Portfolio of 27 Best High-Yielding Oil and Gas Pipeline Stocks

According to analysts, North America needs to invest $641 billion in energy infrastructure by 2035 to meet growing demand. 

That is expected to triple the annual investment rate, which should drive strong growth for pipeline stocks over the next few decades. 

While there should be many winners, in my opinion, the best five stocks to invest in the growth of pipeline infrastructure in North America are below. Meanwhile, if you are looking for a more updated article, check out this piece on the best pipeline stocks.

Oil & gas pipeline operators transport fuel through pipelines, often over great distances. Most of these companies are structured as Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs), which helps limit costs by passing tax obligations along to shareholders. 

Since MLPs are required to distribute the vast majority of their earnings to shareholders, these stocks usually offer very high dividend yields.

The oil and gas pipeline stocks included in the portfolio computations are: BWP, BPL, ENB, EEP, ETE, ETP, EPD, GEL, HEP, MMP, NS, NSH, OKS, PAA, TCP and TLP. Others are ARCX, BKEP, CQP, ENBL, JPEP, KMI, PSXP, PAGP, SEP, TEP, TLLP, VLP and WES.

20 Of The Safest Dividend Challengers On The Market

Dividend Challengers with lowest beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love high-quality dividend growth stocks and the stocks with the longest history of consecutive payments are definitely Dividend Kings and Dividend Champions. But the big disadvantage of them is that they are also highly priced.

You cannot make a greater return with stocks that have a P/E ratio of 22 and grows only at 5 percent. You need real bargains to make big profit with your asset.

This problem can be solved when you look into the dividend potentials. Those stocks haven’t yet reached a longer dividend payment history but they can become a great Dividend Champion within the next years. The price ratios are also lower for some companies and you have a better choice to find good investments because out there are around 160 stocks with five or more years of consecutive dividend payments and 207 with a payment between 10 to 25 years.

Today I like to screen the third class of dividend growth stocks by the safest alternatives. The 20 safest dividend growth stocks have a beta ratio between 0.18 and 0.55. All three top picks come from the oil & gas pipeline industry, a branch with very stable sales and future growth perspectives due to the shale gas boom in the United States.

From the 20 safest Dividend Challengers have nine a current buy or better rating.

20 High-Yield Stocks With Safe Heaven Characteristics

High-Yield MidCap stocks with low beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Investors always look for opportunities on the market. They try to realize a bigger return by excluding additional risks. Risk-free stocks don’t exist but some stocks have a higher volatility than others. A ratio that measures the volatility is the beta ratio.

Linked is a sheet of the “safest” high-yielding stocks. Those stocks have a beta ratio below 0.5 as well as a higher market capitalization. In my case, I screen for stocks with a market valuation over USD 2 billion.

Only 20 companies fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which six have a double-digit yield. Eight of the results are recommended to buy. REITs and oil & gas pipeline stocks dominating the screen.

20 Safest Dividend Income Growth Stocks From The Early Stage

Dividend Challengers with low beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some investors are greedy and tend to overlook risks. Others are too anxious and avoid to buy stocks in a larger amount. They could “lose money” or they “can get quick rich” are two psychological factors that investors prevent to make real money with investing. Both are not true and only an illusion.

If you invest money into the stock market and you do it wisely and diversified, you should only count with a return close to the performance of the broad market. I believe that a return of 8 percent is realistic and good enough to beat inflation and grow wealth.

Today I like to screen a category of stocks with a longer dividend growth history, the Dividend Challengers. Those stocks have achieved to raise dividends over a period of more than five years in a row but less than 10 years. 167 companies have fulfilled these dividend growth criteria. 

Below is a list of the safest stocks from the investment category "Challengers". They have a beta ratio of less than 0.5 as well as a market capitalization over USD 2.0 billion.

20 Dividend Challengers are on the list of the safest dividend income growth stocks and six of them have a high yield; Nine are recommended to buy.

19 High Yielding Income Growth Stocks With Low Debt Ratios

High-Yield dividend growth stocks with low debt originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I often tell that growth and income growth are two major items in wealth creating.

Another criterion is the debt level. A company with an indebtedness has much more possibilities to grow or to create something special. Companies with a huge debt load must create management teams to handle this debt and look for new finance rounds.

I love it when stocks have a low debt to equity ratio. But it’s only an additional stone in the wall of corporate finance and valuation.

Today I like to highlight the highest dividend paying stocks (over five percent dividend yield) with more than five years of consecutive dividend growth and a debt to equity ratio of less than one. The ratio is not really low but it’s ok for a higher yielding company in my view. What matters in this area is the expected growth. Growth destroys debt. A growing income makes it easier to pay back the loans.

Nineteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which seven have a buy or better rating. Oil and gas pipeline stocks and drilling companies are the dominating industries in this screen.

17 High-Yield Oil And Gas Pipeline Stocks

Oil & gas pipeline operators with highest dividend yields originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Stocks from the basic material sector could complement your portfolio and hedge it against strong commodity price increases. One industry from the basic material sector with the highest yielding stocks is the oil and gas pipeline industry.

39 companies are linked to the industry of which 37 pay dividends. Combined they have a total market capitalization of USD 800 billion. Nearly 60 percent of the industry players have a yield over 5 percent and some have a really great dividend history. Thanks to the share gas boom it’s now possible that more pipeline infrastructure is needed. The average industry yield amounts to 4.72% and the P/E ratio is 33.40.

You should have seen some interesting pipeline companies on my blog in the past. Normally I am no fan of real estate companies because of the huge amounts of money they need for growing. But pipeline operators look different. They pay huge dividends and have the ability to grow dividends year over year. Their business model works but I don’t know how long. Pipeline operators are better than real estate stocks but it could be possible that the time brings some changes, especially when the energy demand and supply is changing.

Oil and gas pipeline stocks are real asset companies and they have a huge leverage on their balance sheet. The average industry long-term debt to equity ratio is over 123 percent but as long as revenue and cash flow streams are stable, this figure is still healthy.

Linked is a list of all higher capitalized oil and gas pipeline operators (over USD 2 billion market cap) with a yield over 5 percent. Seventeen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eight have a current buy or better recommendation.

Best Yielding Dividend Challengers | 30 High-Yield Dividend Growth Stocks

Dividend Challengers with the highest dividend yields originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividend Challengers are the third class of the best dividend growth stocks. They raised cash distributions to shareholders in form of dividends over a period between 5 and 10 years without a break.

Exactly 175 stocks raised dividends over this period. Today, I like to present the best yielding Challengers. The list below shows all High-Yield stocks. In total, there are 30 companies with a yield of more than 5 percent and nearly half of the results are recommended to buy.

Some Challengers have the potential to grow dividends to real Champions but most of them will fail over the next five or ten years. I personally would not use the dividend growth criteria as a big requirement. The biggest capital gains will be made with good growth picks. The payments will come from alone in the end.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On November 06, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex-dividend dates. The ex-dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 06, 2012. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.55%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Capital Product Partners L.P.	CPLP	599.42M	73.91	0.92	3.76	11.44%
Navios Maritime Partners L.P.	NMM	967.95M	12.14	1.57	4.77	11.22%
R.R. Donnelley & Sons	RRD	1.84B	-	1.63	0.18	10.21%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	32.59B	16.90	4.96	4.87	9.62%
Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP	BWP	6.14B	21.31	1.61	5.31	8.00%
American Realty Capital Trust	ARCT	1.79B	-	1.78	10.50	6.33%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.62B	12.79	1.36	1.17	4.66%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.31B	13.15	3.73	2.52	4.32%
Computer Programs & Systems	CPSI	561.25M	20.44	8.79	3.16	3.63%
S&T Bancorp Inc.	STBA	508.68M	14.50	0.95	3.23	3.51%
Alexander's Inc.	ALX	2.23B	38.52	6.21	10.75	3.44%
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc.	BHLB	512.61M	15.49	0.87	3.14	3.12%
Matson, Inc.	MATX	905.24M	22.96	3.66	0.55	2.81%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.	AHL	2.21B	8.66	0.62	0.99	2.19%
Viewpoint Financial Group	VPFG	859.28M	21.50	1.66	6.47	1.84%
Regis Corp.	RGS	947.84M	-	1.06	0.43	1.45%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	TJX	30.56B	18.29	9.03	1.26	1.11%
Franklin Electric Co. Inc.	FELE	1.35B	18.02	2.81	1.57	1.00%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	10.00B	84.91	4.75	9.07	0.17%

The Best Dividends On May 08, 2012

Here is a current overview of the best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 08, 2012. In total, 43 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 18 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.40 percent.

The 10 Highest Yielding Dividend Challengers

An Overview Of The Best Yielding Dividend Challengers Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Challengers are stocks that have raised their dividend payments for more than five years in a row but not more than nine years. 196 companies have achieved this goal of which 33 yielding above five percent. Here is a brief overview of the best yielding Dividend Challengers. Huge dividends also include a bigger risk of dividend cuts due to the low diversification level. Nearly 60 percent of the results have a market capitalization of less than USD 1 billion. Despite the risk, 90 percent have a buy or better rating outstanding.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 14, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 14, 2012. In total, 21 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 7 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.10 percent.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 08, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 08, 2012. In total, 21 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 6 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.15 percent.