BIP vs. AMH, DOC, ARCC, KIM, RGA, RYAN, BEN, WPC, UDR, and BAP
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners include American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), Healthpeak Properties (DOC), Ares Capital (ARCC), Kimco Realty (KIM), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Franklin Resources (BEN), W. P. Carey (WPC), UDR (UDR), and Credicorp (BAP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) and American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE:AMH) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
57.9% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of American Homes 4 Rent shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of American Homes 4 Rent shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
American Homes 4 Rent has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. American Homes 4 Rent 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.
In the previous week, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners had 3 more articles in the media than American Homes 4 Rent. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and 8 mentions for American Homes 4 Rent. American Homes 4 Rent's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' score of 0.58 indicating that American Homes 4 Rent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Homes 4 Rent received 23 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.59% of users gave American Homes 4 Rent an outperform vote while only 65.06% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. American Homes 4 Rent pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays out 1,157.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. American Homes 4 Rent pays out 104.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Homes 4 Rent has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners currently has a consensus price target of $38.60, indicating a potential upside of 42.23%. American Homes 4 Rent has a consensus price target of $39.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.94%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than American Homes 4 Rent.
American Homes 4 Rent has a net margin of 23.42% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 1.34%. American Homes 4 Rent's return on equity of 5.14% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.
Summary
American Homes 4 Rent beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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