DINO vs. PAA, PAGP, NS, MPLX, APA, AR, FTI, CHK, WFRD, and YPF
Should you be buying HF Sinclair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HF Sinclair include Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), Plains GP (PAGP), NuStar Energy (NS), Mplx (MPLX), APA (APA), Antero Resources (AR), TechnipFMC (FTI), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Weatherford International (WFRD), and YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) and HF Sinclair (NYSE:DINO) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
HF Sinclair has a net margin of 4.94% compared to HF Sinclair's net margin of 2.08%. Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity of 15.10% beat HF Sinclair's return on equity.
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. 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of HF Sinclair shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HF Sinclair has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Plains All American Pipeline currently has a consensus target price of $19.23, suggesting a potential upside of 10.71%. HF Sinclair has a consensus target price of $64.92, suggesting a potential upside of 11.14%. Given Plains All American Pipeline's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HF Sinclair is more favorable than Plains All American Pipeline.
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.
Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. HF Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Plains All American Pipeline pays out 109.5% 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 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Plains All American Pipeline has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and HF Sinclair has raised 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.
In the previous week, HF Sinclair had 6 more articles in the media than Plains All American Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for HF Sinclair and 5 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline. HF Sinclair's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Plains All American Pipeline's score of 0.63 indicating that Plains All American Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Plains All American Pipeline received 664 more outperform votes than HF Sinclair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.80% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote while only 29.87% of users gave HF Sinclair an outperform vote.
Summary
HF Sinclair beats Plains All American Pipeline on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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