BEP.UN vs. CPX, TA, BEPC, EMA, CU, AQN, BIPC, NPI, ACO.X, and BLX
Should you be buying Brookfield Renewable Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Renewable Partners include Capital Power (CPX), TransAlta (TA), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Emera (EMA), Canadian Utilities (CU), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Northland Power (NPI), ATCO (ACO.X), and Boralex (BLX). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Brookfield Renewable Partners (TSE:BEP.UN) and Capital Power (TSE:CPX) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and institutional ownership.
Capital Power received 76 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.86% of users gave Brookfield Renewable Partners an outperform vote while only 53.06% of users gave Capital Power an outperform vote.
Capital Power has a net margin of 18.29% compared to Brookfield Renewable Partners' net margin of -2.25%. Capital Power's return on equity of 26.11% beat Brookfield Renewable Partners' return on equity.
Brookfield Renewable Partners has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Power has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Renewable Partners pays an annual dividend of C$1.93 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Capital Power pays an annual dividend of C$2.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Brookfield Renewable Partners pays out -306.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Capital Power pays out 40.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Brookfield Renewable Partners presently has a consensus target price of C$38.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.50%. Capital Power has a consensus target price of C$44.45, indicating a potential upside of 18.55%. Given Capital Power's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Capital Power is more favorable than Brookfield Renewable Partners.
In the previous week, Capital Power had 8 more articles in the media than Brookfield Renewable Partners. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Capital Power and 7 mentions for Brookfield Renewable Partners. Capital Power's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Brookfield Renewable Partners' score of 0.58 indicating that Capital Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
66.1% of Brookfield Renewable Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.6% of Capital Power shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Capital Power shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Capital Power has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield Renewable Partners. Brookfield Renewable Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Capital Power beats Brookfield Renewable Partners on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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