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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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This page (NYSE:PAA) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff