Topic: How To Invest

Q: Hello, all. Could you please provide your opinion of Enterprise Product Partners (EPD on New York)? Thank you.

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A: Enterprise Products Partners L.P., $22.01, symbol EPD on New York (Shares outstanding: 2.2 billion; Market cap: $48.0 billion; www.enterprisepartners.com), is a master limited partnership that provides energy infrastructure, including pipelines, storage, natural gas processing, fractionation, and import/export terminals. It went public in July 1998 with $715 million in assets. Today, it has over $64 billion. Because it’s a master limited partnership, Enterprise is required to pass on its income to shareholders. As a result, it currently pays a quarterly distribution of $0.45 a share. The partnership’s annual distribution payment of $1.80 yields a very high 8.2%. Enterprise has, in fact, increased its annual distribution for 22 consecutive years. In the latest quarter ended September 30, 2021, it had $1.6 billion in cash flow available for distributions to unitholders. That was equal to 1.6 times its quarterly distribution. That suggests the company can continue to pay its high distribution. Furthermore, because Enterprise is a midstream company, it gets paid by oil and gas companies…