Brookfield Infrastructure PartnersBIP.UN.TOTOP PICKAug 02, 2013Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 26, 2026. Market Open.
You get paid to wait. Steady compounder. $1.7B in new projects. Inflation-linked cashflows. AFFO growth of 11%, trades at 10.5x. Good one to own amidst all the cross-currents of markets today. A "when" story, not "if". Yield is 4.81%; very safe payout ratio of 56%.
(Analysts’ price target is $60.27)If you have any withholding tax in a cash (taxable) account, because the structure is set up not in Canada, you should be able to claim it back on your tax return. So it's better to have in a taxable account than in a TFSA or RRSP, where you can't claim it back.
He owns BN instead.
Not a fan of this. They pay a dividend and reinvest capital into new projects, but this makes them dependent on generating capital gains and flipping projects. There's no real free cash flow as you see in a typical utility. Also, they are very interest rate-sensitive; they need to constantly borrow money to develop new projects.
Global utility/infrastructure name. Have assets in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Also, into rail, storage and an Australian terminal. He sees them taking assets out of low single digit ROE investments and putting them into mid-teen ROE assets. Has delivered a 20% compound annual return over the last 5 years and grown its distribution by over 7% a year for the last 3 years. 4.67% yield.