BIP vs. RCL, CCL, KEX, NCLH, TDW, MATX, INSW, GOGL, GLNG, and CUK
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Kirby (KEX), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Tidewater (TDW), Matson (MATX), International Seaways (INSW), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), and Carnival Co. & (CUK). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, indicating that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.9% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 11 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 13 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.54 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royal Caribbean Cruises received 372 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.30% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 64.95% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Royal Caribbean Cruises 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.
Royal Caribbean Cruises presently has a consensus price target of $151.81, suggesting a potential upside of 2.80%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a consensus price target of $38.20, suggesting a potential upside of 32.23%. Given Royal Caribbean Cruises' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Royal Caribbean Cruises' net margin of 2.05%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity of 51.54% beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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