Net Lease Office Properties (NYSE:NLOP) & Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) Head to Head Comparison

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) and Net Lease Office Properties (NYSE:NLOP) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Net Lease Office Properties”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	$24.01 billion	0.75	$771.00 million	$0.66	58.92
Net Lease Office Properties	$118.92 million	1.50	-$145.26 million	($8.14)	-1.48

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Net Lease Office Properties. Net Lease Office Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

57.9% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.3% of Net Lease Office Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Net Lease Office Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Net Lease Office Properties has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Net Lease Office Properties’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	3.46%	2.54%	0.68%
Net Lease Office Properties	-122.31%	-34.26%	-25.39%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Net Lease Office Properties, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	0	2	8	0	2.80
Net Lease Office Properties	1	0	0	0	1.00

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners currently has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.14%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than Net Lease Office Properties.

Summary

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners beats Net Lease Office Properties on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. owns and operates utilities, transport, midstream, and data businesses in North and South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company's Utilities segment operates approximately 2,900 km of electricity transmission lines; 4,200 km of natural gas pipelines; 8.1 million electricity and natural gas connections; and 0.6 million long-term contracted sub-metering services. This segment also offers heating, cooling, and energy solutions; gas distribution; water heaters; and heating, ventilation, and air conditioner rental, as well as other home services. Its Transport segment offers transportation, storage, and handling services for merchandise goods, commodities, and passengers through a network of approximately 22,000 km of track; 5,500 km of track network; 9,800 km of rail; and 3,300 km of motorways. The company's Midstream segment offers natural gas transmission, gathering and processing, and storage services through approximately 15,000 km of natural gas transmission pipelines; 570 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage; 17 natural gas processing plants; and 10,600 km of gas gathering pipelines, as well as 525,000 tonnes polypropylene production capacity. Its Data segment operates approximately 228,000 operational telecom towers; approximately 54,000 kilometers of fiber optic cables; approximately 1 million fiber-to-the-premise connections; two semiconductor manufacturing facilities; and 70 distributed antenna systems, as well as 135 data centers and 750 megawatts of critical load capacity and an additional approximate 670 megawatts of contracted capacity. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. operates as a subsidiary of Brookfield Corporation.

About Net Lease Office Properties

Net Lease Office Properties (NYSE: NLOP) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust with a portfolio of 59 high-quality office properties, totaling approximately 8.7 million leasable square feet primarily leased to corporate tenants on a single-tenant net lease basis. The vast majority of the office properties owned by NLOP are located in the U.S., with the balance in Europe. The portfolio consists of 62 corporate tenants operating in a variety of industries, generating annualized based rent (ABR) of approximately $145 million. NLOP's business plan is to focus on realizing value for its shareholders primarily through strategic asset management and disposition of its property portfolio over time. Given WPC's extensive knowledge of the portfolio, NLOP is externally managed and advised by wholly owned affiliates of WPC to successfully execute on its business strategy. Over the course of its 50-year history, WPC has developed significant expertise in the single-tenant office real estate sector, including the operation, leasing, acquisition and development of assets through many market cycles, and has a proven track record of execution.