6 American Small-Cap Oil and Gas Equities That Currently Yield 8% or More

Eight percent is nothing to sneeze at, especially when you consider that these stocks are dealing in oil and gas and that higher oil prices tend to be a positive for petroleum explorers, drillers and sometimes even refiners (and vice-versa, of course, if petroleum prices go down). Nonetheless, many of these companies have moved up quite a bit over the past two years, so investors should be wary of buying high. Of course, the whole market has moved up quite a bit in that time frame, and over 7% means about 4x the yield of the S&P 500 (SPY), which yields approximately 1.8%, and almost 3x the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA), which is yielding about 2.5%. The following is a list of the six American small-cap oil and gas stocks that currently yield over 8%, listed in alphabetical order: Breitburn Energy Partners L.P. (BBEP) Yield: 8% Market Capitalization: $1.13.... Read more