Analyzing Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE:BEP) and Centuri (NYSE:CTRI)

Centuri (NYSE:CTRI) and Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE:BEP) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Centuri and Brookfield Renewable Partners, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Centuri	2	1	3	0	2.17
Brookfield Renewable Partners	0	4	11	1	2.81

Centuri currently has a consensus target price of $26.40, indicating a potential downside of 5.40%. Brookfield Renewable Partners has a consensus target price of $34.93, indicating a potential upside of 20.24%. Given Brookfield Renewable Partners’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Renewable Partners is more favorable than Centuri.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Centuri and Brookfield Renewable Partners”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Centuri	$2.64 billion	1.05	-$6.72 million	$0.03	930.27
Brookfield Renewable Partners	$5.88 billion	1.51	-$181.00 million	($0.86)	-33.78

Centuri has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Renewable Partners. Brookfield Renewable Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centuri, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Centuri has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Renewable Partners has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Centuri and Brookfield Renewable Partners’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Centuri	0.09%	6.37%	1.71%
Brookfield Renewable Partners	3.52%	0.66%	0.23%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

63.2% of Brookfield Renewable Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centuri shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Brookfield Renewable Partners beats Centuri on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Centuri

Centuri Holdings, Inc. operates as a utility infrastructure services company in North America. It offers gas utility services, including maintenance, repair, installation, and replacement services for natural gas local distribution utility companies with focus on the modernization of infrastructure. The company also provides electric utility services comprising design, maintenance and repair, upgrade, and expansion services for transmission and distribution infrastructure. Its customers include electric, gas, and combination utility companies, as well as serves end markets, such as renewable energy and 5G datacom. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Centuri Holdings, Inc. is a subsidiary of Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.

About Brookfield Renewable Partners

Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. owns a portfolio of renewable power generating facilities primarily in North America, Colombia, and Brazil. The company generates electricity through hydroelectric, wind, solar, distributed generation, and pumped storage, as well as renewable natural gas, carbon capture and storage, recycling, cogeneration biomass, nuclear services, and power transformation. Brookfield Renewable Partners Limited operates as the general partner of Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. The company was formerly known as Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P. and changed its name to Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. in May 2016. Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. was founded in 1999 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P operates as a subsidiary of Brookfield Corporation.