CEM News and Press, ClearBridge MLP and Midstream Fund Inc. From 06/09/22

JRI’s high yield is supported by an average coupon of 5.5 percent, and the returns of stocks from real assets related companies. High inflation, rising interest rates, and looming economic recession impacts real asset related stocks much less than traditional or high growth sto...

For the second month in three, equity CEFs on average witnessed positive returns, rising 0.73% on a NAV basis for May. While for the fifth consecutive month, fixed income CEFs posted returns in the red (-0.40%). Only 20% of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NAV at month end, w...

ClearBridge MLP and Midstream Fund Inc. (NYSE: CEM) announced today the unaudited statement of assets and liabilities, the net asset value and asset coverage ratio of the Fund as of May 31, 2022. As of May 31, 2022, the Fund’s net assets were $579.6 million, and its net asset...

Several companies across the energy infrastructure landscape were active with their repurchase programs in 1Q22, albeit at mostly modest amounts. Energy infrastructure companies repurchased $370 million of their equity in aggregate during the first quarter of 2022. Combining the l...

For the energy sector, several years of underperformance over the last decade left many investors on the sidelines. In a survey of financial advisors in December 2021, more than half of the respondents were underweight energy. Investors that have been underweight energy may be looking...

Average coupon or interest rate earned on investments of GBAB is 5.46 percent while it pays dividend with an average yield in excess of 7 percent. Historical price performance of GBAB has been extremely poor, both in the short and the long term. GBAB is currently trading near its ...

Inflationary pressures remain entrenched and benchmark Treasury yields are marching ever northward. Push-and-pull in equity markets are re-defining volatility in a new normal environment. Senior loan / floating rate "loan participation" baskets provide opportunities for increased ...

What's working is dominated by "risk on" sectors. Consumer stocks appear to be weak in the knees. Are growth stocks starting to show signs of a bottom? For further details see: Retail Looks Wrecked; Are Growth Stocks Bottoming?

Midstream dividend trends remained positive for 1Q22 with no cuts across Alerian’s midstream indexes for the third straight quarter and several examples of growth, including a handful of names raising their quarterly payouts by double-digit percentages. On a year-over-year basi...

Midstream MLPs, as measured by the Solactive MLP Infrastructure Index, increased 0.29% last month. The Enterprise Value to EBITDA ratio (EV-to-EBITDA), which seeks to provide more color on the valuations of MLPs, decreased by 1.11% last month. The Baker Hughes Rig Count increased ...