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Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

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

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 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sector × region Energy in US: −3.0% week · −0.0% month · +15.9% quarter · +11.0% 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 → 2026-09-27
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta −0.59 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How PAA has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year −0.59 — tends to move against bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Plains All American Pipeline LP moved −0.59% on average · correlation −0.28 · higher than 3% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months −0.85 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days +0.48% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.82% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Oil & Gas Midstream · US · 6 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Oil & Gas Midstream · US

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

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

Company snapshot — Plains All American Pipeline LP

PAA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet 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
Closelooknet'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 Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet company score reads 53/100 composite (momentum 72, quality 26, valuation 69) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’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.

The Street on this name 5 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by UBS, 2026-09-21

The Street on this name

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

  • Price target UBS — target 28 from 27 Target raised to $28 from $27 (+10.8% to spot) 2026-09-21
  • Price target Mizuho — target 30 Target set to $30 (+18.2% to spot) 2026-09-21
  • Price target Barclays — target 24 from 23 Target raised to $24 from $23 (-5.4% to spot) 2026-09-21

5 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 5 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 6.69%, 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 6.69% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • 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.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

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 Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is PAA in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Plains All American Pipeline LP is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

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

53 out of 100, with momentum 72, quality 26 and valuation 69 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-26. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does PAA trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -0.7% vs the 50-day and +14% vs the 200-day average, 7.5% below the 52-week high and +68.5% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Plains All American Pipeline LP trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Plains All American Pipeline LP had a beta of −0.59 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move against bonds, higher than 3% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved +0.48% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

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. Closelooknet'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 Closelooknet 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 6.69% on the 2026-09-25 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 Closelooknet wire is a price target by UBS on 2026-09-21 (target 28 from 27). 5 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 5 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Oil & Gas Midstream, then Energy. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet 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.