Jul 24, 2022What Kinder Morgan's Q2 Says About US MidstreamThis is the first of three articles in which I’ll focus on Q2 results and guidance updates for recommended stocks that are also great bellwethers for their respective sectors.ByRoger ConradContributor
Oct 24, 2020Kinder Morgan: Charting A US Midstream RecoveryStability and sustainability were certainly themes of Kinder Morgan’s Q3 results and guidance. Despite the worst market conditions for US midstream companies in at least a generation, the company’s Q3 distributable cash flow per share was down just 4 percent from year ago levels.ByRoger ConradContributor
Jul 25, 2020Q2 Takeaways From A Midstream Company That MattersThe numbers were never going to be pretty for North American energy midstream companies. Management teams warned this spring that COVID-19 fallout was crushing volumes on both the upstream and downstream ends of the business. And that’s exactly what happened at Kinder Morgan Inc.ByRoger ConradContributor
Apr 24, 2020Kinder Morgan: Stronger Than You ThinkBack in 2017, financially recovering Kinder Morgan Inc promised investors three dividend increases: A boost of 60 percent for 2018, followed by 25 percent hikes in 2019 and 2020. The company followed through on the first two. But this week, it offered up a 5 percent lift for 2020.ByRoger ConradContributor
Apr 9, 2020The States With The Most Billionaires 2020Though California may boast more billionaires than any other U.S. state, Wyoming has the highest billionaires per capita. These are the 10 states with the largest number of the world's richest.ByCarter CoudrietFormer Staff
Jan 28, 2020Kinder Morgan Buy Write Is Pipeline To Friday DividendHere is the buy write: Buy 200 KMI ($21.53 current price), and sell 2 contracts of the $22 March 20 calls. Use a net debit (stock price minus options premium) of $21.25 (stock price minus options premium) or lower.ByJohn DoboszNewsletter
Oct 26, 2019At Least 20 Billionaires Behind ‘Dark Money’ Group That Opposed ObamaA nonprofit group with a bland name, Americans for Job Security, spent $15 million denouncing former President Obama in the 2012 election, but until this week, the group never had to file disclosures showing where its money was coming from.ByMichela TinderaFormer Staff
Oct 17, 2019Kinder Morgan Buy Write Taps Into Cash Pipeline With Dividend Due In Two WeeksHere is the buy write: Buy 300 KMI ($19.99 current price), and sell three contracts of the $20 calls that expire on December 20. Use a net debit of $19.50 (stock price minus options premium) or lower.ByJohn DoboszNewsletter
May 2, 2019Looking to Insiders for Clues to a TurnaroundIt’s been said that insiders sell their personal holdings of their company’s shares for many reasons, but they buy for only one reason: the stock is headed higher. For turnaround investors, insider stock purchases can provide important clues that a recovery may be ahead.ByGeorge PutnamNewsletter
Mar 16, 2019Four Changes: Forbes Dividend Investor - March 15 Weekly UpdateThree stocks (KRO, K, PLOW) triggered 10% trailing stops and are being removed from the portfolio, and ORIT, although it has yet to decline anywhere near 10%, is being removed because it looks overvalued and insiders are selling.ByJohn DoboszNewsletter
Oct 18, 2018Energizing With Dividend And Premium From Kinder Morgan Buy WriteToday's conservative trade is a buy write on Kinder Morgan (KMI), an energy infrastructure company that just reported better than expected operating results yesterday. There is a $0.20 per share dividend coming up, with an ex-dividend date less than two weeks away on October 30.ByJohn DoboszNewsletter
Jun 22, 2015Pipeline Giant Williams Rejects $64 A Share Takeover Bid From Energy TransferPipeline giant the Williams Companies on Sunday rejected a $64 a share all-stock takeover offer from competitor Energy Transfer.ByAntoine GaraFormer Staff
Jan 26, 2015Fear, Not Greed Drives $18 Billion Oil Industry Mega DealThe collapse in oil prices has hammered energy stocks, but it isn't slowing large merger and acquisition activity among companies that are building the infrastructure to serve North American shale drillers.ByAntoine GaraFormer Staff
Dec 23, 2014Oil Shakeout, Corporate Breakups Could Drive Merger And Acquisition Activity In 2015The drilling industry's woes as the price of oil sits below $60 a barrel are expected to become a new driver of merger and acquisition activity in 2015, after a banner year for deal-making as steadily rising U.S. economic data and an easing of political battles in Washington pushed stock markets to new records.ByAntoine GaraFormer Staff
Nov 28, 2014Billionaire Richard Kinder Weathers Oil Market Plunge With Mega DealShale baron Richard Kinder isn't suffering from a plunge in oil prices as OPEC tries to live with North American production.ByAntoine GaraFormer Staff
Dec 29, 2013Beaten-Down Dividend Stocks For 20142013 was the year of dividend destruction. That may sound like an odd statement given that 2013 was a record year in terms of dollars paid out in dividends. The number of companies raising their dividend hit the highest levels in over 20 years, and dividend cuts were almost unheard of. And given that [...]ByCharles SizemoreFormer Contributor