7 ‘Strong Buy’ Energy MLPs With Fat Dividends to Buy Now as Yields Tumble

The Gathering segment owns natural gas gathering and crude oil gathering systems, as well as produced water gathering and disposal facilities. Its gathering system consists of approximately 1,350 miles of high and low pressure natural gas and natural gas liquids gathering pipelines with capacity of approximately 450 million cubic feet per day, and the crude oil gathering system comprises approximately 550 miles of crude oil gathering pipelines.

The Processing and Storage segment comprises Tioga Gas Plant, a natural gas processing and fractionation plant located in Tioga, North Dakota; a 50% interest in the Little Missouri 4 gas processing plant located in south of the Missouri River in McKenzie County, North Dakota; and Mentor Storage Terminal, a propane storage cavern and rail, and truck loading and unloading facility located in Mentor, Minnesota.

The Terminaling and Export segment owns Ramberg terminal facility; Tioga rail terminal; and crude oil rail cars, as well as Johnson’s Corner Header System, a crude oil pipeline header system.

Investors receive a 7.11% distribution. The $40 Goldman Sachs price target compares with the $34.50 consensus target. Hess Midstream stock closed at $29.69 on Tuesday.

Magellan Midstream Partners

This is another top midstream MLP company that checks in high on the distribution list. Magellan Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE: MMP) engages in the transportation, storage and distribution of refined petroleum products and crude oil in the United States.

The company operates refined products pipelines that transport gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, kerosene and heating oil to refiners, wholesalers, retailers, traders, railroads, airlines and regional farm cooperatives, as well as to end markets, including retail gasoline stations, truck stops, farm cooperatives, railroad fueling depots, military bases and commercial airports.

The company also provides pipeline capacity and tank storage services, as well as terminaling, ethanol and biodiesel unloading and loading, additive injection, custom blending, laboratory testing and data services to shippers. In addition, Magellan Midstream Partners owns and operates crude oil pipelines and storage facilities as well as marine terminals located along coastal waterways that provide distribution, storage, blending, inventory management and additive injection services for refiners, marketers, traders and other end users of petroleum products.

Magellan Midstream Partners stock comes with a 7.98% distribution. Earlier this summer, Goldman Sachs upgraded the shares to Buy and raised the $55 price target to $59. The consensus target is $54.54, and Tuesday’s last trade was at $52.10 a share.

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