Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) Competitors

HF Sinclair (NYSE:DINO) and Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Is DINO or PAA more profitable?

HF Sinclair has a net margin of 4.94% compared to HF Sinclair's net margin of 2.08%. Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity of 15.10% beat HF Sinclair's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HF Sinclair	4.94%	15.10%	8.64%
Plains All American Pipeline	2.08%	10.53%	4.37%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of DINO or PAA?

88.3% of HF Sinclair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of HF Sinclair shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, DINO or PAA?

HF Sinclair has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor DINO or PAA?

Plains All American Pipeline received 664 more outperform votes than HF Sinclair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.80% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote while only 29.87% of users gave HF Sinclair an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
HF Sinclair	Outperform Votes 23 29.87%	Underperform Votes 54 70.13%
Plains All American Pipeline	Outperform Votes 687 65.80%	Underperform Votes 357 34.20%

Do analysts rate DINO or PAA?

HF Sinclair currently has a consensus price target of $64.92, indicating a potential upside of 14.69%. Plains All American Pipeline has a consensus price target of $19.23, indicating a potential upside of 12.72%. Given Plains All American Pipeline's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HF Sinclair is more favorable than Plains All American Pipeline.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HF Sinclair	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Plains All American Pipeline	2 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Is DINO or PAA a better dividend stock?

HF Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. HF Sinclair pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Plains All American Pipeline pays out 109.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HF Sinclair has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Plains All American Pipeline has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Plains All American Pipeline is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, DINO or PAA?

HF Sinclair has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Plains All American Pipeline. HF Sinclair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plains All American Pipeline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HF Sinclair	$31.96B	0.34	$1.59B	$8.08	7.00
Plains All American Pipeline	$48.71B	0.25	$1.23B	$1.16	14.69

Does the media refer more to DINO or PAA?

In the previous week, HF Sinclair and HF Sinclair both had 5 articles in the media. Plains All American Pipeline's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat HF Sinclair's score of 0.94 indicating that HF Sinclair is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
HF Sinclair	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Plains All American Pipeline	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

HF Sinclair beats Plains All American Pipeline on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.