5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Petro-Canada

Based on the aggregated intelligence of 120,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, Petro-Canada (NYSE: PCZ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking. Our data has shown that five-star stocks outperform the market by a significant margin; conversely, one-star stocks have woefully lagged the market average.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Petro-Canada's business, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Petro-Canada facts

Headquarters (founded)	Calgary, Canada (1969)
Market Cap	$11.23 billion
Industry	Integrated Oil & Gas
TTM Revenue	$26.63 billion
Management	CEO Ronald Brenneman (since 2000) CFO Ernest Roberts (since 2000)
Return on Equity (average last three years)	25.2%
Dividend Yield	2.8%
Competitors	Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU), Imperial Oil (AMEX: IMO)
CAPS members bullish on PCZ also bullish on	Transocean (NYSE: RIG), Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK)
CAPS members bearish on PCZ also bearish on	Valero Energy (NYSE: VLO), Dell (Nasdaq: DELL)

Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over on CAPS, fully 652 of the 665 members who have rated Petro-Canada -- some 98% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include iantalbot and dustydiamond.

Last month, iantalbot touched on Petro-Canada's tasty yield (which has gone down a few points since): "There is a limited amt of oil and emerging market demand alone is going to increase demand. P/E at all time low. Solid, conservative Canadian oil company with a 3+% yield currently."

In a pitch from earlier this month, dustydiamond agrees with that line of thinking, writing:

Energy demand should increase significantly once this recession abates and capital spending accelerates. The BRIC economies also have consolidated and will heavily influence crude demand in their next growth cycle. Once crude prices get closer to $100 per barrel, the oil sands projects currently on hold should go back into production and ramp up their earnings going forward.

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