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  • Natural Gas Exports: Who Might Win?

    By Robert Zimmerman - April 28, 2013 | Tickers: CQP, LNG, GLOG, LNCO, LINE

    The Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions analyzed the impact of American natural gas exports. According to its report, Deloitte believes exporting 6 billion cubic feet a day will cause natural gas prices to increase 15 cents per million BTUs, or 3.75%. For exporters, this spells opportunity. By the time gas is liquefied, exported, and then regassified, it costs about $9/mmBTU. Despite these costs, exporting gas could produce more »

  • 3 Dividend Payers I'm Watching Now

    By Robert Zimmerman - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: CLMT, LNCO, LINE, SDRL

    As earnings season begins, it’s time once again to review investments. Certainly, one should not live and die on one earnings report. However, it behooves investors to mind their holdings. These three companies pay big dividends and show up on my radar screen.

    Deep sea drilling with modern rigs?
    2012 saw a record high new oil finds in deepwater (over 4000 ft). A case can be made for offshore more »

  • 3 Dividend Payers I'm Watching Now

    By Robert Zimmerman - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: CLMT, LNCO, LINE, SDRL

    As earnings season begins, it’s time once again to review investments. Certainly, one should not live and die on one earnings report. However, it behooves investors to mind their holdings. These three companies pay big dividends and show up on my radar screen.

    Deep sea drilling with modern rigs?
    2012 saw a record high new oil finds in deepwater (over 4000 ft). A case can be made for offshore more »

  • 3 Dividend Payers I'm Watching Now

    By Robert Zimmerman - April 15, 2013 | Tickers: CLMT, LNCO, LINE, SDRL

    As earnings season begins, it’s time once again to review investments. Certainly, one should not live and die on one earnings report. However, it behooves investors to mind their holdings. These  three companies pay big dividends and show up on my radar screen.

    Deep sea drilling with modern rigs?
    2012 saw a record high new oil finds in deepwater (over 4000 ft). A case can be made for offshore more »

  • A Value Play in Oil and Gas

    By Piyush Arora - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: BRY, LNCO, LINE

    Investing in high-income growth stocks has always been a solid strategy, but investing in MLPs, or Master Liability Partnerships, is an even better approach. Companies that generate steady cash flows opt for an MLP status, which saves them the hassle of double taxation while unit holders get the bulk of the earnings. Linn Energy (NASDAQ: LINE) is one such company, and its hefty yield of 7.6% makes it a more »

  • Natural Gas Suppliers Will Benefit from Rising Prices

    By Nihar Patel - April 2, 2013 | Tickers: CHK, LNCO, LINE

    I was worried about rising natural gas prices for companies that make products trying to unseat oil’s dominant position, but the flip side of that is the benefit to the suppliers. One of the great things about investing is that a problem in one place can mean opportunity in another. The companies could only go for the easiest, aka cheapest, gas available. If the natural gas price trend continues more »

  • A Value Play in Oil and Gas

    By Piyush Arora - April 2, 2013 | Tickers: BRY, LNCO, LINE

    Investing in high-income growth stocks has always been a solid strategy, but investing in MLPs or Master Liability Partnership is an even better strategy. Companies that generate steady cash flows opt for an MLP status, which saves them the hassle of double taxation and unit holders get the bulk of its earnings. Linn Energy (NASDAQ: LINE) is one such company, and its hefty yield of 7.64% makes it a more »

  • Mid-Con Energy Partners, LP: New MLP, Huge Potential Payout

    By Brad Prigmore - March 9, 2013 | Tickers: LNCO, LINE, MCEP

    Mid-Con Energy Partners, LP (NASDAQ: MCEP) is a Delaware limited partnership formed in July 2011 to own, operate, acquire, exploit and develop producing oil and natural gas properties in North America, with a focus on the Mid-Continent region of the United States. The management team has significant industry experience with waterflood projects, or hydraulic fracturing often called "fracking."  As a result operations focus primarily on enhancing the development of producing more »

  • Good News from Great Companies

    By Robert Zimmerman - March 8, 2013 | Tickers: COG, DVN, LNCO, LINE, WPZ

    Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG) reported its 4Q 2012 and it beat analysts’ expectations with a stick. Expectations had been bearish, but any concerns were crushed by Cabot earning 27 cents a share, well over the 22 cents a share consensus. More good news came from the natural gas reserves front. Cabot reported its 2012 year end reserves increased 27% over 2011. And that growth was all organic. Gas production more »

  • To Drill or Refine? Good Ways to Collect Big Dividends

    By Robert Zimmerman - March 4, 2013 | Tickers: CLMT, LNCO, LINE, SDRL

    The boom in US energy production creates an income opportunity for retirees and those smart enough to plan ahead for retirement.  With Social Security projecting benefit cuts and facing insolvency in 2033, Americans need to take care of their retirement income themselves.  Below are three energy companies that can help Americans achieve a measure of financial independence.

    Did you catch them in the movie “Safe Haven?”

    Even if you didn more »

  • Linn Energy is a Buy After Berry's Acquisition

    By Anh HOANG - February 26, 2013 | Tickers: BRY, LNCO, LINE

    Linn Energy (NASDAQ: LINE) has just announced that it will boost its oil reserves in several states in the US by acquiring Berry Petroleum (NYSE: BRY) for about $2.5 billion in stock, with a total deal value of $4.3 billion, including debt. Does the deal overvalue or undervalue Berry Petroleum? Is Linn a good buy after this deal?

    Deal Structure

    With a total deal value of $4.3 more »

  • Members of the 7% Dividend Club

    By Robert Zimmerman - February 15, 2013 | Tickers: CLMT, ETP, LNCO, LINE

    Master limited partnerships offer investors high yields with potential tax advantages.  Yes, you have to report on your taxes several lines from a K-1 form, but considering MLP distributions may receive more favorable tax treatment than dividends from common stock, it may be worth the hassle.  Below, I’ll review three different MLPs in three different businesses  All pay over 7% in distributions, all have their assets and liabilities.

                          

                   

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  • The Line on Linn

    By Robert Zimmerman - February 6, 2013 | Tickers: APA, LNCO, LINE

    For all the wealth generated by US domestic energy production, one sad reality remains: energy producers don’t always produce profits for investors.  Just ask anyone who invested in Sandridge Energy over the past two years.  Particularly for natural gas producers, commodity prices have pressured profit margins and earnings.  Oil producers in the Bakken oil shale play face the prospect of rapid depletion, and with it higher drilling and replenishment more »

  • "Master" Your Limited Partnership

    By David Mercer - December 28, 2012 | Tickers: ETP, EPD, LNCO, LINE

    Currently, Master Limited Partnerships (MLP's) are all the rage--and for good reason. Arguably, a sound alternative to bonds, MLP's provide steady income with potential for significant and meaningful capital gains. However, MLP's are not without risk and they're certainly not for every investor. That being said, several companies offering monster dividends certainly got my attention and should probably get yours. So let's take a look more »

  • What’s the Opportunity with Linn Energy?

    By Matthew DiLallo - December 6, 2012 | Tickers: APC, BP, LNCO, LINE

    Treasuries are yielding less than two percent and that bank account of yours, you’d be lucky to earn half a percent.  Investors are starved for yield and are looking for it in all the wrong places by bidding up the prices of bonds to such heights that the fall from those levels will be quite painful.  What if there was an asset that offered the stability of a bond more »

  • It’s Finally Time to Buy This Dividend Dynamo

    By Matthew DiLallo - November 16, 2012 | Tickers: APC, BP, LNCO, LINE

    It’s hard to be enthused by a stock market sell-off.  To see vast amounts of wealth disappear usually is met with equal amounts of antacids.  Unless of course you have some cash on the sidelines that you’ve been dying to invest and that’s exactly where I find myself. 

    At the end of May I launched a virtual portfolio that I dubbed the “No Drip, No Mess” Portfolio more »

  • Natural Gas: the Fossil Fuel of the Near-Future

    By Nihar Patel - November 16, 2012 | Tickers: FSYS, GM, LNCO, LINE

    There is no way that natural gas can remain as cheap as it is in the United States without demand eventually catching up. Natural gas is not a cheap inferior fuel; in fact, it is a fantastic fuel that is cleaner than the swill we use now. Obviously, it is not a solution to the energy crisis that will eventually arrive if we rely on extracted fossil fuels, but it more »

  • Same Wells, Better Results and More Profits

    By Matthew DiLallo - October 28, 2012 | Tickers: APC, BP, LNCO, LINE

    You might have heard that we’ve got a bit of a bonanza going on when it comes to domestic energy production.  New shale plays that were unknown just a few years ago are becoming household names.  Yet, while most of America’s energy companies are focusing on exploring for hot new plays to exploit the boom, one company is focusing on getting more from our current wells and resource more »

  • Drilling Down into Linn Energy: Which Linn is Right for You?

    By Matthew DiLallo - October 21, 2012 | Tickers: CHK, EPD, XOM, LNCO, LINE

    With the recent IPO of Linn Energy (NASDAQ: LINE) subsidiary LinnCo (NASDAQ: LNCO), energy investors now have a choice in how to invest in this exceptional operator.  Do you want large quarterly distributions with an equally large headache from a Schedule K-1 to deal with each year come tax time?  Or would you take a slightly smaller quarterly payout in exchange for the ease of a 1099?  Before you can more »

  • Four Stocks I was Watching This October

    By Matthew DiLallo - October 21, 2012 | Tickers: INTC, LNCO, LINE, LOW, RCI

    If there’s one rub with using options as a tool for investing success, it’s that you need to monitor them a bit more than just buying or selling stocks.  Personally, I think it’s worth the extra work because you can generate some very nice income.  One thing that seasoned options investors have come to expect is that following the third Friday of each month you need to more »

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