XIFR vs. BEPC, NFE, ELP, AQN, TAC, NWE, UGP, EE, RNW, and CEPU
Should you be buying XPLR Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XPLR Infrastructure include Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), New Fortress Energy (NFE), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), TransAlta (TAC), NorthWestern Energy Group (NWE), Ultrapar Participações (UGP), Excelerate Energy (EE), ReNew Energy Global (RNW), and Central Puerto (CEPU). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
XPLR Infrastructure vs.
Brookfield Renewable (NYSE:BEPC) and XPLR Infrastructure (NYSE:XIFR) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Brookfield Renewable presently has a consensus price target of $32.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.25%. XPLR Infrastructure has a consensus price target of $20.27, suggesting a potential upside of 112.44%. Given XPLR Infrastructure's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe XPLR Infrastructure is more favorable than Brookfield Renewable.
Brookfield Renewable has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XPLR Infrastructure has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
XPLR Infrastructure received 374 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.21% of users gave XPLR Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 53.33% of users gave Brookfield Renewable an outperform vote.
Brookfield Renewable has higher revenue and earnings than XPLR Infrastructure. XPLR Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Renewable, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Renewable has a net margin of -0.15% compared to XPLR Infrastructure's net margin of -0.73%. XPLR Infrastructure's return on equity of 1.34% beat Brookfield Renewable's return on equity.
75.1% of Brookfield Renewable shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of XPLR Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of XPLR Infrastructure shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, XPLR Infrastructure had 20 more articles in the media than Brookfield Renewable. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for XPLR Infrastructure and 23 mentions for Brookfield Renewable. Brookfield Renewable's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat XPLR Infrastructure's score of 0.45 indicating that Brookfield Renewable is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brookfield Renewable pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. XPLR Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $3.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 38.5%. Brookfield Renewable pays out -159.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. XPLR Infrastructure pays out -3,670.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. XPLR Infrastructure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
XPLR Infrastructure beats Brookfield Renewable on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:XIFR) was last updated on 2/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
