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$17.46 -0.63 (-3.48%)
As of 04/30/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

PAA vs. RYAAY, VIK, BIP, ZTO, MMYT, PAC, ASR, NCLH, TFII, and AAL

Should you be buying Plains All American Pipeline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plains All American Pipeline include Ryanair (RYAAY), Viking (VIK), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (PAC), Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V. (ASR), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), TFI International (TFII), and American Airlines Group (AAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

Plains All American Pipeline vs.

Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) and Ryanair (NASDAQ:RYAAY) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryanair has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Plains All American Pipeline had 2 more articles in the media than Ryanair. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline and 5 mentions for Ryanair. Ryanair's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Plains All American Pipeline's score of 1.26 indicating that Ryanair 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
Ryanair
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Ryanair pays an annual dividend of $0.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Plains All American Pipeline pays out 208.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ryanair pays out 30.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Plains All American Pipeline received 94 more outperform votes than Ryanair when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.57% of users gave Ryanair an outperform vote while only 65.44% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Plains All American PipelineOutperform Votes
693
65.44%
Underperform Votes
366
34.56%
RyanairOutperform Votes
599
69.57%
Underperform Votes
262
30.43%

Plains All American Pipeline presently has a consensus target price of $20.36, indicating a potential upside of 16.63%. Ryanair has a consensus target price of $147.00, indicating a potential upside of 207.15%. Given Ryanair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ryanair is more favorable than Plains All American Pipeline.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Plains All American Pipeline
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.36
Ryanair
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.13

Ryanair has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Plains All American Pipeline. Ryanair 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$50.07B0.25$772M$0.7323.92
Ryanair$13.82B1.84$2.07B$3.2614.68

Ryanair has a net margin of 12.14% compared to Plains All American Pipeline's net margin of 1.54%. Ryanair's return on equity of 21.46% 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%
Ryanair 12.14%21.46%9.91%

41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.7% of Ryanair shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Ryanair beats Plains All American Pipeline on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PAA vs. The Competition

MetricPlains All American PipelinePipelines, except natural gas IndustryEnergy SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$12.73B$23.27B$7.01B$18.97B
Dividend Yield8.30%7.48%10.60%4.02%
P/E Ratio23.9223.1848.5732.71
Price / Sales0.251.5523,204.0027.84
Price / Cash6.297.0035.5017.53
Price / Book1.071.663.494.47
Net Income$772M$1.49B$4.30B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-4.07%-1.67%-1.12%0.50%
1 Month Performance-13.26%-7.84%-6.11%-2.83%
1 Year Performance3.13%4.69%162.68%4.36%

Plains All American Pipeline Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PAA
Plains All American Pipeline
1.4643 of 5 stars
$17.46
-3.5%
$20.36
+16.6%
+1.3%$12.73B$50.07B23.924,100Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
RYAAY
Ryanair
4.108 of 5 stars
$44.75
-2.0%
$147.00
+228.5%
-64.9%$23.80B$13.82B13.7219,100Positive News
VIK
Viking
3.1741 of 5 stars
$37.57
-5.6%
$46.18
+22.9%
N/A$16.21B$5.33B144.509,500
BIP
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
4.7375 of 5 stars
$28.08
+0.6%
$42.50
+51.4%
+12.0%$13.04B$21.04B702.1844,000Earnings Report
News Coverage
ZTO
ZTO Express (Cayman)
4.511 of 5 stars
$18.78
-0.2%
$23.28
+23.9%
-12.0%$11.24B$44.28B12.9523,900Positive News
MMYT
MakeMyTrip
3.0585 of 5 stars
$100.34
-2.9%
$122.50
+22.1%
+58.3%$11.02B$935.76M54.533,340Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Down
PAC
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico
1.48 of 5 stars
$192.06
-1.3%
$200.00
+4.1%
+12.0%$9.70B$33.61B19.091,740Earnings Report
Short Interest ↑
ASR
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V.
1.3732 of 5 stars
$289.93
+0.2%
$310.00
+6.9%
-7.9%$8.70B$31.33B10.931,780Dividend Increase
Short Interest ↑
NCLH
Norwegian Cruise Line
4.7678 of 5 stars
$16.08
-1.8%
$28.22
+75.5%
-15.1%$7.07B$9.48B14.7538,900News Coverage
Gap Down
TFII
TFI International
4.3339 of 5 stars
$76.94
-1.0%
$140.14
+82.1%
-37.6%$6.46B$8.40B15.3925,800Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
AAL
American Airlines Group
4.7856 of 5 stars
$9.09
-3.9%
$16.95
+86.4%
-26.4%$5.98B$54.21B7.97129,700Earnings Report
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
Gap Down

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