Brookfield Infrastructure PartnersBIP.UN.TOPARTIAL BUYMay 10, 2021Stock 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.
ARE-T vs. BIP.UN-T. He is happy with both. In terms of catalysts, ARE-T looks to be the more undervalued of the two. He thinks things will get more positive for it after the pandemic. It is a smaller company and could move farther. BIP.UN-T bought cell phone towers in India and are trying to take over IPL-T. He would average in to either one.