Brookfield Infrastructure PartnersBIP.UN.TOCOMMENTMay 23, 2017Stock 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.
Brookfield Infrastructure (BIP.UN-T) or Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS-T) for better growth? Financials is a group that he has been in favour of for some time, but prefers US to Canadian. If he had to buy one of these 2, he would probably buy this one. It is an interesting collection of assets, but might underperform global markets because of being a more defensive play. As a yield play, it is kind of attractive.