Why WPX Energy Is Ready to Rebound

Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, natural gas and oil explorer WPX Energy (NYSE: WPX  ) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

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

WPX facts

Headquarters (founded)	Tulsa, Okla. (2011)
Market Cap	$2.8 billion
Industry	Oil and gas exploration and production
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$3.2 billion
Management	CEO Ralph Hill CFO Rodney Sailor
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years)	(8.7%)
Cash/Debt	$153.0 million / $1.5 billion
Competitors	Anadarko Petroleum Apache Chesapeake Energy

Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 92% of the 41 members who have rated WPX believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.

Just last week, one of those Fools, All-Star TMFDeej, succinctly summed up the WPX bull case for our community:

Barron's recently published an interesting article about how the former [Williams Companies (NYSE: WMB  ) ] spinoff WPX Energy will be able to return to profitability even without an increase in the price of natural gas by renegotiating terrible legacy mid-stream contracts that it was saddled with over the next two years. That's just the sort of story catalyst that I like to see.

Any increase in the price of natural gas, which I'm certainly not counting on would be gravy. So would the sale of the company's Argentina assets (yuck).

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