Critical Review: South Bow (SOBO) and Its Competitors

South Bow (NYSE:SOBO) is one of 9,363 publicly-traded companies in the “” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare South Bow to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for South Bow and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
South Bow	2	4	1	2	2.33
South Bow Competitors	4121	23115	28926	686	2.46

South Bow presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.70%. As a group, “” companies have a potential upside of 614.05%. Given South Bow’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe South Bow has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Dividends

South Bow pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. As a group, “” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.5% and pay out 105.2% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

53.3% of shares of all “” companies are owned by institutional investors. 16.2% of shares of all “” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares South Bow and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
South Bow	N/A	N/A	N/A
South Bow Competitors	$7.41 billion	$245.83 million	-61.76

South Bow’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than South Bow.

Profitability

This table compares South Bow and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
South Bow	N/A	N/A	N/A
South Bow Competitors	-1,169.23%	-15.43%	-3.32%

About South Bow

South Bow Corp is a strategic liquids pipeline company. It is a new liquids-focused midstream infrastructure company. South Bow Corp is based in Canada.