Brookfield Infrastructure PartnersBIP.UN.TOBUY ON WEAKNESSOct 17, 2025Stock 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.
Likes that BN continues to source deals for them to do. Well run. Lots of infrastructure opportunities to support both energy and data centres.
Best to put in a registered account if you can. (There's a chance in the future that the Brookfield structure gets harmonized, this stock should pop, and a registered account will protect any upside.) It'll also protect the higher yield along the way.