PAGP vs. PAA, DINO, NS, DKL, GEL, ENB, MPLX, WES, TPL, and OVV
Should you be buying Plains GP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plains GP include Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), HF Sinclair (DINO), NuStar Energy (NS), Delek Logistics Partners (DKL), Genesis Energy (GEL), Enbridge (ENB), Mplx (MPLX), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Texas Pacific Land (TPL), and Ovintiv (OVV). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) and Plains GP (NYSE:PAGP) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Plains All American Pipeline received 257 more outperform votes than Plains GP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.80% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote while only 57.49% of users gave Plains GP an outperform vote.
Plains All American Pipeline has a net margin of 2.08% compared to Plains All American Pipeline's net margin of 0.35%. Plains GP's return on equity of 10.53% beat Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity.
Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plains GP has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Plains GP pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. 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. Plains GP pays out 144.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Plains All American Pipeline has increased 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.
Plains All American Pipeline is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plains GP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.3% of Plains GP shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Plains GP shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Plains All American Pipeline currently has a consensus price target of $19.23, indicating a potential upside of 14.26%. Plains GP has a consensus price target of $19.64, indicating a potential upside of 9.88%. Given Plains GP's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Plains All American Pipeline is more favorable than Plains GP.
In the previous week, Plains All American Pipeline and Plains All American Pipeline both had 1 articles in the media. Plains GP's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Plains All American Pipeline's score of 1.54 indicating that Plains All American Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Plains All American Pipeline beats Plains GP on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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