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Plains GP Holdings LP Class APAGPCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Energy›Oil & Gas Pipelines

Holding company owning the general-partner economic interest in Plains All American Pipeline's crude oil and NGL logistics business.

Momentum strong 65
Mkt cap
$5.10B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
97%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$64.5M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
14.7×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-1.3 pp
WACC 6.2%
Hurdle
-11 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
91 days
5 Feb 2027
Close · USD$25.78
1D-2.3%
1W-9.2%
1M-3.0%
3M+2.5%
6M+11.2%
YTD+34.7%
1Y+50.0%
ATR %2.4%
Beta-0.27
52w lowhigh11.0% off high

What Plains GP Holdings LP does

Holding company owning the general-partner economic interest in Plains All American Pipeline's crude oil and NGL logistics business.

Owns the general partner of Plains All American Pipeline and an interest in the partnership, so its income is its share of the cash distributions PAA pays. Those come from fees for moving and storing crude oil and natural gas liquids, much of it under long-term pipeline contracts, plus some trading margin.

Products and services

  • Economic interest in Plains All American Pipeline

Customers

  • Permian producers (via PAA)
  • Refiners/exporters (via PAA)

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Energy infrastructure
  • GP holding structure
  • Crude oil/NGL logistics (Plains All…

What could go right

  • Same drivers as Plains All American (PAA)

What could go wrong

  • Structural complexity/GP-LP alignment
  • Same risks as PAA (crude volumes/pricing)

Moat: narrow (scale, installed base). Holds an economic stake in PAA's Permian crude network; moat mirrors PAA's pipeline scale.

Headquarters: Houston, Texas, US · Founded: 2013 · Employees: 3,900

Named competitors

Plains GP Holdings LP at a glance

Size Plains GP Holdings LP (PAGP) is a United States Energy company (Oil & Gas Pipelines) with a market value of $5.10B, the 1170th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $25.78 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 11.2%, against -8.4% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — highest of 14 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 9.0% over the last twelve months (peer median +10.5%); the operating margin is 2.8% (peer median 23.9%).

Valuation It trades at 14.7× forward earnings against a peer median of 12.9× (6th most expensive of 13).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 3% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +13%, so the hurdle is -11 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 1.3 points below its cost of capital (6.2% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 8.3% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 5 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026PAGP 110Peer median 92
Six months, rebased to 100: Plains GP Holdings LP against the median of its 13 peers (local-currency closes).

Plains GP Holdings LP financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$52.2B$44.3B$48.9B$48.7B$57.2B
Revenue growth—-9%0%-15%—
Gross profit$1.80B$1.74B$1.39B$1.74B$1.65B
EBITDA$2.45B$2.35B$1.95B$2.43B$2.28B
Net income$554M$260M$103M$198M$168M
Free cash flow$2.37B$2.29B$2.04B$2.16B$1.95B
Capital expenditure$601M$643M$448M$559M$455M
Total debt$8.63B$11.5B$7.84B$8.09B$8.82B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Plains GP Holdings LP competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%-10%0%+10%-10%0%+10%GLNGSOBOKNTKDKLAMKEYRGSIDTMNGLWESPAAVH20934PAGP6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Plains GP Holdings LP is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-20%0%+20%10×15×20×25×SOBOKNTKDKLAMKEYRGSIDTMNGLWESPAAVH20934PAGPRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Plains GP Holdings LP is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-25%0%+25%+50%0%50%SOBOKNTKDKLAMRGSINGLWESPAAVH20934PAGPGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Plains GP Holdings LP is the large dot.

Plains GP Holdings LP competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (PAGP vs PAA vs EPD vs ET)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Plains GP Holdings LP PAGP$5.10B+11%+9%3%14.7×2.6%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P PAA$16.9B+10%+9%3%13.9×6.5%
Enterprise Products Partners L.P EPD$80.0B0%+22%12%11.9×1.0%
Energy Transfer LP ET$65.1B-2%+56%9%11.3×2.6%
Mplx LP MPLX$56.6B+4%+7%38%12.0×2.7%

How Plains GP Holdings LP compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Plains GP Holdings LP against its 13 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasurePAGPPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-3.0%-7.7%5th highest of 14
6-month return+11.2%-8.4%highest of 14
Distance from 52-week high-11.0%-20.4%2nd highest of 14
Revenue growth (TTM)+9.0%+10.5%6th lowest of 14
Operating margin2.8%23.9%2nd lowest of 14
Forward P/E14.7×12.9×6th most expensive of 13
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)2.6%6.5%5th least demanding of 12
Growth delivered (Del g)+13.4%+10.5%5th highest of 12
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-10.9 pp-2.8 pp4th least demanding of 12
ROIC minus cost of capital-1.3 pp-1.5 pp7th highest of 14
Net debt / EBITDA3.1×3.6×3rd least indebted of 14

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Plains GP Holdings LP PAGPUnited States$5.10B+11%+9%3%14.7×2.6%+13.4%
Golar LNG GLNGUnited States$4.40B-23%+95%46%n/an/an/a
South Bow SOBO.TOCanada$6.54B-8%-26%24%16.5×13.9%-25.8%
Kinetik KNTKUnited States$7.92B+3%+10%9%25.1×33.0%+63.6%
Delek Logistics Partners LP DKLUnited States$2.99B+1%+30%15%11.8×13.0%+12.2%
Antero Midstream AMUnited States$8.97B-9%+8%55%15.1×2.5%+5.3%
Keyera KEY.TOCanada$10.6B0%0%11%17.4×n/an/a
Rockpoint Gas Storage RGSI.TOCanada$2.26B-16%+15%75%8.7×-3.8%+21.7%
DT Midstream DTMUnited States$11.6B-20%+13%50%23.5×12.4%+10.5%
NGL Energy Partners LP NGLUnited States$1.87B-8%-22%12%11.9×1.2%-9.6%
Western Midstream Partners, LP WESUnited States$16.5B-8%+18%39%9.9×3.2%+8.6%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P PAAUnited States$16.9B+10%+9%3%13.9×6.5%+13.4%
Friedrich Vorwerk VH2.DEGermany$1.50B-5%+22%19%11.1×-8.0%+19.3%
Sinopec Kantons 0934.HKHong Kong$1.31B+3%+10%27%9.2×7.7%+1.8%

Questions

Who are Plains GP Holdings LP's main competitors?
Named competitors: Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Energy Transfer (ET), MPLX (MPLX). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Golar LNG (GLNG), South Bow (SOBO.TO), Kinetik (KNTK), Delek Logistics Partners LP (DKL), Antero Midstream (AM), Keyera (KEY.TO).
Is Plains GP Holdings LP expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 14.7× against a peer median of 12.9×, 6th most expensive of 13 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 3% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +13%, so the hurdle is -11 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Plains GP Holdings LP stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +11.2% against -8.4% for the median peer; over one year +50.0%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.