BEPC vs. AQN, NPI, BLX, CU, BIPC, CPX, BEP.UN, ACO.X, TA, and SPB
Should you be buying Brookfield Renewable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Renewable include Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Northland Power (NPI), Boralex (BLX), Canadian Utilities (CU), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Capital Power (CPX), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), ATCO (ACO.X), TransAlta (TA), and Superior Plus (SPB). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Algonquin Power & Utilities (TSE:AQN) and Brookfield Renewable (TSE:BEPC) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Algonquin Power & Utilities pays an annual dividend of C$0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Brookfield Renewable pays an annual dividend of 1.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Algonquin Power & Utilities pays out 1,475.0% 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 Renewable pays out 18.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Brookfield Renewable has higher revenue and earnings than Algonquin Power & Utilities. Brookfield Renewable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Algonquin Power & Utilities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Algonquin Power & Utilities has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Renewable has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Algonquin Power & Utilities received 517 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable when rated by MarketBeat users.
62.5% of Algonquin Power & Utilities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Brookfield Renewable shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Algonquin Power & Utilities shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Brookfield Renewable shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Algonquin Power & Utilities currently has a consensus target price of C$7.08, indicating a potential downside of 21.82%. Given Brookfield Renewable's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Algonquin Power & Utilities is more favorable than Brookfield Renewable.
In the previous week, Algonquin Power & Utilities had 12 more articles in the media than Brookfield Renewable. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Algonquin Power & Utilities and 1 mentions for Brookfield Renewable. Algonquin Power & Utilities' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Brookfield Renewable's score of -0.11 indicating that Brookfield Renewable is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield Renewable has a net margin of 29.75% compared to Brookfield Renewable's net margin of 1.06%. Algonquin Power & Utilities' return on equity of 10.84% beat Brookfield Renewable's return on equity.
Summary
Brookfield Renewable beats Algonquin Power & Utilities on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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