Brookfield Corporation (BN 0.56%), one might observe, is not entirely unsuccessful. Over the past thirty-odd years, it has managed a return of approximately nineteen percent annually – a figure which, while not quite miraculous, does rather put the pedestrian eleven percent of the S&P 500 to shame. A diligent investor, depositing a mere two hundred and fifty dollars monthly, could, by now, have accumulated a sum exceeding three million dollars. One hesitates to mention it, naturally, lest one appear vulgar.
The company, with a characteristic lack of modesty, targets a compound return of fifteen percent for its shareholders. A perfectly achievable ambition, one suspects, given the prevailing climate of…well, let us call it financial opportunism. They anticipate, with a degree of confidence bordering on arrogance, a twenty-five percent annual increase in earnings per share over the next five years. This is fuelled, predictably, by their expansion into wealth management – a field which, one imagines, thrives on the anxieties of the comfortably off – and a portfolio of operating companies. They are also, with commendable foresight, investing in the infrastructure of artificial intelligence, a development which promises to either solve all our problems or accelerate our descent into chaos. Either way, a sound investment.
Currently trading at forty-eight dollars per share – a price which, in the grand scheme of things, is neither exorbitant nor particularly inspiring – Brookfield is, according to their own estimates, undervalued. They envision a price of sixty-eight dollars per share in the near future, and, with a boldness that is almost admirable, project a value of one hundred and forty dollars by 2030. A compound annual growth rate of sixteen percent, they assure us. One can only hope they are not relying on the continued gullibility of the market.
Thus, a monthly investment of two hundred and fifty dollars, yielding fifteen percent annually, would, over thirty years, blossom into a respectable one million, four hundred thousand dollars. A sixteen percent return, however, would push that figure beyond one million, seven hundred thousand. One should, of course, remember that past performance is no guarantee of future results, a disclaimer which, one suspects, is routinely ignored by those eager to part with their money.
Whether Brookfield can maintain this level of performance over the next three decades is, naturally, uncertain. But it remains well within their long-term target, and comfortably above the average for most firms. A top stock to buy and hold? One wouldn’t go so far as to recommend it with undue enthusiasm, but it appears, at least for the moment, to be a reasonably prudent allocation of capital.
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