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TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE · Energy · CIK 0001017413
$53.92
-0.59% · live
Updated
$112.24B market value
From CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES Ltd's FY2025 40-F, filed Mar 26, 2026 · read the filing
CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES drills for oil and natural gas. It took in $27.62B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 28 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and debt, with growth worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES Ltd's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit
$4.35B → $7.71B
Profit margin
17.1% → 27.9%
Earnings per share
$2.07 → $3.70
Cash
$93.3M → $479.6M
Measured against FY2024, from the 40-F filed Mar 26, 2026
Improved: +77.2%
$4.35B to $7.71BCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
CNQ fell 0.59% on the latest quote. The average Energy company tracked here moved −1.02%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is in line with its sector and in line with the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 11% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 3 years it grew by about 126% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 28 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $7.71B last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 8.7% last year.
No. At its current cash flow it could clear its debt in about 1.0 years. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.93 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 45 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 32% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 11 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $7.71B and generated $10.76B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202540-F · Mar 26, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202440-F · Mar 26, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202340-F · Mar 26, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202240-F · Mar 23, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202140-F · Mar 23, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $27.62B | $25.41B | $25.63B | $30.14B | $21.42B | +8.7% |
| Selling, general and administrative | $438.2M | $358.4M | $322.1M | $295.7M | $260.8M | +22.3% |
| Interest expense | $740.3M | $479.6M | $492.4M | $477.4M | $529.4M | +54.4% |
| Income before tax | $9.44B | $5.74B | $7.24B | $9.76B | $7.06B | +64.3% |
| Net income | $7.71B | $4.35B | $5.87B | $7.79B | $5.46B | +77.2% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 27.9% | 17.1% | 22.9% | 25.9% | 25.5% | +10.8 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $3.70 | $2.07 | $5.47 | $7.07 | $4.67 | +79.0% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Report filed on Form 6-K
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from CNQ's 40-F for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Mar 26, 2026), reported under the IFRS taxonomy. Reported in CAD and shown here in USD, the currency CNQ trades in, converted at today's rate of 0.7126. The filing itself is in CAD. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.7 | 8/8 | 40-F, filed Mar 26, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 3/8 | 40-F, filed Mar 26, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 6/8 | 40-F, filed Mar 20, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 10.0 | 8/8 | 40-F, filed Mar 23, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 10.0 | 7/8 | 40-F, filed Mar 23, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 3.3 | 4/8 | 40-F, filed Mar 24, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
8 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
3.16
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +10.8 pts
17.1% to 27.9%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +79.0%
$2.07 to $3.70Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +413.7%
$93.3M to $479.6MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +8.7%
$25.41B to $27.62BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: -1.0%
2.10B to 2.08BNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: +10.0%
$3.16B to $3.47BNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 8% and 13%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 26 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 26 analysts publishing on this company, 1 say strong buy, 11 say buy, 12 say hold and 2 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 5.6% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 14.6x — investors pay $14.6 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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Revenue +8.7% · Profit margin +10.8 pts · Profit +77.2% — against FY2024
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