Understanding the Recent Fluctuations of Plains All American Pipeline LP’s (PAA) Stock

In the past week, PAA stock has gone down by -8.88%, with a monthly decline of -9.62% and a quarterly plunge of -4.40%. The volatility ratio for the week is 2.57%, and the volatility levels for the last 30 days are 1.98% for Plains All American Pipeline LP The simple moving average for the last 20 days is -9.64% for PAA stock, with a simple moving average of 0.52% for the last 200 days.

Is It Worth Investing in Plains All American Pipeline LP (NASDAQ: PAA) Right Now?

Plains All American Pipeline LP (NASDAQ: PAA) has a price-to-earnings ratio that is above its average at 15.20x. The stock has a 36-month beta value of 1.57. Opinions on the stock are mixed, with 6 analysts rating it as a “buy,” 6 as “overweight,” 11 as “hold,” and 0 as “sell.”

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The public float for PAA is 456.16M, and at present, short sellers hold a 2.75% of that float. On August 05, 2024, the average trading volume of PAA was 2.19M shares.

PAA) stock’s latest price update

Plains All American Pipeline LP (NASDAQ: PAA)’s stock price has plunge by -4.02relation to previous closing price of 17.42. Nevertheless, the company has seen a -8.88% plunge in its stock price over the last five trading sessions. seekingalpha.com reported 2024-08-02 that Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NASDAQ:PAA ) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call August 2, 2024 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Blake Fernandez – Vice President, Investor Relations Willie Chiang – Chairman and CEO Al Swanson – Executive Vice President and CFO Jeremy Goebel – Executive Vice President and CCO Chris Chandler – Executive Vice President and COO Conference Call Participants Tristan Richardson – Scotiabank Michael Blum – Wells Fargo Jeremy Tonet – JPMorgan Securities Manav Gupta – UBS Keith Stanley – Wolfe Research Spiro Dounis – Citi Neel Mitra – Bank of America AJ O’Donnell – TPH Sunil Sibal – Seaport Global Neal Dingmann – Truist Securities John Mackay – Goldman Sachs Operator Good day and thank you for standing by.

Analysts’ Opinion of PAA

Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for PAA stocks, with Scotiabank repeating the rating for PAA by listing it as a “Sector Outperform.” The predicted price for PAA in the upcoming period, according to Scotiabank is $23 based on the research report published on April 08, 2024 of the current year 2024.

Goldman, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see PAA reach a price target of $13.50. The rating they have provided for PAA stocks is “Sell” according to the report published on October 06th, 2023.

Barclays gave a rating of “Underweight” to PAA, setting the target price at $15 in the report published on September 25th of the previous year.

PAA Trading at -5.81% from the 50-Day Moving Average

After a stumble in the market that brought PAA to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -12.78% of loss for the given period.

Volatility was left at 1.98%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 2.57%, as shares sank -9.88% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -3.02% lower at present.

During the last 5 trading sessions, PAA fell by -8.99%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by +7.19% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $18.41. In addition, Plains All American Pipeline LP saw 10.36% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further gains.

Insider Trading

Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at PAA starting from Goebel Jeremy L., who sale 35,000 shares at the price of $15.58 back on Nov 21 ’23. After this action, Goebel Jeremy L. now owns 279,223 shares of Plains All American Pipeline LP, valued at $545,321 using the latest closing price.

Stock Fundamentals for PAA

Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:

  • 0.03 for the present operating margin
  • 0.04 for the gross margin

The net margin for Plains All American Pipeline LP stands at 0.02. The total capital return value is set at 0.06. Equity return is now at value 9.91, with 3.76 for asset returns.

Based on Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA), the company’s capital structure generated 0.41 points at debt to capital in total, while cash flow to debt ratio is standing at 0.3. The debt to equity ratio resting at 0.7. The interest coverage ratio of the stock is -141.9.

Currently, EBITDA for the company is 2.48 billion with net debt to EBITDA at 0.82. When we switch over and look at the enterprise to sales, we see a ratio of 0.28. The receivables turnover for the company is -8.76for trailing twelve months and the total asset turnover is 1.81. The liquidity ratio also appears to be rather interesting for investors as it stands at 1.00.

Conclusion

To sum up, Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA) has seen a mixed performance recently. Analysts have differing views on the stock, with some seeing it as a “buy” and others as a “hold”. It’s important to note that the stock is currently trading at a significant distance from its 50-day moving average and its 52-week high.

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