Uncovering the Key Fundamentals of Brookfield (BN)

By Ken Smith • Thursday, December 19 10:21 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Brookfield over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Engineering & Construction stock at a price of $55.76? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Brookfield has moved 39.1% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 23.7%
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $0.46
Brookfield has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 121.2 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $5.87 and its forward P/E ratio is 9.5
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.04 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Brookfield is part of the Real Estate sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 31.12 and an average P/B of 2.15
BN has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -97.5% and gross profit margins of 0.2%
The company has a free cash flow of $-4060250112, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Brookfield Corporation is an alternative asset manager and REIT/Real Estate Investment Manager firm focuses on real estate, renewable power, infrastructure and venture capital and private equity assets. It manages a range of public and private investment products and services for institutional and retail clients. It typically makes investments in sizeable, premier assets across geographies and asset classes. It invests both its own capital as well as capital from other investors. Within private equity and venture capital, it focuses on acquisition, early ventures, control buyouts and financially distressed, buyouts and corporate carve-outs, recapitalizations, convertible, senior and mezzanine financings, operational and capital structure restructuring, strategic re-direction, turnaround, and under-performing midmarket companies. It invests in both public debt and equity markets. It invests in private equity sectors with focus on Business Services include infrastructure, healthcare, road fuel distribution and marketing, construction and real estate; Industrials include manufacturers of automotive batteries, graphite electrodes, returnable plastic packaging, and sanitation management and development; and Residential/ infrastructure services. It targets companies which likely possess underlying real assets, primarily in sectors such as industrial products, building materials, metals, mining, homebuilding, oil and gas, paper and packaging, manufacturing and forest product sectors. It invests globally with focus on North America including Brazil, the United States, Canada; Europe; and Australia; and Asia-Pacific. The firm considers equity investments in the range of $2 million to $500 million. It has a four-year investment period and a 10-year term with two one-year extensions. The firm prefers to take minority stake and majority stake. Brookfield Corporation was founded in 1997 and based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices across Northern America; South America; Europe; Middle East and Asia.

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