Energy Stays Red Hot: 7 MLP Stocks to Buy With Fat Dividends as Oil Prices Surge

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 7.21% distribution. The $40 Goldman Sachs price target is well above the $34.75 consensus target. Hess Midstream stock closed on Tuesday at $30.47.

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 an 8.19% distribution. Goldman Sachs recently upgraded the shares to Buy and raised its $55 price target to $59. The consensus target is $54.53, and Tuesday’s last trade was at $50.70 a share.

MPLX

This is the top holding for the Alerian MLP energy exchange-traded fund. MPLX L.P. (NYSE: MPLX) is primarily engaged in crude oil and refined products transportation and terminaling in the U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast regions, as well as natural gas gathering and processing in the northeast from its prior acquisition of MarkWest Energy in 2015. MPLX was formed by independent U.S. refiner Marathon Petroleum.

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