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Kinder Morgan Inc.KMICOMMENTApr 02, 2014Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 18, 2026. Market Open.
He sold all of his direct energy exposure Jan 31. He thinks there is a $55 to $60 for WTI going forward. He has a negative view of this sector going forward. Pipelines and mid-streamers is the place to be and there is a good story behind the return of capital, but it is simply a tough story. He would stay away from it.
Pipelines. If he didn't know the name of the stock, he would say it has built quite a nice base without any real euphoric volume. Doesn't know what will move this if it hasn't moved yet, but it looks like the risk would be to the upside, not the downside. If he owned it, he would continue holding, but if not, he would be a buyer. Dividend yield of 2.8%.
A pipeline giant. Got highly depressed and there were concerns around the balance sheet, and he thought management had really changed their tune as to where they were going to allocate capital. Instead of getting bigger at all costs, they started getting better. It resulted in a much better free cash flow yield, so he got into this one. Dividend yield of 2.6%.
One of the big reasons investors have been focused on energy infrastructure is because of this boom in production that has been going on in North America. You have to move all the stuff around so many of the infrastructure companies have had a great opportunity to invest in new infrastructure and get great returns on capital. This company is seeing a slowing in their revenues and has not as quite an attractive profile as some of the other companies. He would prefer something like Williams Companies (WMB-N) which is also a pipelines, midstream and energy infrastructure and have raised a lot of equity in 2011-2012 to build up new projects which come into production and fruition in 2013, 2014 and 2015. They will also have close to 20% dividend growth per year for the next 5 years and will get 25%-26% earnings growth.