BIP vs. RCL, CCL, NCLH, KEX, TDW, MATX, INSW, CUK, GOGL, and GLNG
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Kirby (KEX), Tidewater (TDW), Matson (MATX), International Seaways (INSW), Carnival Co. & (CUK), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), and Golar LNG (GLNG). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) and Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
57.9% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners both had 8 articles in the media. Royal Caribbean Cruises' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' score of 1.02 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 2.05%. Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity of 51.54% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Royal Caribbean Cruises 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.
Royal Caribbean Cruises received 372 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.30% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 64.87% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.56, meaning that its share price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners presently has a consensus price target of $38.20, indicating a potential upside of 33.80%. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a consensus price target of $151.81, indicating a potential downside of 1.78%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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