CPX vs. BEP.UN, TA, BIP.UN, EMA, BIPC, BEPC, CU, NPI, AQN, and ACO.X
Should you be buying Capital Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Power include Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), TransAlta (TA), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN), Emera (EMA), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Canadian Utilities (CU), Northland Power (NPI), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), and ATCO (ACO.X). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Brookfield Renewable Partners (TSE:BEP.UN) and Capital Power (TSE:CPX) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Capital Power has a net margin of 16.78% compared to Capital Power's net margin of -2.25%. Brookfield Renewable Partners' return on equity of 19.80% beat Capital Power's return on equity.
Brookfield Renewable Partners currently has a consensus target price of C$40.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.94%. Capital Power has a consensus target price of C$45.36, indicating a potential upside of 9.81%. Given Capital Power's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Brookfield Renewable Partners is more favorable than Capital Power.
67.4% of Brookfield Renewable Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.7% of Capital Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Capital Power shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Capital Power has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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 received 76 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.69% of users gave Brookfield Renewable Partners an outperform vote while only 52.75% of users gave Capital Power an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Capital Power had 15 more articles in the media than Brookfield Renewable Partners. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Capital Power and 4 mentions for Brookfield Renewable Partners. Capital Power's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Brookfield Renewable Partners' score of 0.32 indicating that Brookfield Renewable Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brookfield Renewable Partners has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Power has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Renewable Partners pays an annual dividend of C$1.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Capital Power pays an annual dividend of C$2.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Brookfield Renewable Partners pays out -307.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Capital Power pays out 47.0% 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 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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