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Latest Valuentum Commentary

Dec 8, 2015
Dividends Not Safe as Energy Markets Swoon
We continue to monitor the carnage in the oil and gas markets, and we encourage readers to evaluate each firm’s unadjusted Dividend Cushion ratio to assess capital-market dependency. For most midstream entities and upstream entities that remain inescapably tied capital cycle builds, the risks are extreme.
Dec 7, 2015
Master Limited Partnership Model Still At Risk
The bust may still be ahead of us.
Dec 7, 2015
Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending December 4
Let's take a look at companies raising/lowering their dividends this week.
Nov 3, 2015
Oct 27, 2015
A 10%+ Cost of Capital for Midstream Equities Is Reality
Kinder Morgan floated equity capital at a cost of ~12%. The implications are far-reaching.
Oct 6, 2015
Transaction Alerts: Moving Closer to Market Neutral on Energy
The absence of energy exposure in the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio for much of the slide in the price of crude oil has been a tremendous source of upside. The elimination of several profitable positions in the Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio several months ago has added to significant outperformance there. But now…we’re inching back into energy, if ever so slightly and on a highly diversified basis.
Aug 7, 2015
The Great Pipeline Cash Flow Deficiency
Investors simply don’t know the quality of the assets in the ground, and the operators’ financials aren’t much to speak of in light of much safer dividend growth opportunities elsewhere.
Jul 21, 2015
Higher Maintenance Costs for Pipelines?
Plains All American Pipeline has garnered national attention with two pipeline spills in the past two months. Let’s take a look at the reasons behind Plains All American Pipeline’s infrastructure problems.
Jul 10, 2015
Creditor Risk Aversion Rises Considerably in Energy, Metals & Mining Sectors
In a recent Moody’s ‘Capital Markets Research’ report, according to a tabulation performed by Credit Suisse, bond spreads have widened an incredible 385 basis points for high-yield metals/minerals companies and 367 basis points for energy companies in the one-year period ending July 8, 2015. We continue to underweight these sectors within the newsletter portfolios. Creditor risk aversion continues to swell in these two sectors, and the worst has yet to come, in our view.
Jun 18, 2015
5 More Reasons Why We Think Kinder Morgan’s Shares Will Collapse
“...the credit rating agencies have a lot to think about. Kinder Morgan’s investment-grade credit rating is in part supported by the firm’s ability to access the equity markets to sell its own stock. But its share price is artificially propped up by the incorrect application of dividend discount models that are using financially-engineered dividends, which themselves are in part supported by the debt raised from an investment-grade credit rating, which is then used to keep raising debt and growing the dividend…and so on."


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