BIP vs. RCL, CCL, VIK, NCLH, KEX, TDW, MATX, GLNG, CUK, and INSW
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Viking (VIK), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Kirby (KEX), Tidewater (TDW), Matson (MATX), Golar LNG (GLNG), Carnival Co. & (CUK), and International Seaways (INSW). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) and Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners currently has a consensus target price of $38.20, indicating a potential upside of 22.24%. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a consensus target price of $172.25, indicating a potential upside of 13.25%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 2.05%. Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity of 51.54% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.
Royal Caribbean Cruises received 380 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.42% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 64.87% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.62, meaning that its stock price is 162% more volatile than the S&P 500.
57.9% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Royal Caribbean Cruises 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, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 46 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 6 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Royal Caribbean Cruises' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' score of 0.70 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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