MLPs Offer High Yields with Tax Simplification
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Source: Fool
- Attractive High Yields: Currently, Enterprise Products Partners and Energy Transfer yield 6.7% and 7.4%, respectively, significantly higher than the S&P 500's 1.1% dividend yield, drawing in investors seeking passive income.
- Tax Simplification Advantage: The Alerian MLP ETF offers an 8% distribution yield and simplifies tax reporting by processing K-1 forms and issuing a single 1099 to investors, making it suitable for those wishing to hold in tax-deferred accounts.
- Diversified Portfolio: The ETF tracks the Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index, which includes various energy infrastructure MLPs, ensuring broad diversification across sectors like petroleum pipeline transportation, thereby reducing single investment risk.
- Stable Cash Flow Support: Energy Transfer and Enterprise Products Partners account for 12.5% and 11.7% of the ETF's assets, respectively, both relying on stable fee-based income to ensure the sustainability of their high-yield distributions.
Analyst Views on PAA
Wall Street analysts forecast PAA stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for PAA is 20.19 USD with a low forecast of 16.50 USD and a high forecast of 23.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
8 Analyst Rating
3 Buy
4 Hold
1 Sell
Hold
Current: 19.300
Low
16.50
Averages
20.19
High
23.00
Current: 19.300
Low
16.50
Averages
20.19
High
23.00
About PAA
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and provides logistics services for crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGL). It owns a network of pipeline gathering and transportation systems, in addition to terminalling, storage, processing, fractionation and other infrastructure assets serving key producing basins, transportation corridors and major market hubs and export outlets in the United States and Canada. Its Crude Oil segment operations consist of gathering and transporting crude oil using pipelines, gathering systems, trucks and at times on barges or railcars. Its assets provide services to third parties as well as to its merchant activities. Its NGL segment operations involve natural gas processing and NGL fractionation, storage, transportation and terminalling. NGL segment offers merchant activities include the acquisition of extraction rights from producers and/or shippers of the gas streams that pass through its Empress facility.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
