Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) Competitors

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

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of PAA or DINO?

41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.3% of HF Sinclair shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of HF Sinclair shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate PAA or DINO?

Plains All American Pipeline presently has a consensus target price of $18.96, indicating a potential upside of 6.51%. HF Sinclair has a consensus target price of $65.42, indicating a potential upside of 16.34%. Given HF Sinclair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HF Sinclair is more favorable than Plains All American Pipeline.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Plains All American Pipeline	2 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.55
HF Sinclair	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Is PAA or DINO a better dividend stock?

Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. HF Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Plains All American Pipeline pays out 91.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HF Sinclair pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Is PAA or DINO more profitable?

HF Sinclair has a net margin of 4.97% compared to Plains All American Pipeline's net margin of 2.39%. HF Sinclair's return on equity of 17.61% beat Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Plains All American Pipeline	2.39%	10.48%	4.33%
HF Sinclair	4.97%	17.61%	10.01%

Which has more risk and volatility, PAA or DINO?

Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HF Sinclair has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to PAA or DINO?

In the previous week, Plains All American Pipeline had 6 more articles in the media than HF Sinclair. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline and 8 mentions for HF Sinclair. Plains All American Pipeline's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat HF Sinclair's score of 0.47 indicating that Plains All American Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Plains All American Pipeline	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
HF Sinclair	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, PAA or DINO?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Plains All American Pipeline	$48.71B	0.26	$1.23B	$1.39	12.82
HF Sinclair	$31.96B	0.35	$1.59B	$8.30	6.78

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PAA or DINO?

Plains All American Pipeline received 662 more outperform votes than HF Sinclair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.90% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote while only 29.33% of users gave HF Sinclair an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Plains All American Pipeline	Outperform Votes 684 65.90%	Underperform Votes 354 34.10%
HF Sinclair	Outperform Votes 22 29.33%	Underperform Votes 53 70.67%

Summary

HF Sinclair beats Plains All American Pipeline on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.