PAA vs. MPLX, DINO, PAGP, NS, DKL, GEL, ENB, OKE, HES, and KMI
Should you be buying Plains All American Pipeline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plains All American Pipeline include Mplx (MPLX), HF Sinclair (DINO), Plains GP (PAGP), NuStar Energy (NS), Delek Logistics Partners (DKL), Genesis Energy (GEL), Enbridge (ENB), ONEOK (OKE), Hess (HES), and Kinder Morgan (KMI). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) and Mplx (NYSE:MPLX) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Mplx pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. 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. Mplx pays out 87.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mplx is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mplx has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mplx has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Plains All American Pipeline. Mplx 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.
41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.3% of Mplx shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Mplx has a net margin of 34.96% compared to Plains All American Pipeline's net margin of 2.08%. Mplx's return on equity of 31.70% beat Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity.
In the previous week, Mplx had 13 more articles in the media than Plains All American Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Mplx and 4 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline. Plains All American Pipeline's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Mplx's score of 0.56 indicating that Plains All American Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Plains All American Pipeline presently has a consensus price target of $19.23, indicating a potential upside of 14.81%. Mplx has a consensus price target of $45.11, indicating a potential upside of 12.05%. Given Plains All American Pipeline's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Plains All American Pipeline is more favorable than Mplx.
Plains All American Pipeline received 102 more outperform votes than Mplx when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.25% of users gave Mplx an outperform vote while only 65.80% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote.
Summary
Mplx beats Plains All American Pipeline on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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