ATCO (ACO.X) Competitors

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (TSE:BIP.UN) and ATCO (TSE:ACO.X) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in BIP.UN or ACO.X?

67.1% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of ATCO shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of ATCO shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer BIP.UN or ACO.X?

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners presently has a consensus target price of C$34.00, suggesting a potential downside of 23.56%. ATCO has a consensus target price of C$52.70, suggesting a potential upside of 3.97%. Given ATCO's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ATCO is more favorable than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
ATCO	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.25

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in BIP.UN or ACO.X?

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 45.22% of users gave ATCO an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	Outperform Votes 229 75.08%	Underperform Votes 76 24.92%
ATCO	Outperform Votes 213 45.22%	Underperform Votes 258 54.78%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, BIP.UN or ACO.X?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	C$19.78B	1.04	-C$57M	-C$0.18	-247.11
ATCO	C$4.71B	1.07	C$385M	C$3.42	14.82

Is BIP.UN or ACO.X a better dividend stock?

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of C$2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. ATCO pays an annual dividend of C$1.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. 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.

Is BIP.UN or ACO.X more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	-0.09%	5.21%	3.18%
ATCO	8.16%	8.54%	2.95%

Does the media prefer BIP.UN or ACO.X?

In the previous week, ATCO had 4 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for ATCO and 2 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. ATCO's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' score of 0.55 indicating that ATCO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
ATCO	1 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, BIP.UN or ACO.X?

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.

Summary

ATCO beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.