Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC) Competitors

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (NYSE:EBR) and Brookfield Infrastructure (NASDAQ:BIPC) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Do analysts recommend EBR or BIPC?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	4.00
Brookfield Infrastructure	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Is EBR or BIPC a better dividend stock?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Brookfield Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays out 36.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Infrastructure pays out 119.4% 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 raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Brookfield Infrastructure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has better valuation and earnings, EBR or BIPC?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	$41.88B	0.40	$977.82M	$0.76	9.82
Brookfield Infrastructure	$3.69B	1.35	$171.39M	$1.44	29.03

Which has more volatility and risk, EBR or BIPC?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is EBR or BIPC more profitable?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a net margin of 26.50% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure's net margin of 0.00%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' return on equity of 9.00% beat Brookfield Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	26.50%	9.00%	3.82%
Brookfield Infrastructure	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in EBR or BIPC?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás received 139 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.42% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 58.63% of users gave Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	Outperform Votes 163 58.63%	Underperform Votes 115 41.37%
Brookfield Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 24 77.42%	Underperform Votes 7 22.58%

Does the media refer more to EBR or BIPC?

In the previous week, Brookfield Infrastructure had 4 more articles in the media than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure and 3 mentions for Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás. Brookfield Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' score of 0.83 indicating that Brookfield Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Brookfield Infrastructure	7 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do insiders & institutionals believe in EBR or BIPC?

2.6% of Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Brookfield Infrastructure beats Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.