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- Price
- $37.23 → $36.87(−1.0%)
- Thesis
- removed: Management tracks its added: Brookfield Corporation is hard to value from the outside. It is a parent company that owns a majority stake in a public asset manager, an insurance arm, and a group of operating businesses. Transactions run between all of these pieces. This complexity is the main reason the market prices the stock below management's own estimate of removed: the company's added: its worth, called "plan value." removed: This estimate was $67 per share as added: A second reason is that Brookfield's official profit, reported under IFRS accounting rules, swings much more than the distributable earnings figure management prefers. Investors who focus on reported net income see a weaker, choppier business than the cash results suggest. For the gap to close, the pending merger of removed: June 30, 2026, and added: Brookfield Wealth Solutions, the removed: goal is added: insurance arm, back into the parent needs to removed: reach $140 per share by 2031. The stock trades near $37, far below this estimate. The underlying businesses keep growing. added: close. It also needs to actually simplify the structure, as intended. Fee-bearing capital removed: reached $672 billion, up 19% from a year earlier, and per-share distributable earnings removed: grew 15% in the same quarter. Brookfield is also investing tens of billions of dollars in added: need to keep compounding near their recent pace. Management's own plan-value target, already pushed back one year to 2031, cannot slip again. Brookfield's large AI data removed: centers added: center and nuclear removed: power, two areas with strong long-term demand. If Brookfield keeps growing near its planned pace, the market may start added: power investments also need to removed: trust management's plan-value estimate more, and the discount can close. added: move from announcements into assets that earn money. The removed: market may instead keep pricing added: next test comes at Q3 2026 earnings in removed: a discount, since added: mid-November 2026. The insurance merger is expected to close by the end of 2026. Because Brookfield's added: multi-layer structure is removed: complex, its official IFRS profit is far lower and choppier than its distributable earnings, and management already pushed its $140 added: unlikely to disappear even after the merger, part of this discount may persist beyond 2031, not just until the next plan-value removed: target back by one year. added: milestone.
- Recent events
- Sep added: 21, 2026: Brookfield priced $600 million of senior notes due 2031, at a 5.650% annual interest rate. Sep 17, 2026: At its 2026 Investor Day, Brookfield set a new target: grow plan value per share from about $67 to $140 by 2031. This is the same $140 target management set before, but the target date moved back one year, from 2030 to 2031. Aug 13, 2026: Brookfield reported Q2 2026 results. Distributable earnings before realizations were $1.4 billion, up 15% per share from a year earlier. Fee-bearing capital reached $672 billion, up 19%, after a record $77 billion of fundraising in the quarter. Jul 16, 2026: Shareholders approved a plan to merge Brookfield Corporation and Brookfield Wealth Solutions into one company, to be listed as "BN." The merger is expected to close by the end of 2026. Apr 1, 2026: Brookfield closed its acquisition of Just Group, a UK insurer, for about $3.2 billion. This added roughly 700,000 customers and pushed Brookfield's insurance assets to about $180 billion. Feb 4, 2026: Brookfield named Connor Teskey, age 38, as the new CEO of Brookfield Asset Management. Bruce Flatt remains BAM's chairman and stays on as CEO of Brookfield Corporation.