Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) Competitors

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

Is PAA or MPLX a better dividend stock?

Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Mplx pays an annual dividend of $3.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. 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. Mplx pays out 90.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Is PAA or MPLX more profitable?

Mplx has a net margin of 36.18% compared to Plains All American Pipeline's net margin of 1.54%. Mplx's return on equity of 31.94% beat Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Plains All American Pipeline	1.54%	11.69%	4.83%
Mplx	36.18%	31.94%	11.42%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in PAA or MPLX?

41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.3% of Mplx shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PAA or MPLX?

Plains All American Pipeline received 70 more outperform votes than Mplx when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.36% of users gave Mplx an outperform vote while only 65.50% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Plains All American Pipeline	Outperform Votes 693 65.50%	Underperform Votes 365 34.50%
Mplx	Outperform Votes 623 72.36%	Underperform Votes 238 27.64%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, PAA or MPLX?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Plains All American Pipeline	$50.07B	0.29	$772M	$0.73	27.95
Mplx	$10.90B	5.09	$4.32B	$4.21	12.88

Does the media favor PAA or MPLX?

In the previous week, Plains All American Pipeline and Plains All American Pipeline both had 14 articles in the media. Plains All American Pipeline's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Mplx's score of 1.03 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	7 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Mplx	10 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate PAA or MPLX?

Plains All American Pipeline currently has a consensus target price of $20.23, suggesting a potential downside of 0.85%. Mplx has a consensus target price of $54.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.43%. Given Mplx's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mplx 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)	6 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.31
Mplx	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.70

Which has more risk & volatility, PAA or MPLX?

Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mplx has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Mplx beats Plains All American Pipeline on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.