Fastest Growing MLPs For Yield Plus Growth

One thing that is sometimes missed in contributors presenting the “bull” or “bear” case on individual stocks is that different investors have different needs. Someone who is near or at retirement may be looking for high current income and care little about the growth of a dividend stream, save perhaps that hopefully it grows at the rate of inflation. Other dividend investors, such as myself, are farther away from retirement and are looking for solid growth in both price and dividend stream and are willing to sacrifice current yield to some extent. To get more to the point of this article, I was browsing the Alerian MLP index and noticed something disturbing: a full nine companies in the index were projected to have negative EPS growth in 2012. Several more were projected to have virtually zero EPS growth in the next few years. This may serve as a warning to... Read more