PAA vs. DINO, MMP, PAGP, MPLX, WES, OVV, APA, DCP, TPL, and CHK
Should you be buying Plains All American Pipeline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plains All American Pipeline include HF Sinclair (DINO), Magellan Midstream Partners (MMP), Plains GP (PAGP), Mplx (MPLX), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Ovintiv (OVV), APA (APA), DCP Midstream (DCP), Texas Pacific Land (TPL), and Chesapeake Energy (CHK). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Plains All American Pipeline vs.
HF Sinclair (NYSE:DINO) and Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, profitability, dividends, earnings and media sentiment.
87.7% of HF Sinclair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.3% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of HF Sinclair shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% 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 is poised for long-term growth.
HF Sinclair has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Plains All American Pipeline received 656 more outperform votes than HF Sinclair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.20% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote while only 25.53% of users gave HF Sinclair an outperform vote.
In the previous week, HF Sinclair had 1 more articles in the media than Plains All American Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for HF Sinclair and 2 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline. Plains All American Pipeline's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat HF Sinclair's score of 0.91 indicating that Plains All American Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HF Sinclair has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HF Sinclair currently has a consensus target price of $59.33, suggesting a potential upside of 28.87%. Plains All American Pipeline has a consensus target price of $15.68, suggesting a potential upside of 12.96%. Given HF Sinclair's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HF Sinclair is more favorable than Plains All American Pipeline.
HF Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. HF Sinclair pays out 12.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Plains All American Pipeline pays out 70.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. HF Sinclair has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Plains All American Pipeline has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Plains All American Pipeline is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
HF Sinclair has a net margin of 8.13% compared to Plains All American Pipeline's net margin of 2.18%. HF Sinclair's return on equity of 32.56% beat Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity.
Summary
Plains All American Pipeline beats HF Sinclair on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PAA and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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