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Company snapshot — Plains All American Pipeline LP

PAA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Plains All American Pipeline moves and stores crude oil and natural gas liquids across the United States and Canada, working through a Crude Oil segment and an NGL segment. The crude side gathers and transports oil by pipeline, truck, barge and railcar, and offers terminals and storage alongside trading activity. The NGL side processes natural gas into components such as ethane, propane and butane, then stores, transports and terminals them for heating, fuel and industrial buyers. It is a Houston-based midstream partnership operating under Plains GP Holdings.
Where it sits in the stack
Plains carries no seat in our index, so it sits in the diary's broader Energy universe, in the Oil & Gas Midstream sleeve alongside other US pipeline and terminal operators. It is a service provider to upstream producers rather than a constraint inside any technology stack we track.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Energy names based in the US, including Permian Resources, Cenovus, Ecopetrol, YPF, BP, Petrobras, Frontline and Venture Global. The market also names Enterprise Products Partners as a comparable midstream operator.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, with momentum the strongest of its seven modules and quality the weakest; it holds no seat in our index and has not appeared in the diary's quotes.
What the diary watches
Whether crude oil and NGL throughput across its gathering and pipeline network shifts with producer activity, since that volume, not price alone, sets the segment's underlying trend.

Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA) trades on US exchanges, classified under Energy.

The Closelook company score reads 54/100 composite (momentum 80, quality 27, valuation 67) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for PAA, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 2 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Scotiabank, 2026-09-10

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for PAA from the Closelook wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Scotiabank — target 27 from 24 Target raised to $27 from $24 (+4.4% to spot) 2026-09-10
  • Price target Morgan Stanley — target 26 from 25 Target raised to $26 from $25 (+7.6% to spot) 2026-08-18

2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against Oil & Gas Midstream · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Oil & Gas Midstream · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against PAA on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 6.44%, quarterly · buybacks 341 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What PAA pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.63 USD per share · a 6.44% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +43.2% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.14 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.42 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-31
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.52 USD · 2026: 1.25 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-01-31
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 1.30 bn USD 103% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 341 m USD 1.9% of today's market value
  • Share count +0.3% in FY2025 49 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 1.64 bn USD · 71% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Energy in US: −1.3% week · +1.1% month · +20.5% quarter · +16.0% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLE.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA)?

Plains All American Pipeline LP trades as PAA on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Energy in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is PAA in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Plains All American Pipeline LP is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Plains All American Pipeline LP's Closelook composite score?

54 out of 100, with momentum 80, quality 27 and valuation 67 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does PAA trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +3.8% vs the 50-day and +19.6% vs the 200-day average, 3.9% below the 52-week high and +75% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Plains All American Pipeline LP do?

Plains All American Pipeline moves and stores crude oil and natural gas liquids across the United States and Canada, working through a Crude Oil segment and an NGL segment. The crude side gathers and transports oil by pipeline, truck, barge and railcar, and offers terminals and storage alongside trading activity. The NGL side processes natural gas into components such as ethane, propane and butane, then stores, transports and terminals them for heating, fuel and industrial buyers. Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Energy names based in the US, including Permian Resources, Cenovus, Ecopetrol, YPF, BP, Petrobras, Frontline and Venture Global. The market also names Enterprise Products Partners as a comparable midstream operator.

Where does Plains All American Pipeline LP sit in the AI build-out?

Plains carries no seat in our index, so it sits in the diary's broader Energy universe, in the Oil & Gas Midstream sleeve alongside other US pipeline and terminal operators. It is a service provider to upstream producers rather than a constraint inside any technology stack we track. It carries a Closelook score, with momentum the strongest of its seven modules and quality the weakest; it holds no seat in our index and has not appeared in the diary's quotes.

Does Plains All American Pipeline LP pay a dividend?

Plains All American Pipeline LP has paid 1.63 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 6.44% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.42 USD on 2026-07-31. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 1.30 bn USD in dividends and bought back 341 m USD of its own shares, 71% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 0.3% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Plains All American Pipeline LP recently?

The most recent analyst action on Plains All American Pipeline LP on the Closelook wire is a price target by Scotiabank on 2026-09-10 (target 27 from 24). 2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelook readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for PAA, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Oil & Gas Midstream, then Energy. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.