Brookfield Infrastructure Partners - BIP Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" BIP shares.
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7 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' shares. Their BIP share price forecasts range from $38.00 to $49.50. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $45.21 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 40.7% from the stock's current price.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stock was trading at $30.99 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, BIP stock has increased by 3.7% and is now trading at $32.14.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners saw a increase in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 2,540,000 shares, an increase of 21.5% from the February 13th total of 2,090,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 514,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.9 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 3rd 2023.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (NYSE:BIP) announced its earnings results on Thursday, February, 2nd. The utilities provider reported ($0.03) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.71 by $0.74. The utilities provider earned $3.71 billion during the quarter. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners had a net margin of 2.09% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 1.20%.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 2nd. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, February 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.382 per share on Friday, March 31st. This represents a $1.53 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.75%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, February 27th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.36.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) stock in their portfolio include Formidable ETF (FORH), Invesco International Dividend Achievers ETF (PID), iShares Global Utilities ETF (JXI), AGF Global Infrastructure ETF (GLIF), DJ Brookfield Global Infrastructure ETF (TOLZ) and Invesco Dividend Achievers ETF (PFM).

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) pays an annual dividend of $1.53 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.81%. BIP has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 1,119.57%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, BIP will have a dividend payout ratio of 46.79% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners's stock split before market open on Monday, June 13th 2022. The 3-2 split was announced on Wednesday, May 4th 2022. The newly minted shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, June 10th 2022. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 150 shares after the split.

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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BIP."

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include 1832 Asset Management L.P. (3.44%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (3.15%), TD Asset Management Inc (3.03%), The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (2.94%), Morgan Stanley (1.34%) and Neuberger Berman Group LLC (1.18%).

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One share of BIP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.14.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) has a market capitalization of $14.73 billion and generates $14.43 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $341 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.1367 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 44,000 workers across the globe.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' mailing address is 73 FRONT STREET, HAMILTON D0, HM12. The official website for the company is www.bip.brookfield.com. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at (441) 294-3309, via email at bip.enquiries@brookfield.com, or via fax at 416-365-9642.