DINO vs. PAA, MMP, PAGP, HEP, MPLX, CHK, WES, EVRG, FTI, and APA
Should you be buying HF Sinclair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HF Sinclair include Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), Magellan Midstream Partners (MMP), Plains GP (PAGP), Holly Energy Partners (HEP), Mplx (MPLX), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Evergy (EVRG), TechnipFMC (FTI), and APA (APA). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
HF Sinclair vs.
Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) and HF Sinclair (NYSE:DINO) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HF Sinclair has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HF Sinclair has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. HF Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Plains All American Pipeline pays out 66.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HF Sinclair pays out 15.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Plains All American Pipeline has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and HF Sinclair has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Plains All American Pipeline is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
41.1% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of HF Sinclair shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of HF Sinclair shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, HF Sinclair had 10 more articles in the media than Plains All American Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for HF Sinclair and 3 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline. HF Sinclair's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Plains All American Pipeline's score of 0.70 indicating that Plains All American Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Plains All American Pipeline received 658 more outperform votes than HF Sinclair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.98% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote while only 25.42% of users gave HF Sinclair an outperform vote.
HF Sinclair has a net margin of 6.87% compared to HF Sinclair's net margin of 2.53%. Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity of 24.58% beat HF Sinclair's return on equity.
Plains All American Pipeline currently has a consensus price target of $16.58, suggesting a potential upside of 5.83%. HF Sinclair has a consensus price target of $63.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.44%. Given Plains All American Pipeline's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HF Sinclair is more favorable than Plains All American Pipeline.
Summary
Plains All American Pipeline beats HF Sinclair on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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