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Cenovus Energy (CVE · TSX / NYSE)

Integrated — HQ Canada. Oil & gas valuation, proved reserves, production, break-even, net-asset-value and jurisdiction-risk screen.
Category IntegratedRegion N. AmericaCEO Jon McKenzie (2023)Jurisdiction risk Low (12)

Overview

Premier SAGD oil sands (Foster Creek, Christina Lake), Lloydminster heavy oil + upgrader, and Sunrise (100% post-2022 swap); downstream refining in Canada + US (Lima, Toledo, Superior, Wood River/Borger); offshore Asia Pacific (Liwan gas China, Indonesia); 2025 acquired MEG Energy adding Christina Lake-adjacent SAGD scale.

Strong balance sheet, a growing base dividend plus variable returns/buybacks, and a downstream reliability turnaround; MEG integration 2025 under CEO Jon McKenzie. Flags: Canada concentration, US refining reliability, heavy-oil (WCS) differentials and egress.

Valuation snapshot (FY2025)

Market cap
$54.9bn
Enterprise value
$61.0bn
EV / EBITDA
8.7x
P / E
19.1x
FCF yield
5.3%
Dividend yield
2.0%
ROACE
12%
Debt / equity
49%
Net debt / EBITDA
0.9x
EV / reserves
$10.00/boe
EV / flowing
$73k/boe/d
Free cash flow
$2.9bn

Its EV/EBITDA of 8.7x is above the 5.9x median across the 142-company universe, the free-cash-flow yield of 5.3% is lower than the 6.5% median, and at $10.00/boe of proved reserves it is cheaper than the $13.51/boe median.

On a balanced screen across the universe, Cenovus Energy scores 49/100, strongest on safety (64/100). Sub-scores: value 36, quality 59, growth 26, risk 36 (higher = riskier).

Reserves & production

Cenovus Energy holds approximately 6.1 billion boe of proved (1P) reserves with FY2025 production of about 834 thousand boe/d (80% liquids), a reserve life of roughly 20.0 years. Break-even: ~$45/bbl (WTI breakeven) — Low-cost oil sands (Foster Creek/Christina Lake) plus downstream; competitive breakeven, improving refining reliability.

Net asset value (public-source)

For Cenovus Energy, no SEC standardized measure is disclosed (non-US filer or listed NOC), so a public-source proved-NAV floor is not computable from US filings. See the interactive screener's NAV tab for peers where an SEC figure exists.

Jurisdiction risk · production-weighted country risk

12 /100
Low jurisdiction risk
Production-weighted average of the country scores below (0 = safest, 100 = riskiest).
Country / regionProd. shareCountry riskKey jurisdiction risk
Canada85%8Stable; pipeline egress constraints, oil-sands emissions policy.
United States10%23Stable, deep; federal-lands leasing and permitting policy swings.
Asia Pacific5%50diversified/unspecified exposure — universe-average proxy
How this is scored. Each country's risk (0–100) is anchored to two named public indices — the OECD Country Risk Classification (0–7 official export-credit country risk) and the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (Political Stability & Absence of Violence percentile) — blended 55/45 and rescaled to 0–100. A company's jurisdiction risk is the production-weighted average across the countries where it operates. This is a pure country measure, kept separate from company & financial risk (leverage, governance). Source: OECD Country Risk Classification (CRC) as of 24 July 2025, sourced via the German Federal Export Credit Guarantees (exportkreditgarantien.de) which applies the OECD consensus country risk category directly (values 0-7; 0 = lowest risk). High-income OECD members are not individually rated by the OECD and are set to crc=0 per the model spec (US, UK, Norway, Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ, and most of Europe incl. OECD members Israel, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Lithuania, Ireland). 'ps' = World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) 'Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism' percentile rank, latest available (2023 vintage), 0-100 with higher = more stable; ps values are best sourced estimates rounded to the WGI percentile scale. Yemen not on OECD list ('./.') so crc estimated at 7. Iraq-Kurdistan and Falklands are non-standard model rows using judgment, not official OECD entries..

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Key assets & projects

AssetLocationTypeNotes
Foster CreekCanadaOil sands (SAGD)Flagship low-cost thermal, long life
Christina LakeCanadaOil sands (SAGD)Top-tier low-cost SAGD
MEG Energy (Christina Lake area)CanadaOil sands (SAGD)Acquired 2025, adjacent SAGD scale
Lloydminster (Kirby/upgrader)CanadaHeavy oil + upgradingHeavy oil + Lloyd upgrader/asphalt
SunriseCanadaOil sands (SAGD)100%-owned after 2022 swap
US Refining (Lima, Toledo, Wood River/Borger)United StatesDownstreamUS refining capacity incl JV legacy
Canadian Refining (Superior, Lloyd)Canada/USDownstreamSuperior (Wisconsin) + Lloyd complex
Asia Pacific offshoreChina / IndonesiaOffshore oil/gasLiwan gas (China), MDA/MBH (Indonesia)

Five-year trend (FY2021–FY2025)

Metric20212022202320242025
Production (mboe/d)791779797816834
Proved reserves (bnboe)5.906.006.106.306.10
Revenue ($bn)46.067.052.053.036.3
EBITDA ($bn)8.513.510.511.57.0
Net income ($bn)0.66.54.13.42.9
Free cash flow ($bn)2.96.04.04.22.9

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Sources

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