Financial Review: DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE) and Brookfield Infrastructure (NYSE:BIPC)

Brookfield Infrastructure (NYSE:BIPC) and DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.

Risk and Volatility

Brookfield Infrastructure has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DTE Energy has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Brookfield Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. DTE Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. DTE Energy pays out 73.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Infrastructure has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and DTE Energy has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Brookfield Infrastructure and DTE Energy, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Brookfield Infrastructure	2	0	0	0	1.00
DTE Energy	0	5	9	1	2.73

Brookfield Infrastructure presently has a consensus price target of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.14%. DTE Energy has a consensus price target of $158.62, suggesting a potential upside of 14.81%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Brookfield Infrastructure is more favorable than DTE Energy.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Brookfield Infrastructure and DTE Energy”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Brookfield Infrastructure	$3.70 billion	1.32	N/A	N/A	N/A
DTE Energy	$15.81 billion	1.82	$1.46 billion	$6.32	21.86

DTE Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure.

Profitability

This table compares Brookfield Infrastructure and DTE Energy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Brookfield Infrastructure	N/A	N/A	N/A
DTE Energy	8.00%	12.19%	2.74%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

70.4% of Brookfield Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of DTE Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of DTE Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

DTE Energy beats Brookfield Infrastructure on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Brookfield Infrastructure

Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates regulated natural gas transmission systems in Brazil. The company also engages in the regulated gas and electricity distribution operations in the United Kingdom; and electricity transmission and distribution, as well as gas distribution in Australia. It operates approximately 2,000 kilometers of natural gas transportation pipelines in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Minas Gerais; 4.3 million gas and electricity connections; and a global fleet of approximately 7 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) intermodal containers under long-term contracts. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P.

About DTE Energy

DTE Energy Company engages in the utility operations. The company's Electric segment generates, purchases, distributes, and sells electricity to various residential, commercial, and industrial customers in southeastern Michigan. It generates electricity through coal-fired plants, hydroelectric pumped storage, and nuclear plants, as well as wind and solar assets. This segment owns and operates distribution substations and line transformers. The company's Gas segment purchases, stores, transports, distributes, and sells natural gas to various residential, commercial, and industrial customers throughout Michigan; and sells storage and transportation capacity. Its DTE Vantage segment offers metallurgical and petroleum coke to steel and other industries; and power generation, steam production, chilled water production, and wastewater treatment services, as well as air supplies compressed air to industrial customers. Its Energy Trading segment engages in power, natural gas, and environmental marketing and trading; structured transactions; and the optimization of contracted natural gas pipeline transportation and storage positions. The company was founded in 1849 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.