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Kinder Morgan Inc.KMICOMMENTMar 31, 2015Stock 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%.
Had 3 MLPs along with the General Partner Kinder Morgan Inc. The MLPs had grown fairly rapidly. When they grow and start to pay distributions out they have to pay 2% of the cash flow to the general partner, and the remainder gets split with LP units of the MLP. That becomes cost prohibitive as the MLP grows. Because of this, Kinder Morgan collapsed them. This freed up the capital for them to grow to do deals. Income is stable and is going to grow at 10% for the next 5 years. Have done a phenomenal job of navigating through the commodity cycle.