ACO.X vs. BIP.UN, CU, ACO.Y, JE, EMA, BEP.UN, CPX, NPI, BIPC, and AQN
Should you be buying ATCO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATCO include Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN), Canadian Utilities (CU), ATCO (ACO.Y), Just Energy Group (JE), Emera (EMA), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), Capital Power (CPX), Northland Power (NPI), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), and Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
ATCO vs.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (TSE:BIP.UN) and ATCO (TSE:ACO.X) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
ATCO has a net margin of 8.16% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of -0.09%. ATCO's return on equity of 8.54% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.
In the previous week, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners both had 1 articles in the media. ATCO's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that ATCO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ATCO has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ATCO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.1% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of ATCO shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of ATCO shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ATCO has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners currently has a consensus target price of C$34.00, suggesting a potential downside of 17.52%. ATCO has a consensus target price of C$52.30, suggesting a potential upside of 0.91%. Given ATCO's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ATCO is more favorable than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners received 16 more outperform votes than ATCO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.08% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote while only 45.32% of users gave ATCO an outperform vote.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of C$2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. ATCO pays an annual dividend of C$1.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays out -1,211.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ATCO pays out 57.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
ATCO beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:ACO.X) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff