BIP.UN vs. CU, EMA, H, FTS, BEP.UN, AQN, BEPC, BIPC, NPI, and CPX
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners include Canadian Utilities (CU), Emera (EMA), Hydro One (H), Fortis (FTS), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Northland Power (NPI), and Capital Power (CPX). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (TSE:BIP.UN) and Canadian Utilities (TSE:CU) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Utilities has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Utilities has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Canadian Utilities 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.
In the previous week, Canadian Utilities had 8 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Canadian Utilities and 1 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Canadian Utilities' score of -0.55 indicating that Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners presently has a consensus price target of C$40.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.99%. Canadian Utilities has a consensus price target of C$35.29, indicating a potential upside of 16.45%. Given Canadian Utilities' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Canadian Utilities is more favorable than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of C$2.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Canadian Utilities pays an annual dividend of C$1.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays out 1,152.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Canadian Utilities pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Canadian Utilities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
61.8% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.4% of Canadian Utilities shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.2% of Canadian Utilities shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Canadian Utilities has a net margin of 18.63% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 0.70%. Canadian Utilities' return on equity of 10.08% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.
Canadian Utilities received 201 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.33% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote while only 59.81% of users gave Canadian Utilities an outperform vote.
Summary
Canadian Utilities beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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