BEP.UN vs. CPX, TA, CU, NPI, AQN, BEPC, BIPC, ACO.X, BLX, and EMA
Should you be buying Brookfield Renewable Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Renewable Partners include Capital Power (CPX), TransAlta (TA), Canadian Utilities (CU), Northland Power (NPI), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), ATCO (ACO.X), Boralex (BLX), and Emera (EMA). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Capital Power (TSE:CPX) and Brookfield Renewable Partners (TSE:BEP.UN) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Capital Power received 74 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Brookfield Renewable Partners an outperform vote while only 53.38% of users gave Capital Power an outperform vote.
Capital Power has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Renewable Partners has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Capital Power has a net margin of 18.29% compared to Capital Power's net margin of -0.60%. Brookfield Renewable Partners' return on equity of 26.11% beat Capital Power's return on equity.
19.6% of Capital Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.6% of Brookfield Renewable Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Capital Power shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Capital Power presently has a consensus target price of C$46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.35%. Given Brookfield Renewable Partners' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Capital Power is more favorable than Brookfield Renewable Partners.
In the previous week, Brookfield Renewable Partners had 3 more articles in the media than Capital Power. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Brookfield Renewable Partners and 4 mentions for Capital Power. Capital Power's average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat Brookfield Renewable Partners' score of -0.35 indicating that Brookfield Renewable Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Capital Power has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Renewable Partners. Brookfield Renewable Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Capital Power pays an annual dividend of C$2.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Brookfield Renewable Partners pays an annual dividend of C$1.93 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Capital Power pays out 40.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Renewable Partners pays out -448.8% 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.
Summary
Capital Power beats Brookfield Renewable Partners on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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