A History of Outperforming Analyst Forecasts and Beating the Odds: Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA)

With 4.82 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.21 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas Midstream company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $17.945 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $17.1. The 52-week range on PAA shows that it touched its highest point at $19.17 and its lowest point at $14.25 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $20.59. With its current market cap of 12.13 billion, PAA has annualized dividend of $1.22 while the current yield stands at 7.05%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.57.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of PAA was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.19%, but this was down by -2.04% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -2.75% while six-month performance fell -0.06%. The stock gained 13.89% in the past year, while it has gained 14.19% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PAA yields 1.10 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.41. For the next quarter, that number is 0.30. This implies an EPS growth rate of -5.04% for this year and 4.85% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -1.70% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -12.41%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 701.01 million PAA shares are outstanding with a float of 454.89 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-13, short shares totaled 10.27 million, which was 146.0 higher than short shares on 1723680000. In addition to Mr. Wilfred C.W. Chiang as the firm’s CEO & Chairman of Plains All American GP LLC, Mr. Harry N. Pefanis serves as its President & Director of Plains All American GP LLC.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.42240003 of PAA’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-06-30, PAA reported revenue of $12933000000.0 and operating income of $375000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $757000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.26.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PAA since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.