CU vs. BIP.UN, ACO.X, ACO.Y, JE, H, EMA, BEP.UN, BEPC, BIPC, and NPI
Should you be buying Canadian Utilities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Utilities include Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN), ATCO (ACO.X), ATCO (ACO.Y), Just Energy Group (JE), Hydro One (H), Emera (EMA), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), and Northland Power (NPI). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Canadian Utilities (TSE:CU) and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (TSE:BIP.UN) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Canadian Utilities presently has a consensus target price of C$35.43, suggesting a potential upside of 15.82%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a consensus target price of C$40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.29%. Given Canadian Utilities' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Canadian Utilities is more favorable than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.
Canadian Utilities received 201 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.33% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote while only 59.72% of users gave Canadian Utilities an outperform vote.
Canadian Utilities has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Canadian Utilities had 1 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Canadian Utilities and 1 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Canadian Utilities' score of 0.00 indicating that Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Canadian Utilities has a net margin of 17.49% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 1.09%. Canadian Utilities' return on equity of 9.25% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.
Canadian Utilities has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Canadian Utilities 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.
Canadian Utilities pays an annual dividend of C$1.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of C$2.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Canadian Utilities pays out 84.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays out 531.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Canadian Utilities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
14.7% of Canadian Utilities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.0% of Canadian Utilities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Canadian Utilities beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CU and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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