PAGP vs. PAA, DINO, NS, DKL, GEL, ENB, MPLX, OVV, PR, and CHK
Should you be buying Plains GP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plains GP include Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), HF Sinclair (DINO), NuStar Energy (NS), Delek Logistics Partners (DKL), Genesis Energy (GEL), Enbridge (ENB), Mplx (MPLX), Ovintiv (OVV), Permian Resources (PR), and Chesapeake Energy (CHK). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Plains GP (NYSE:PAGP) and Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE:PAA) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Plains GP currently has a consensus target price of $19.64, indicating a potential upside of 9.03%. Plains All American Pipeline has a consensus target price of $19.23, indicating a potential upside of 13.06%. Given Plains All American Pipeline's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Plains All American Pipeline is more favorable than Plains GP.
Plains All American Pipeline received 257 more outperform votes than Plains GP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.80% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote while only 57.49% of users gave Plains GP an outperform vote.
Plains GP has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% 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.
Plains All American Pipeline has higher revenue and earnings than Plains GP. Plains All American Pipeline is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plains GP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.3% of Plains GP shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.9% of Plains GP 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Plains GP had 1 more articles in the media than Plains All American Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Plains GP and 1 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline. Plains GP's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Plains All American Pipeline's score of 0.79 indicating that Plains GP is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Plains All American Pipeline has a net margin of 2.08% compared to Plains GP's net margin of 0.35%. Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity of 10.53% beat Plains GP's return on equity.
Plains GP pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Plains GP pays out 144.3% 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. Plains All American Pipeline is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Plains All American Pipeline beats Plains GP on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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