BIPC vs. CMS, NRG, ATO, EBR, AES, VIV, AGR, LNT, NI, and EVRG
Should you be buying Brookfield Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Infrastructure include CMS Energy (CMS), NRG Energy (NRG), Atmos Energy (ATO), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), AES (AES), Telefônica Brasil (VIV), Avangrid (AGR), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), and Evergy (EVRG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Brookfield Infrastructure (NASDAQ:BIPC) and CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.
Brookfield Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. CMS Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Brookfield Infrastructure pays out 112.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CMS Energy pays out 62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
CMS Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure. CMS Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Infrastructure has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CMS Energy has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Infrastructure currently has a consensus target price of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.92%. CMS Energy has a consensus target price of $64.33, indicating a potential upside of 2.23%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Brookfield Infrastructure is more favorable than CMS Energy.
In the previous week, CMS Energy had 10 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for CMS Energy and 4 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure. Brookfield Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat CMS Energy's score of 1.17 indicating that Brookfield Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CMS Energy has a net margin of 13.19% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure's net margin of 0.00%. CMS Energy's return on equity of 12.83% beat Brookfield Infrastructure's return on equity.
CMS Energy received 523 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.42% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 62.59% of users gave CMS Energy an outperform vote.
70.4% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of CMS Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of CMS Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CMS Energy beats Brookfield Infrastructure on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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