Brookfield Infrastructure PartnersBIP.UN.TOCOMMENTMay 18, 2016Stock 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.
Great company. They are deriving growth all over the planet. They will deploy capital in places where things are bad and capital is fleeing. That is how they get assets at a discount to fair value, and how they generate growth. The assets they buy often come with long-term contracts providing stable and growing cash flows. Also, have organic growth investment opportunities. Currently they are interested in Brazil, where the economy is pretty bad. 5.2% dividend yield.