SPB vs. BIPC, TA, INE, BLX, ACO.X, CPX, NPI, AQN, CU, and BEPC Should you be buying Superior Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Superior Plus include Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC), TransAlta (TA), Innergex Renewable Energy (INE), Boralex (BLX), ATCO (ACO.X), Capital Power (CPX), Northland Power (NPI), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Canadian Utilities (CU), and Brookfield Renewable (BEPC). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Brookfield Infrastructure (TSE:BIPC ) and Superior Plus (TSE:SPB ) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
Brookfield Infrastructure has a net margin of 15.13% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure's net margin of 1.54%. Superior Plus' return on equity of 88.01% beat Brookfield Infrastructure's return on equity.
73.0% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.2% of Superior Plus shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Superior Plus 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.
In the previous week, Superior Plus had 10 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Superior Plus and 1 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure. Brookfield Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of -0.07 beat Superior Plus' score of -0.71 indicating that Superior Plus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Superior Plus received 425 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users.
Superior Plus has a consensus target price of C$12.69, suggesting a potential upside of 35.12%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Superior Plus is more favorable than Brookfield Infrastructure.
Brookfield Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of 2.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Superior Plus pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Brookfield Infrastructure pays out 43.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Superior Plus pays out 313.0% 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 Infrastructure has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Superior Plus. Brookfield Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Superior Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Infrastructure has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Superior Plus has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary Brookfield Infrastructure and Superior Plus tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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