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 better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Plains All American Pipeline presently has a consensus price target of $20.58, suggesting a potential upside of 22.85%. Enterprise Products Partners has a consensus price target of $35.75, suggesting a potential upside of 13.47%. Given Plains All American Pipeline's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Plains All American Pipeline is more favorable than Enterprise Products Partners.
Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Products Partners has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Enterprise Products Partners pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. 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 raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Enterprise Products Partners has raised its dividend for 28 consecutive years.
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.
41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Enterprise Products Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Enterprise Products Partners had 13 more articles in the media than Plains All American Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Enterprise Products Partners and 5 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline. Enterprise Products Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Plains All American Pipeline's score of 0.43 indicating that Enterprise Products Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Enterprise Products Partners beats Plains All American Pipeline on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:PAA) was last updated on 10/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
