BIPC vs. RNW, TA, ORA, POM, GMP, RMP, SXE, HE, FE, and SRE
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure include TransAlta Renewables (RNW), TransAlta (TA), Aura Minerals (ORA), PolyMet Mining (POM), GMP Capital Inc. (GMP.TO) (GMP), RMP Energy (RMP), Strata-X Energy (SXE), Hanwei Energy Services (HE), First Energy Metals (FE), and Saville Resources (SRE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
TransAlta Renewables (TSE:RNW) and Brookfield Infrastructure (TSE:BIPC) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Brookfield Infrastructure had 1 more articles in the media than TransAlta Renewables. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure and 0 mentions for TransAlta Renewables. TransAlta Renewables' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Brookfield Infrastructure's score of 0.00 indicating that Brookfield Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
9.5% of TransAlta Renewables shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 60.1% of TransAlta Renewables shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
TransAlta Renewables has a net margin of 15.73% compared to TransAlta Renewables' net margin of 15.13%. TransAlta Renewables' return on equity of 88.01% beat Brookfield Infrastructure's return on equity.
TransAlta Renewables presently has a consensus price target of C$13.43, indicating a potential upside of ∞. Given Brookfield Infrastructure's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe TransAlta Renewables is more favorable than Brookfield Infrastructure.
Brookfield Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than TransAlta Renewables. TransAlta Renewables is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TransAlta Renewables has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TransAlta Renewables pays an annual dividend of C$0.94 per share. Brookfield Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of 2.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. TransAlta Renewables pays out 313.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brookfield Infrastructure pays out 43.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Infrastructure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
TransAlta Renewables received 284 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Brookfield Infrastructure beats TransAlta Renewables on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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