Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, infrastructure asset operator Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE: BIP ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Brookfield Infrastructure's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Brookfield Infrastructure facts
| Headquarters (Founded) |
Hamilton, Bermuda (2007) |
| Market Cap |
$2.75 billion |
| Industry |
Electric utilities |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$888 million |
| Management |
CEO Samuel Pollock
CFO John Stinebaugh
|
| Trailing-12-Month Operating Margin |
30.5% |
| Cash/Debt |
$264 million / $4.8 billion |
| Dividend Yield |
5.1% |
Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 99% of the 792 members who have rated Brookfield Infrastructure believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include Laice1 and GingersBread.
Just last week, Laice1 tapped Brookfield Infrastructure as a solid income opportunity: "[G]enuine value play. ... [A] dividend of just over 5%. Has fingers in many different pies, what's not to like?"
In fact, Brookfield Infrastructure even sports a cheapish P/E of 5.9. That represents a clear discount to other highly rated infrastructure stocks like Fluor (NYSE: FLR ) (33.4), Foster Wheeler (Nasdaq: FWLT ) (24.2), and McDermott International (NYSE: MDR ) (22.8).
CAPS member GingersBread elaborates on the bull case:
Brookfield is a well-diversified infrastructure company with smart management and good long-term growth prospects. ... There operations are well-diversified globally, from railroads in Australia to timber fields in Canada, and from ports in Europe to utilities in Chile. The company uses stable cash-generating businesses like urban utilities (literal monopolies) to fuel high-growth operations like airport and railroad construction that service emerging markets. Significant debt and leveraging will likely prove beneficial to the company long-term, but nonetheless represents a possible risk to the business.
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