BIPC vs. ATO, NRG, EBR, AES, VIV, AGR, LNT, NI, EVRG, and WTRG
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure include Atmos Energy (ATO), NRG Energy (NRG), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), AES (AES), Telefônica Brasil (VIV), Avangrid (AGR), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), Evergy (EVRG), and Essential Utilities (WTRG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Atmos Energy (NYSE:ATO) and Brookfield Infrastructure (NASDAQ:BIPC) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Atmos Energy received 447 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.42% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 64.43% of users gave Atmos Energy an outperform vote.
Atmos Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure. Atmos Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atmos Energy currently has a consensus price target of $129.17, indicating a potential upside of 12.53%. Brookfield Infrastructure has a consensus price target of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.67%. Given Atmos Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Brookfield Infrastructure is more favorable than Atmos Energy.
Atmos Energy pays an annual dividend of $3.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Brookfield Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Atmos Energy pays out 48.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Infrastructure pays out 112.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brookfield Infrastructure has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Brookfield Infrastructure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Brookfield Infrastructure had 1 more articles in the media than Atmos Energy. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure and 7 mentions for Atmos Energy. Brookfield Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Atmos Energy's score of 1.25 indicating that Atmos Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Atmos Energy has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Atmos Energy has a net margin of 24.65% compared to Atmos Energy's net margin of 0.00%. Brookfield Infrastructure's return on equity of 9.01% beat Atmos Energy's return on equity.
90.2% of Atmos Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Atmos Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Atmos Energy beats Brookfield Infrastructure on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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