ONE Gas (NYSE:OGS) and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Volatility & Risk
ONE Gas has a beta of 0.31, meaning that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings for ONE Gas and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score |
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ONE Gas | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2.13 |
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2.70 |
ONE Gas presently has a consensus target price of $80.2857, indicating a potential downside of 0.33%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a consensus target price of $56.20, indicating a potential upside of 2.67%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than ONE Gas.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares ONE Gas and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio |
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ONE Gas | $1.65 billion | 2.60 | $186.75 million | $3.51 | 22.95 |
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners | $6.60 billion | 2.45 | $211 million | $0.07 | 782.00 |
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has higher revenue and earnings than ONE Gas. ONE Gas 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.
Dividends
ONE Gas pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. ONE Gas pays out 66.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays out 2,771.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ONE Gas has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Profitability
This table compares ONE Gas and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets |
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ONE Gas | 12.63% | 8.69% | 3.32% |
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners | 1.14% | 0.47% | 0.17% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
79.0% of ONE Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.2% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of ONE Gas shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ONE Gas beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.