt. The current ratio of 1.0076 means Ovintiv has essentially no liquidity cushion; a single quarter of elevated working capital needs or an unplanned well cost would push it below 1.0. Debt-to-equity of 0.331 is manageable, yes, but "net-cash" is a category error when the cash line is 0.7% of the debt line. The Q1 2026 net loss of -$630 million on $2.53B of revenue (a -24.9% margin) is the number that should keep you up at night, not the 5-year revenue CAGR. That loss almost certainly embeds asset impairments or write-downs that the DCF's smooth cash-flow projections never encounter, and it signals that the carrying values on the balance sheet may be overstated relative to what the market will pay for those barrels in a down-cycle. The 8.4% FCF yield the bulls cite as a "floor" is a floor only if capex stays at $2.15B and oil doesn't drop below $65; strip either assumption and the yield compresses to 5-6%, which is unremarkable for the sector.
Where I part ways with the Thesis Evaluation's -4 score is on the direction of the revenue trend. The model's top bear argument, "revenue is already shrinking and the trend is structural," is contradicted by the two most recent quarterly prints. The model's top bull argument, "8.4% FCF yield is a floor," is directionally right but the magnitude is overstated given the thin cash position and the Q1 impairment. The insider data is genuinely uninformative: the August 2026 transactions are option exercises paired with returns to issuer (RSU vesting mechanics), the 7,753-share sale is routine, and the June awards are standard equity grants. No open-market purchases, no cluster of sales, no signal. The "neutral" tag is correct, and the absence of insider buying at $64.76 after a 35% run from the 52-week low of $35.47 is, if anything, a mild negative read. The ESG rotation bear case is real but generic; it applies to every E&P and doesn't differentiate Ovintiv from its peers, so it shouldn't carry outsized weight in a single-name thesis.
The synthesis verdict of "fair_value" is the right call, but the $104 fair value number attached to it is wrong and should not be cited. At $64.76, 6.8x EV/EBITDA, 19x trailing P/E, and 1.5x book, Ovintiv is priced for a commodity E&P that generates $1.5B in free cash flow with a moderate debt load and a revenue base that is, in the most recent two quarters, growing rather than shrinking. That is not a 60% undervaluation. It is a stock trading at a reasonable multiple on cash flows that are cyclical, exposed to a single commodity price, and supported by a balance sheet with $35 million of cash. The contrarian case for a buy is the revenue inflection plus the FCF yield; the contrarian case against is the Q1 impairment, the thin liquidity, the 20-year DCF assumption, and the structural ESG headwind. Neither side has a 60% edge. The stock is where it should be.
GPT Reading
Grok Reading
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Ovintiv is a pure-play oil and gas E&P whose revenue fell 28 percent from its 2022 peak of $12.46B to $8.91B in 2025, yet free cash flow stayed in a tight $1.42B to $2.04B band across all five years. That FCF stability is the single most important quality signal: the company is self-funding, needs no external capital, and is shrinking its diluted share count at a -0.6 percent CAGR (266.4M to 259.7M shares), meaning per-share value is being concentrated. Earnings integrity is strong: OCF-to-net-income runs at 2.3x, accruals are negative at -9.9 percent of assets, and no Beneish or Altman red flags are triggered beyond a grey-zone Z-score of 1.88. The operating margin, however, has compressed from 30.9 percent in 2022 to 12.7 percent in 2025, a 18-point slide that is partly cyclical but also hints at rising unit costs or a less favorable production mix. Net debt of $4.92B against $280M of liquid cash and $810M of short-term obligations is a real constraint; in a prolonged low-price environment the balance sheet would tighten quickly. Insider activity is essentially neutral: one modest $491K sale, routine option exercises with returns to issuer, and small equity awards. No open-market buys, no distress signals, no aggressive dilution. The business is a competent, cash-producing commodity operator with disciplined capital allocation, not a moat-bearing franchise.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- 10-K segment and production-cost detail: is the OpM decline driven by rising lifting costs, a shift to heavier/lower-margin barrels, or purely price?
- Convertible or term-loan maturity schedule: confirm the $810M short-term debt is refinanced or maturing within 12 months and at what spread.
- Customer and counterparty concentration: does a small number of midstream or marketing counterparties create single-point-of-failure risk?
- Reserve replacement ratio and proved-developed vs. proved-undeveloped split: is the production base stable or depleting?
- Board and management compensation structure: are incentives tied to FCF and per-share metrics or to volume/price targets that could encourage over-leverage?
At $64.76, Ovintiv sits 14% above its EPV floor of $56.75, which is a normal and appropriate premium for a quality North American operator with Permian and Montney assets. The composite fair value of $100.10 and the DCF of $121.78 are almost certainly inflated for a commodity E&P; assuming 20+ years of current oil and gas margins is heroic, and I would haircut the DCF by at least 30-40% to reflect price cyclicality and long-run demand uncertainty. A more defensible fair value, blending a discounted DCF (~$80-90) with the EPV anchor and a reasonable operator premium, lands around $78-85. That puts the stock roughly 18-25% below a skeptical deserved value. The 61% headline upside is overstated, but the direction is right: the market is not pricing in perfection, and the ~6x EBITDA multiple with high earnings quality (score 2, no haircut) and zero dilution is reasonable-to-attractive for a cash-generative E&P. This is not a dislocation; it is a modest discount that rewards patience rather than panic.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Latest 10-Q: confirm net debt trajectory and whether the 'fortress balance sheet' claim holds as capex ramps in the Montney
- Management guidance on 2025-2026 production growth and per-barrel costs to stress-test the DCF margin assumptions
- Any one-time gains or impairments in the last two quarters that could flatter EBITDA and make the 6x multiple look cheaper than it is
- Share count trend over trailing 4 quarters to confirm the no-dilution claim and rule out quiet buyback pauses
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When we made this prediction on Jun 9, 2026, OVV was $56.04. We expect it to be $51.37 by Dec 2026, and we consider it great value under $42.00. This is an early model (v0.3.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Jun 9, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.