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.
Mplx (NYSE:MPLX) and Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Mplx has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Mplx had 11 more articles in the media than Plains All American Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Mplx and 1 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline. Mplx's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Plains All American Pipeline's score of 0.47 indicating that Plains All American Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mplx presently has a consensus target price of $45.11, suggesting a potential upside of 10.89%. Plains All American Pipeline has a consensus target price of $19.23, suggesting a potential upside of 13.06%. Given Mplx'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.
Mplx pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. 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. 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 has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years and Plains All American Pipeline has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Mplx is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
24.3% of Mplx shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Mplx has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Mplx has a net margin of 34.96% compared to Mplx's net margin of 2.08%. Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity of 31.70% beat Mplx's return on equity.
Summary
Mplx beats Plains All American Pipeline on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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