Paramount Resources Ltd. (POU.TO) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — Paramount Resources Ltd.

POU.TO 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
Paramount Resources explores for and develops conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas reserves in Canada. It holds interests in the Willesden Green Duvernay development near Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, and in the Sinclair and Kaybob properties, which combine Duvernay and Montney rights. The company is based in Calgary, Alberta.
Where it sits in the stack
Paramount Resources holds no seat in Closelook's index; it belongs to the Energy sector, within Oil & Gas exploration and production, a sleeve of our universe that sits outside the AI build-out layers.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group has no assigned reason for this name. The market often names Canadian Natural Resources as a comparable Alberta-based oil and gas producer.
Why Closelook tracks it
Paramount Resources carries no index seat in the diary and no Closelook score has been assigned; there is no edition or quote coverage recorded for it yet.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether output from the Willesden Green Duvernay and Sinclair Montney developments keeps expanding, since that would change how the name reads against its Calgary-based peers.

Paramount Resources Ltd. (POU.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada.

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 POU.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Oil & Gas E&P · Canada · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Oil & Gas E&P · Canada

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

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

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.20%, monthly · buybacks 194 m CAD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 1.06 CAD per share · a 3.20% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 13 distributions, paid monthly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +166.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.40 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 0.0500 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-15
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.55 CAD (partial) · 2026: 0.91 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-20
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 2.25 bn CAD 26% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 194 m CAD 4.0% of today's market value
  • Share count −1.6% in FY2025 49 m CAD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 2.44 bn CAD in a year of negative free cash flow dividends and buybacks together

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 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

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 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · 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 → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Paramount Resources Ltd. (POU.TO)?

Paramount Resources Ltd. trades as POU.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is POU.TO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Paramount Resources Ltd. is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does POU.TO trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +8.2% vs the 50-day and +19.5% vs the 200-day average, 0.6% below the 52-week high and +70.6% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Paramount Resources Ltd. do?

Paramount Resources explores for and develops conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas reserves in Canada. It holds interests in the Willesden Green Duvernay development near Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, and in the Sinclair and Kaybob properties, which combine Duvernay and Montney rights. The company is based in Calgary, Alberta. Closelook's peer group has no assigned reason for this name. The market often names Canadian Natural Resources as a comparable Alberta-based oil and gas producer.

Where does Paramount Resources Ltd. sit in the AI build-out?

Paramount Resources holds no seat in Closelook's index; it belongs to the Energy sector, within Oil & Gas exploration and production, a sleeve of our universe that sits outside the AI build-out layers. Paramount Resources carries no index seat in the diary and no Closelook score has been assigned; there is no edition or quote coverage recorded for it yet.

Does Paramount Resources Ltd. pay a dividend?

Paramount Resources Ltd. has paid 1.06 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid monthly, a trailing yield of 3.20% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.0500 CAD on 2026-09-15. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 2.25 bn CAD in dividends and bought back 194 m CAD of its own shares. The share count fell 1.6% 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 POU.TO, 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 E&P. 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.