DINO vs. PAA, NS, MPLX, AR, FTI, CHK, APA, WFRD, RRC, and MUSA
Should you be buying HF Sinclair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HF Sinclair include Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), NuStar Energy (NS), Mplx (MPLX), Antero Resources (AR), TechnipFMC (FTI), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), APA (APA), Weatherford International (WFRD), Range Resources (RRC), and Murphy USA (MUSA). 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 superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
HF Sinclair has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plains All American Pipeline has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HF Sinclair presently has a consensus price target of $65.42, suggesting a potential upside of 13.30%. Plains All American Pipeline has a consensus price target of $19.15, suggesting a potential upside of 8.21%. Given HF Sinclair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe HF Sinclair is more favorable than Plains All American Pipeline.
88.3% of HF Sinclair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of HF Sinclair shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Plains All American Pipeline shares are held by 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, Plains All American Pipeline had 15 more articles in the media than HF Sinclair. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Plains All American Pipeline and 9 mentions for HF Sinclair. Plains All American Pipeline's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat HF Sinclair's score of 0.41 indicating that Plains All American Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HF Sinclair has a net margin of 4.97% compared to Plains All American Pipeline's net margin of 2.08%. HF Sinclair's return on equity of 17.61% beat Plains All American Pipeline's return on equity.
HF Sinclair pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Plains All American Pipeline pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. HF Sinclair pays out 24.1% 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.
Plains All American Pipeline received 665 more outperform votes than HF Sinclair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.87% of users gave Plains All American Pipeline an outperform vote while only 29.33% of users gave HF Sinclair an outperform vote.
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.
Summary
HF Sinclair beats Plains All American Pipeline on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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