EQM News and Press, EQM Midstream Partners LP From 01/29/20

With many investors using energy infrastructure in income portfolios, the outlook for dividends (or distributions for MLPs) comes up in almost every investor conversation. For quite some time, we have characterized MLP distribution growth as moderating from the old days of 6-8% growth. This ca...

The beauty of the energy markets are their highly cyclical nature provides significant investment opportunities to invest in quality companies during the down cycle. These down cycles can come for any variety of reasons, from the attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure all the wa...

Foreword This US list of 55 payback champion stocks that have annually hiked dividends for 5 to 9 more years was derived from The David Fish lists at The DRiP Investing Resource Center . The culling found 117 of 463 Challengers with 5-9 straight years of higher dividends. The 117 all sh...

Background Although I don't think you can go wrong with just about any midstream oil and gas company at this time, as I have written multiple articles on the space including on Inter Pipeline ( IPPLF ), DCP Midstream ( DCP ), and NGL Energy Partners ( NGL ), Equitrans Midstream ( ETRN ) is a...

MLPs and midstream came back to earth this week, dragged down by oil and natural gas prices that were too weak to be ignored by midstream investors after 6 weeks of gains. It was the worst week for midstream since December 2018. Even the S&P 500 was down 1.0% this week. Utilities rallied i...

Introduction The Dividend Champions list is a monthly compilation of companies which have consistently increased their annual dividend payouts, and the latest edition may be found here . However, since this list is only produced once per month, the data in it can quickly get out of date. Fu...

MLPs extended their winning streak to 5 weeks, but MLPs and midstream stocks were weaker towards the end of the week as oil prices and energy stock prices sank lower. Natural gas and NGL prices were up on the week, but remain at low absolute levels. Capital markets came out of hibernation with...

Midstream traded up for a fourth straight week since bottoming on December 3rd. MLPs are up 12.7% from the bottom and the AMNA isn't far behind with a 10% gain. Thursday night's news of the airstrike on a major Iranian leader pushed oil prices higher Friday. That news hurt the broad market, an...

Midstream MLPs were, until 2014, a fairly proven business model. However, in the time since, they've clearly been out of favor with the market seeing their stock prices drop, increasing their yields. Ordinarily this is a good thing, however, the midstream MLP business model relies on some fund...

Midstream's bounce off the bottom continued this week. In basically a repeat of last week, the MLP Index gained 4.6% the first three days of the week and was flattish from Wednesday's close through the end of the week. Helping the sector sustain last week's rate of gains was the announcement o...