Plains All American Pipeline LP (Plains All American Pipeline LP) Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based)

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For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Plains All American Pipeline LP's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based), along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

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For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Plains All American Pipeline LP's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Plains All American Pipeline LP's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) falls into.

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Plains All American Pipeline LP Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Calculation

This is the intrinsic value calculated from the Discounted Earnings model with default parameters. The calculation method is the same as Discounted Cash Flow model except earnings are used in the calculation instead of free cash flow. This is the default method of calculation with GuruFocus DCF calculator.

Usually a two-stage model is used in calculating the intrinsic value with discounted cash flow model. The first stage is called growth stage; the second is called the terminal stage. In the growth stage the company grows at a faster rate. Because it cannot grow at that rate forever, a lower rate is used for the terminal stage.

GuruFocus DCF calculator is a two-stage model. The default values are defined as:

1. Discount Rate: d = 11%
A reasonable discount rate assumption should be at least the long term average return of the stock market, which can be estimated from risk free rate plus risk premium of stock market. GuruFocus uses 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate as the risk-free rate and rounded up to the nearest integer. It is updated daily. The current risk-free rate is 4.62%. Please go to Economic Indicators page for more information. Please note that we use the 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate of the United States as default. Then we added a risk premium of 6% to get the estimated discount rate. Some investors use their expected rate of return, which is also reasonable. A typical discount rate can be anywhere between 6% - 20%.

2. Growth Rate in the growth stage: g1 = 5%
The Growth Rate in the growth stage is initially set as the default 10-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate. In cases where the 10-year growth rate is unavailable, it defaults to using the 5-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate. If both the 10-year and 5-year growth rates are unavailable, the system defaults to the 3-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate.
However, it's important to note that there is a growth rate range. If the calculated growth rate exceeds 20%, it will be capped at 20%. Conversely, if the calculated growth rate falls below 5%, it will be adjusted to 5% to maintain a reasonable range.
=> Plains All American Pipeline LP's average EPS without NRI Growth Rate in the past 10 years was -2.60%, which is less than 5%. GuruFocus defaults => Growth Rate: 5%

3. Years of Growth Stage: y1 = 10

4. Terminal Growth Rate: g2 = 4%

5. Years of Terminal Growth: y2 = 10

6. EPS without NRI: eps without nri = $1.182.
GuruFocus DCF calculator is actually a Discounted Earnings calculator, EPS without NRI is used as the default. The reason we are doing this is we found that historically stock prices are more correlated with earnings than free cash flow.

All of the default settings can be changed and the results are calculated automatically.

Plains All American Pipeline LP's Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) for today is calculated as:

set x = (1+g1)/(1+d) = (1+0.05)/(1+0.11) = 0.94594594594595
and y = (1+g2)/(1+d) = (1+0.04)/(1+0.11) = 0.93693693693694

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Plains All American Pipeline LP  (NAS:PAA) Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Explanation

Unlike valuation methods such as Net Current Asset Value, Tangible Book Value per Share, Graham Number, Median Ratio etc, discounted Cash Flow model evaluates the companies based on their future earnings power instead of their assets.

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Be Aware

What you need to know about Discounted Earnings model:

1. The Discounted Earnings model evaluates a company based on its future earnings power
2. Growth is taken into account; therefore a faster growth company is worth more if everything else is the same.
3. Since we are projecting future growth, it is assumed that the company will grow at the same rate as it did during the past 10 years. Therefore this model works better for the companies that are relatively consistent performers.
4. The Discounted Earnings model works poorly for inconsistent performers like cyclicals.
5. Your expected return from the investment is a reasonable discount rate assumption.
6. A larger margin of safety should be required for companies with less predictable businesses.

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Plains All American Pipeline LP Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Related Terms

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Plains All American Pipeline LP (Plains All American Pipeline LP) Business Description

Executives

Jeremy L. Goebel	officer: EVP & CCO	333 CLAY STREET, SUITE 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Ellen Desanctis	director	12326 OLD OAKS, HOUSTON TX 77024
Willie Cw Chiang	director, officer: Chairman & CEO	370 17TH STREET, SUITE 2775, DENVER CO 80202
Chris Herbold	officer: Sr. VP Finance and CAO	333 CLAY STREET, SUITE 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Richard K. Mcgee	officer: EVP, General Counsel & Sec.	333 CLAY STREET, SUITE 1500, HOUSTON TX 77002
Al Swanson	officer: EVP & CFO	333 CLAY STREET, # 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Kevin S Mccarthy	director	C/O KAYNE ANDERSON CAPITAL ADVISORS, LP, 1800 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SECOND FLOOR, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Chris R. Chandler	officer: EVP & COO	333 CLAY STREET, SUITE 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Harry N Pefanis	director, officer: President	333 CLAY STREET, STE 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Plains Gp Holdings Lp	director, 10 percent owner	333 CLAY ST, SUITE 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Paa Gp Holdings Llc	director, 10 percent owner	333 CLAY ST, SUITE 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Plains All American Gp Llc	director, 10 percent owner	333 CLAY STREET, SUITE 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Plains Aap, L.p.	director, 10 percent owner	333 CLAY STREET, SUITE 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Chris Temple	director	3953 MAPLE AVENUE, SUITE 180, DALLAS TX 75219
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Lp	director, other: See remarks	2121 AVENUE OF THE STARS, 9TH FLOOR, LOS ANGELES CA 90067