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Hi Dan,

I recently purchased BEP-UN.TO for around 28-29 a share. I bought it because it was a good value play. They are growing 10% FFO per year, their P/FFO is around 7ish (looks like 15% a year returns with no growth and 7 years to get my capital back if P/FFO stays at 7). My question is that I want to know if I’m correct in my assumptions that this is a good business. I know you would say it is but my doubt came because of a mention saying BN is struggling in its infrastructure side of the business. Particularly renewables say a 2.9% increase in DE which is lackluster. Would that mean that what I bought is really a slow growing business or is this DE metric specific to brookfield only and the way the business is complexly structured, the way they manage BEP and the BEP I bought are two different ways (i.e. they do a bunch of stuff with BEP and I just own the business itself).

Thank you for your reply in advance and keep up the good work.

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Asked on February 14, 2025 11:56 am
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Ultimately FFO is a cash flow metric and DE is a profitability metric. Brookfields FFO is not its bottom lines profits. It is pre-tax and excludes things like depreciation and amortization.

There is also the fact that there may be expenses the corporation (BN in this case) faces that Brookfield Renewable doesn't face. Think of financing costs, general administration costs, etc.

But for the most part, these are just apples to oranges numbers. FFO is a pre-tax cash flow metric, whereas distributable earnings is a post-tax profitability metric.

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Posted by Dan Kent
Answered on February 17, 2025 8:10 am