BIP.UN vs. CU, EMA, H, BEP.UN, FTS, BEPC, BIPC, AQN, NPI, and CPX
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners include Canadian Utilities (CU), Emera (EMA), Hydro One (H), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), Fortis (FTS), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Northland Power (NPI), and Capital Power (CPX). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Canadian Utilities (TSE:CU) and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (TSE:BIP.UN) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Canadian Utilities received 201 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.33% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote while only 59.72% of users gave Canadian Utilities an outperform vote.
Canadian Utilities presently has a consensus price target of C$35.43, suggesting a potential upside of 14.18%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a consensus price target of C$40.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.65%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Canadian Utilities is more favorable than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.
Canadian Utilities has a net margin of 17.49% compared to Canadian Utilities' net margin of 1.09%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity of 9.25% beat Canadian Utilities' return on equity.
14.7% of Canadian Utilities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.0% of Canadian Utilities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Canadian Utilities has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Canadian Utilities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Canadian Utilities has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Canadian Utilities had 4 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Canadian Utilities and 1 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Canadian Utilities' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' score of 0.26 indicating that Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Canadian Utilities pays an annual dividend of C$1.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of C$2.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Canadian Utilities pays out 84.6% 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 Partners pays out 531.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Canadian Utilities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Canadian Utilities beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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