BIPC vs. SPB, AQN, CU, NPI, CPX, BEPC, ACO.X, BLX, TA, and BEP.UN
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure include Superior Plus (SPB), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Canadian Utilities (CU), Northland Power (NPI), Capital Power (CPX), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), ATCO (ACO.X), Boralex (BLX), TransAlta (TA), and Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Superior Plus (TSE:SPB) and Brookfield Infrastructure (TSE:BIPC) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Brookfield Infrastructure has a net margin of 15.13% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure's net margin of 1.54%. Superior Plus' return on equity of 88.01% beat Brookfield Infrastructure's return on equity.
Superior Plus has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Superior Plus currently has a consensus price target of C$12.69, indicating a potential upside of 35.12%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Superior Plus is more favorable than Brookfield Infrastructure.
Brookfield Infrastructure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Superior Plus. Brookfield Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Superior Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Superior Plus pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Brookfield Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of 2.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Superior Plus pays out 313.0% 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 43.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Superior Plus had 8 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Superior Plus and 1 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure. Brookfield Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of -0.07 beat Superior Plus' score of -0.71 indicating that Superior Plus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
31.2% of Superior Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.0% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Superior Plus shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Superior Plus received 425 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Superior Plus and Brookfield Infrastructure tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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