Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Plains All American Pipeline (NASDAQ: PAA) is a publicly traded energy infrastructure company that provides midstream services for crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs). The company’s core activities include gathering, transporting, storing and marketing hydrocarbons, using an integrated network of pipelines, storage terminals, rail and truck transloading facilities. Plains also offers logistics and marketing services that connect upstream producers with refiners, traders and export markets.

Plains owns and operates a portfolio of pipeline and terminal assets concentrated in major U.S. oil-producing and trading regions. Its system supplies and links production basins and coastal export points, with significant operations tied to hubs such as Cushing, Oklahoma and corridors serving the Permian Basin, Gulf Coast and other Midcontinent and Rockies areas. The company’s service offerings are a mix of fee-based transportation and storage contracts plus commodity handling and marketing activities intended to optimize flows and market access for customers.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Plains All American has grown its footprint through a combination of organic development and strategic acquisitions to build scale in North American midstream logistics. The business serves a broad set of customers including exploration and production companies, refiners and commodity traders, and is managed by an executive team and board of directors responsible for operations, safety, and regulatory compliance. Plains’ activities are focused on maintaining reliable midstream infrastructure and providing market connectivity between U.S. production and domestic or international demand centers.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $23.45 to $23.98
• 50-Day Range: $20.96 to $23.62
• 52-Week Range: $15.69 to $23.98
• Volume: 780,831 shs
• Average Volume: 3.50 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $16.75 billion
• P/E Ratio: 18.10
• Dividend Yield: 7.03%
• Price Target: $22.54
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Plains All American Pipeline Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Plains All American Pipeline scored higher than 49% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 77th out of 131 stocks in the transportation sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 2.2 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Plains All American Pipeline has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.44, and is based on 2 strong buy ratings, 5 buy ratings, 7 hold ratings, and 2 sell ratings.

Downside Risk

Plains All American Pipeline has a consensus price target of $22.54, representing about 5.5% downside from its current price of $23.85.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Plains All American Pipeline has been the subject of 8 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 3.66%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Plains All American Pipeline are expected to grow by 3.66% in the coming year, from $1.64 to $1.70 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Plains All American Pipeline is 18.16, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 44.53.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Plains All American Pipeline is 18.16, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Transportation sector average P/E ratio of about 23.10.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Plains All American Pipeline has a PEG Ratio of 3.04. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Plains All American Pipeline has a P/B Ratio of 1.56. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 2.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

3.26% of the float of Plains All American Pipeline has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Plains All American Pipeline has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 7.22.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Plains All American Pipeline has recently increased by 25.95%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Moderate

Dividend Leadership

Plains All American Pipeline is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 7.21%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend Growth

Plains All American Pipeline has been increasing its dividend for 5 years.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Plains All American Pipeline is 127.48%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on EPS estimates, Plains All American Pipeline will have a dividend payout ratio of 98.24% in the coming year. This indicates that Plains All American Pipeline may not be able to sustain their current dividend.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.1 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.29

News Sentiment

Plains All American Pipeline has a news sentiment score of 0.29. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.43 average news sentiment score of Transportation companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 3 news articles for Plains All American Pipeline this week, compared to 5 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 26 people have searched for PAA on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -10% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

19 people have added Plains All American Pipeline to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 850% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 0.5 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Plains All American Pipeline insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

1.07% of the stock of Plains All American Pipeline is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

41.78% of the stock of Plains All American Pipeline is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Record date for 5/15 Dividend: 5/01/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 5/15 Dividend: 5/01/2026
• Last Earnings: 5/08/2026
• Dividend Payable: 5/15/2026
• Today: 5/21/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Transportation
• Industry: Pipelines, Except Natural Gas
• Sub-Industry: Transportation
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:PAA
• Previous Symbol: NYSE:PAA
• CIK: 1070423
• Web: N/A
• Phone: (713) 654-4100
• Fax: 713-646-4680
• Employees: 3,900
• Year Founded: 1989

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Plains All American Pipeline: $22.54
• High Price Target: $25.00
• Low Price Target: $19.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: -5.9%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.44
• Research Coverage: 16 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $1.31
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 18.27
• Forward P/E Ratio: 14.60
• P/E Growth: 3.04
• Net Income: $1.44 billion
• Net Margins: 2.53%
• Pretax Margin: 2.98%
• Return on Equity: 12.17%
• Return on Assets: 4.54%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 1.02
• Current Ratio: 0.94
• Quick Ratio: 0.88

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $45.26 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.37
• Cash Flow: $3.31 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 7.23
• Book Value: $15.28 per share
• Price / Book: 1.57

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 705,532,000
• Free Float: 697,983,000
• Market Cap: $16.89 billion
• Optionable: N/A
• Beta: 0.51