Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. PARR scored 65.2, PSX scored 47.8 — PARR leads.
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PARR
Par Pacific Holdings, Inc.
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing · Quality-Growth
65.2
$81.89 · $4.1B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
17.4
PARR leads
PSX
Phillips 66
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing · Quality-Growth
47.8
$278.18 · $111.5B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestPARR4.8x
Fastest growthPSX+14.4%
Strongest balance sheetPARR0.56
Highest qualityPARR73 / 100
Largest discount to fair valuePARR-56%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
PARR
stronger →← stronger
PSX
73
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
47
50
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
50
76
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
46
PARR is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
PARR
PSX
$412mC
FCF
$6.4bB+
+13.2%B+
Rev
+14.4%B+
0.56B
D/E
0.63B
4.8xA
P/E
15.9xB
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PEG
0.90B+
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
PARR
PSX
56% below
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
29% below
~-10%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~1%/yr
+101%
1-yr DCF upside
+23%
+128%
5-yr DCF upside
+41%
+173%
10-yr DCF upside
+73%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing · market cap $4.1b. 8% off the 52-week high of $89.45. Revenue growing +13%, comfortably above the S&P median. 7 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $86.71 (implying +6% upside).
Moat
ROE 43% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which.
Risk
Jurisdictional + permitting risk — mining and extraction operations concentrate exposure to political stability, royalty regimes, and environmental review timelines that can stall production for years.
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing · market cap $111.5b. Trading near 52-week high of $286.57 — momentum setup, limited technical margin of safety. Revenue growing +14%, comfortably above the S&P median. PEG 0.90 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 19 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $263.11 (implying -5% upside).
Moat
ROE 23% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. $111.5b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
Trading within 3% of the 52-week high — limited technical margin of safety; a momentum reversal would test conviction. Net margin 4.7% is thin — operating leverage cuts both ways; input-cost inflation or pricing pressure hits the bottom line first. Commodity exposure — earnings power tracks the price of the underlying commodity, not management execution. A 15-20% move in the commodity reprices the equity well before fundamentals catch up.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where PARR and PSX diverge
On the headline score the gap is 17.4 points in favor of PARR. The widest single difference is Value, where PARR leads by 29.7 points.
ValuePARR 75.9 · PSX 46.2PARR +29.7
QualityPARR 72.9 · PSX 47.2PARR +25.7
GrowthPARR 50.0 · PSX 50.0level
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is PARR or PSX the better stock?
PARR scores higher: PARR 65.2, PSX 47.8 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do PARR and PSX differ most?
The widest gap is value, where PARR leads by 30 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. PARR also leads quality, while growth is effectively level between them.
How are PARR and PSX scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.