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Company snapshot — Cenovus Energy Inc

CVE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Cenovus Energy develops, produces, refines and markets crude oil, natural gas and refined products across Canada, the United States and China. It runs an Upstream side that produces heavy oil and bitumen along with NGL and natural gas assets in Alberta and British Columbia, plus offshore work off Canada's East Coast and in Asia Pacific. Its Downstream side runs an upgrading and asphalt refining complex, a rail terminal, ethanol plants and a fuels business that turns crude into petrol, diesel and jet fuel. It is based in Calgary.
Where it sits in the stack
Cenovus carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, or in Halo; it sits in the diary's Energy sleeve for the United States, alongside other scored oil and gas names we track outside the build-out theme.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other Energy names scored for the United States, including Permian Resources, Ecopetrol, YPF, BP, Petrobras, Venture Global and Chord Energy; the market also compares it with Suncor as an integrated Canadian producer.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score with momentum as the strongest module and quality as the weakest; it holds no index seat and no quote history in the diary so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the gap between its strong momentum reading and weaker quality score narrows as refining margins and heavy oil differentials move.

Cenovus Energy Inc (CVE) trades on US exchanges, classified under Energy.

The Closelook company score reads 63/100 composite (momentum 88, quality 52, valuation 80) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for CVE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Oil & Gas Integrated · US · 7 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Oil & Gas Integrated · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against CVE on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.86%, quarterly · buybacks 2.50 bn USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What CVE pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.61 USD per share · a 1.86% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +46.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.42 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.16 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-15
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.56 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.47 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-14
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 1.44 bn USD 23% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 2.50 bn USD 4.0% of today's market value
  • Share count −2.3% in FY2025 163 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 3.93 bn USD · 116% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Energy in US: −1.3% week · +1.1% month · +20.5% quarter · +16.0% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLE.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Cenovus Energy Inc (CVE)?

Cenovus Energy Inc trades as CVE on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Energy in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is CVE in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Cenovus Energy Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Cenovus Energy Inc's Closelook composite score?

63 out of 100, with momentum 88, quality 52 and valuation 80 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does CVE trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +6.7% vs the 50-day and +29.7% vs the 200-day average, 4.3% below the 52-week high and +111.2% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Cenovus Energy Inc do?

Cenovus Energy develops, produces, refines and markets crude oil, natural gas and refined products across Canada, the United States and China. It runs an Upstream side that produces heavy oil and bitumen along with NGL and natural gas assets in Alberta and British Columbia, plus offshore work off Canada's East Coast and in Asia Pacific. Its Downstream side runs an upgrading and asphalt refining complex, a rail terminal, ethanol plants and a fuels business that turns crude into petrol, diesel and jet fuel. Closelook's peer group places it with other Energy names scored for the United States, including Permian Resources, Ecopetrol, YPF, BP, Petrobras, Venture Global and Chord Energy; the market also compares it with Suncor as an integrated Canadian producer.

Where does Cenovus Energy Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Cenovus carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, or in Halo; it sits in the diary's Energy sleeve for the United States, alongside other scored oil and gas names we track outside the build-out theme. It carries a Closelook score with momentum as the strongest module and quality as the weakest; it holds no index seat and no quote history in the diary so far.

Does Cenovus Energy Inc pay a dividend?

Cenovus Energy Inc has paid 0.61 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.86% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.16 USD on 2026-09-15. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 1.44 bn USD in dividends and bought back 2.50 bn USD of its own shares, 116% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 2.3% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CVE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Oil & Gas Integrated, then Energy. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.