Whitecap Resources Ownership

WCP Stock  CAD 9.33  0.02  0.21%   
Whitecap Resources retains a total of 587.5 Million outstanding shares. Roughly 75.92 (%) of Whitecap Resources outstanding shares are held by general public with 0.86 % owned by insiders and only 23.21 percent by institutional investors. Please note that no matter how many assets the company shows, if the real value of the company is less than the current market value, you may not be able to make money on it.
 
Shares in Circulation  
First Issued
2002-03-31
Previous Quarter
602.1 M
Current Value
599.2 M
Avarage Shares Outstanding
228 M
Quarterly Volatility
230.8 M
 
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Some institutional investors establish a significant position in stocks such as Whitecap Resources in order to find ways to drive up its value. Retail investors, on the other hand, need to know that institutional holders can own millions of shares of Whitecap Resources, and when they decide to sell, the stock will often sell-off, which may instantly impact shareholders' value. So, traders who get in early or near the beginning of the institutional investor's buying cycle could potentially generate profits.
  
Check out Your Current Watchlist to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Whitecap Resources. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in board of governors.

Whitecap Stock Ownership Analysis

About 23.0% of the company outstanding shares are owned by institutional investors. The company has Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 0.95. Historically many companies with similar price-to-book (P/B) ratio do better than the market in the long run. Whitecap Resources last dividend was issued on the 31st of March 2025. The entity had 1:10 split on the 18th of October 2010. Whitecap Resources Inc., oil and gas company, acquires and develops petroleum and natural gas properties in Canada. As of February 14, 2022, it had a total proved plus probable reserves of 701,829 thousand barrels of oil equivalent. WHITECAP RESOURCES operates under Oil Gas EP classification in Canada and is traded on Toronto Stock Exchange. It employs 453 people. For more information please call Grant Fagerheim at 403-266-0767 or visit https://www.wcap.ca.

Whitecap Resources Outstanding Bonds

Whitecap Resources issues bonds to finance its operations. Corporate bonds make up one of the largest components of the U.S. bond market, which is considered the world's largest securities market. Whitecap Resources uses the proceeds from bond sales for a wide variety of purposes, including financing ongoing mergers and acquisitions, buying new equipment, investing in research and development, buying back their own stock, paying dividends to shareholders, and even refinancing existing debt. Most Whitecap bonds can be classified according to their maturity, which is the date when Whitecap Resources has to pay back the principal to investors. Maturities can be short-term, medium-term, or long-term (more than ten years). Longer-term bonds usually offer higher interest rates but may entail additional risks.

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.

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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.