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PAA vs. EPD, ET, KMI, MPLX, OKE, PAGP, TRGP, WES, RYAAY, and VIK

Should you be buying Plains All American Pipeline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plains All American Pipeline include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Energy Transfer (ET), Kinder Morgan (KMI), Mplx (MPLX), ONEOK (OKE), Plains GP (PAGP), Targa Resources (TRGP), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Ryanair (RYAAY), and Viking (VIK).

Plains All American Pipeline vs. Its Competitors

Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.

Enterprise Products Partners has a net margin of 10.71% compared to Plains All American Pipeline's net margin of 1.54%. Enterprise Products Partners' return on equity of 19.81% beat Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Plains All American Pipeline1.54% 11.69% 4.83%
Enterprise Products Partners 10.71%19.81%7.69%

Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.

41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Plains All American Pipeline pays out 172.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Enterprise Products Partners pays out 81.0% 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 5 consecutive years and Enterprise Products Partners has increased its dividend for 28 consecutive years.

Enterprise Products Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Plains All American Pipeline. Enterprise Products Partners 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Plains All American Pipeline$47.80B0.23$772M$0.8818.09
Enterprise Products Partners$56.22B1.16$5.90B$2.6911.23

In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 15 more articles in the media than Plains All American Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 4 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline. Enterprise Products Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Plains All American Pipeline's score of 0.97 indicating that Enterprise Products Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Plains All American Pipeline
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Enterprise Products Partners
16 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Plains All American Pipeline presently has a consensus target price of $20.73, suggesting a potential upside of 30.24%. Enterprise Products Partners has a consensus target price of $35.82, suggesting a potential upside of 18.56%. Given Plains All American Pipeline's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Plains All American Pipeline is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Plains All American Pipeline
1 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Enterprise Products Partners
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80

Summary

Enterprise Products Partners beats Plains All American Pipeline on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PAA vs. The Competition

MetricPlains All American PipelinePipelines, except natural gas IndustryEnergy SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$11.19B$7.26B$7.65B$21.74B
Dividend Yield9.59%9.31%10.84%3.59%
P/E Ratio21.8026.8272.9332.48
Price / Sales0.230.151,421.5181.21
Price / Cash6.294.8636.7624.53
Price / Book0.980.604.714.59
Net Income$772M$437.50M$4.28B$1.01B
7 Day Performance0.41%0.31%-0.39%1.26%
1 Month Performance-8.59%-9.05%0.71%-0.57%
1 Year Performance-8.27%-8.45%15.96%10.48%

Plains All American Pipeline Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PAA
Plains All American Pipeline
4.1736 of 5 stars
$15.92
0.0%
$20.73
+30.2%
-8.9%$11.19B$47.80B21.804,100
EPD
Enterprise Products Partners
4.5664 of 5 stars
$30.94
+0.5%
$35.75
+15.6%
+3.7%$66.98B$54.76B11.507,800Positive News
ET
Energy Transfer
4.4294 of 5 stars
$16.52
+1.4%
$22.50
+36.2%
+1.6%$56.69B$82.67B12.8016,248Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
KMI
Kinder Morgan
4.6627 of 5 stars
$27.34
+0.9%
$30.88
+13.0%
+9.0%$60.74B$15.97B22.4110,933Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
MPLX
Mplx
3.3181 of 5 stars
$48.64
+1.7%
$55.89
+14.9%
+9.1%$49.56B$11.93B11.555,560
OKE
ONEOK
4.7443 of 5 stars
$69.60
+0.7%
$98.69
+41.8%
-29.7%$43.83B$27.95B13.575,177Positive News
Dividend Announcement
PAGP
Plains GP
4.0521 of 5 stars
$17.00
+0.9%
$20.38
+19.9%
-8.8%$3.36B$47.80B32.084,100Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Downgrade
TRGP
Targa Resources
4.9789 of 5 stars
$151.65
-0.5%
$207.67
+36.9%
-10.0%$32.63B$16.38B21.453,370Positive News
Dividend Announcement
WES
Western Midstream Partners
3.0724 of 5 stars
$37.65
+1.0%
$39.60
+5.2%
-4.2%$14.36B$3.67B11.581,511Positive News
RYAAY
Ryanair
4.8566 of 5 stars
$61.02
+1.1%
$76.00
+24.5%
+37.5%$32.22B$14.66B14.3225,952Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
VIK
Viking
3.2684 of 5 stars
$59.47
+2.2%
$58.93
-0.9%
+54.3%$26.35B$5.33B32.1512,000

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