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Capital Power (CPX) Competitors

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C$57.04 -1.74 (-2.96%)
(As of 11/15/2024 ET)

CPX vs. BEP.UN, TA, H, BIP.UN, EMA, BIPC, BEPC, CU, NPI, and AQN

Should you be buying Capital Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Power include Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.UN), TransAlta (TA), Hydro One (H), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN), Emera (EMA), Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), Canadian Utilities (CU), Northland Power (NPI), and Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.

Capital Power vs.

Capital Power (TSE:CPX) and Brookfield Renewable Partners (TSE:BEP.UN) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Capital Power has a net margin of 16.77% compared to Brookfield Renewable Partners' net margin of -4.20%. Capital Power's return on equity of 19.49% beat Brookfield Renewable Partners' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Capital Power16.77% 19.49% 5.86%
Brookfield Renewable Partners -4.20%0.46%0.84%

In the previous week, Brookfield Renewable Partners had 2 more articles in the media than Capital Power. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Brookfield Renewable Partners and 0 mentions for Capital Power. Brookfield Renewable Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Capital Power's score of 0.00 indicating that Brookfield Renewable Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Capital Power Neutral
Brookfield Renewable Partners Positive

Capital Power pays an annual dividend of C$2.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Brookfield Renewable Partners pays an annual dividend of C$1.91 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Capital Power pays out 51.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Renewable Partners pays out -219.5% 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. Brookfield Renewable Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Capital Power received 84 more outperform votes than Brookfield Renewable Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.77% of users gave Brookfield Renewable Partners an outperform vote while only 52.61% of users gave Capital Power an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Capital PowerOutperform Votes
383
52.61%
Underperform Votes
345
47.39%
Brookfield Renewable PartnersOutperform Votes
299
60.77%
Underperform Votes
193
39.23%

Capital Power has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Renewable Partners. Brookfield Renewable Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Capital PowerC$3.88B1.91C$613MC$5.0511.30
Brookfield Renewable PartnersC$5.48B1.84-C$230M-C$0.87-40.75

Capital Power currently has a consensus target price of C$55.11, suggesting a potential downside of 3.38%. Brookfield Renewable Partners has a consensus target price of C$40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.83%. Given Brookfield Renewable Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Brookfield Renewable Partners is more favorable than Capital Power.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Capital Power
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40
Brookfield Renewable Partners
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Capital Power has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Renewable Partners has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

19.1% of Capital Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.8% of Brookfield Renewable Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Capital Power shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Capital Power beats Brookfield Renewable Partners on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CPX vs. The Competition

MetricCapital PowerUtilities IndustryUtilities SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$7.41BC$4.04BC$12.81BC$6.08B
Dividend Yield5.18%4.46%4.09%5.33%
P/E Ratio11.30233.0498.0826.33
Price / Sales1.9119.5226.691,427.12
Price / Cash26.2211.2518.4282.02
Price / Book2.262.382.283.06
Net IncomeC$613MC$340.56MC$621.66MC$291.48M
7 Day Performance-0.02%-2.26%-0.26%-0.14%
1 Month Performance9.40%-0.65%-0.74%-1.45%
1 Year Performance46.11%68.98%9.77%42.59%

Capital Power Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CPX
Capital Power
2.1043 of 5 stars
C$57.04
-3.0%
C$55.11
-3.4%
+45.3%C$7.41BC$3.88B11.30737
BEP.UN
Brookfield Renewable Partners
1.7998 of 5 stars
C$35.45
-0.2%
C$40.00
+12.8%
+3.4%C$10.11BC$5.48B-40.75N/APositive News
TA
TransAlta
2.3338 of 5 stars
C$14.47
-0.7%
C$16.17
+11.7%
+26.6%C$4.31BC$3.17B7.621,257Analyst Revision
News Coverage
H
Hydro One
0.7273 of 5 stars
C$44.66
+1.5%
C$43.00
-3.7%
+16.6%C$26.77BC$8.11B23.8850,000
BIP.UN
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
0.2563 of 5 stars
C$48.26
+0.7%
C$34.00
-29.5%
+27.3%C$22.28BC$19.78B-268.1144,000
EMA
Emera
1.1167 of 5 stars
C$50.76
+0.6%
C$52.10
+2.6%
+4.3%C$14.64BC$7.35B19.757,120Analyst Revision
News Coverage
BIPC
Brookfield Infrastructure
N/A60.80
+1.9%
N/A+39.1%$8.02B$3.28B4.521,700
BEPC
Brookfield Renewable
N/A42.39
-0.6%
N/A+16.4%$7.61B$4.71B7.461,890News Coverage
CU
Canadian Utilities
1.0983 of 5 stars
C$34.98
+1.7%
C$36.80
+5.2%
+11.6%C$7.17BC$3.74B17.679,018Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
NPI
Northland Power
3.9344 of 5 stars
C$20.20
-0.7%
C$30.14
+49.2%
-9.9%C$5.20BC$2.42B84.171,150Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
AQN
Algonquin Power & Utilities
1.9123 of 5 stars
C$6.77
+0.3%
C$5.50
-18.8%
-16.1%C$5.19BC$2.63B30.773,440Analyst Revision

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This page (TSE:CPX) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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