BIP vs. PFG, SUI, RF, HBAN, IRM, TW, CINF, MAA, NTRS, and VTR
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners include Principal Financial Group (PFG), Sun Communities (SUI), Regions Financial (RF), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Iron Mountain (IRM), Tradeweb Markets (TW), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), Northern Trust (NTRS), and Ventas (VTR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners vs.
Principal Financial Group (NASDAQ:PFG) and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Principal Financial Group has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Principal Financial Group had 8 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Principal Financial Group and 1 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Principal Financial Group's score of 0.68 indicating that Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Principal Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Principal Financial Group 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.
Principal Financial Group currently has a consensus price target of $77.31, indicating a potential upside of 8.47%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a consensus price target of $43.75, indicating a potential upside of 19.60%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than Principal Financial Group.
Principal Financial Group has a net margin of 24.97% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 1.67%. Principal Financial Group's return on equity of 16.04% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.
Principal Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $2.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.53 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Principal Financial Group pays out 15.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays out 1,912.7% 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 raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners received 535 more outperform votes than Principal Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.85% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote while only 13.10% of users gave Principal Financial Group an outperform vote.
74.2% of Principal Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.8% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Principal Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Principal Financial Group beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BIP and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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