PAA vs. DINO, PAGP, MPLX, CHK, FTI, PR, APA, OVV, AR, and TPL
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), Plains GP (PAGP), Mplx (MPLX), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), TechnipFMC (FTI), Permian Resources (PR), APA (APA), Ovintiv (OVV), Antero Resources (AR), and Texas Pacific Land (TPL). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
HF Sinclair (NYSE:DINO) and Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.
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.
HF Sinclair presently has a consensus target price of $64.92, suggesting a potential upside of 11.14%. Plains All American Pipeline has a consensus target price of $19.23, suggesting a potential upside of 10.71%. Given Plains All American Pipeline's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe HF Sinclair is more favorable than Plains All American Pipeline.
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.
88.3% of HF Sinclair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of HF Sinclair shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term 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 news 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.
HF Sinclair has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HF Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. HF Sinclair pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Plains All American Pipeline has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Plains All American Pipeline is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
HF Sinclair beats Plains All American Pipeline on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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