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Imperial Oil (IMO · TSX / NYSE American)

Integrated — HQ Canada. Oil & gas valuation, proved reserves, production, break-even, net-asset-value and jurisdiction-risk screen.
Category IntegratedRegion N. AmericaCEO John Whelan (2025)Jurisdiction risk Low (8)

Overview

Integrated Canadian major and ExxonMobil affiliate: flagship Kearl oil sands mine (operated, ~71%), Cold Lake in-situ, and ~25% non-operated Syncrude; three refineries (Strathcona, Sarnia, Nanticoke) plus Esso/Mobil retail; leverages shared ExxonMobil technology.

Fortress balance sheet with near-zero net leverage and sector-leading shareholder returns via a growing dividend and large buybacks/SIBs; ExxonMobil holds ~69.6%. Flags: very limited free float, Canadian oil sands concentration, carbon/emissions policy.

Valuation snapshot (FY2025)

Market cap
$54.2bn
Enterprise value
$56.5bn
EV / EBITDA
11.0x
P / E
22.7x
FCF yield
6.5%
Dividend yield
2.1%
ROACE
17%
Debt / equity
18%
Net debt / EBITDA
0.4x
EV / reserves
$27.75/boe
EV / flowing
$129k/boe/d
Free cash flow
$3.5bn

Its EV/EBITDA of 11.0x is above the 5.9x median across the 142-company universe, the free-cash-flow yield of 6.5% is lower than the 6.5% median, and at $27.75/boe of proved reserves it is richer than the $13.51/boe median.

On a balanced screen across the universe, Imperial Oil scores 52/100, strongest on safety (83/100). Sub-scores: value 27, quality 63, growth 32, risk 17 (higher = riskier).

Reserves & production

Imperial Oil holds approximately 2.04 billion boe of proved (1P) reserves with FY2025 production of about 438 thousand boe/d (97% liquids), a reserve life of roughly 12.7 years. Break-even: ~$40/bbl (WTI breakeven) — Long-life oil sands (Kearl, Cold Lake) plus integrated refining; strong downstream returns give a competitive corporate breakeven.

Net asset value (public-source)

For Imperial Oil, 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

8 /100
Low jurisdiction risk
Production-weighted average of the country scores below (0 = safest, 100 = riskiest).
Country / regionProd. shareCountry riskKey jurisdiction risk
Canada100%8Stable; pipeline egress constraints, oil-sands emissions policy.
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
KearlCanadaOil sands miningOperated (~71%); flagship mine, boosting output/reliability
Cold LakeCanadaOil sands (in-situ)Cyclic steam + Grand Rapids/Leming SAGD expansion
SyncrudeCanadaOil sands mining~25% stake (Suncor-operated)
Strathcona refinery + Renewable DieselCanadaDownstreamRefinery + Canada's largest renewable diesel facility
Sarnia & Nanticoke refineriesCanadaDownstreamOntario refining
Esso / Mobil retailCanadaMarketingFuels retail network
Grand Rapids (Cold Lake)CanadaOil sands (SAGD)New in-situ technology project
Chemicals (Sarnia)CanadaPetrochemicalsSmall chemical operations

Five-year trend (FY2021–FY2025)

Metric20212022202320242025
Production (mboe/d)428402424447438
Proved reserves (bnboe)2.802.902.902.902.04
Revenue ($bn)29.044.038.037.034.2
EBITDA ($bn)4.59.57.57.05.1
Net income ($bn)1.85.73.63.52.4
Free cash flow ($bn)2.55.53.03.33.5

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Sources

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