BIP vs. DOC, RYAN, RGA, KEY, FNF, AMH, EQH, ARCC, BAP, and WPC
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners include Healthpeak Properties (DOC), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), KeyCorp (KEY), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), Equitable (EQH), Ares Capital (ARCC), Credicorp (BAP), and W. P. Carey (WPC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) and Healthpeak Properties (NYSE:DOC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
57.9% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Healthpeak Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Healthpeak Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners presently has a consensus target price of $38.20, indicating a potential upside of 28.23%. Healthpeak Properties has a consensus target price of $19.41, indicating a potential upside of 2.61%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than Healthpeak Properties.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Healthpeak Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays out 522.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Healthpeak Properties pays out 342.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Healthpeak Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Healthpeak Properties has a net margin of 8.56% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 2.05%. Healthpeak Properties' return on equity of 2.54% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthpeak Properties has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners had 2 more articles in the media than Healthpeak Properties. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and 6 mentions for Healthpeak Properties. Healthpeak Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' score of 1.10 indicating that Healthpeak Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Healthpeak Properties. Healthpeak Properties 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.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners received 70 more outperform votes than Healthpeak Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.02% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote while only 62.91% of users gave Healthpeak Properties an outperform vote.
Summary
Healthpeak Properties beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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