High Dividend Stock Has 46 Dividend Hikes, Earnings Estimates Rising, Insiders Are Buying

This stock has raised its distribution for 46 straight quarters and had 1.3x coverage for the most recent four quarters. Insiders have bought a substantial amount of shares over the past six weeks. It has received multiple upward earnings estimate revisions for 2016 and 2017 from analysts over the past month, but is still 11% below analysts' lowest price target.

EPD provides midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLS), crude oil, petrochemicals and refined products. Midstream energy operations include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage, and import and export terminals (including liquefied petroleum gas); crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; offshore production platforms; petrochemical and refined products transportation and services; and a marine transportation business that operates on the U.S. inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems and in the Gulf of Mexico. Enterprise Products Partners LP, (NYSE:EPD) has been gravitating toward more fee-based business, which makes it less vulnerable to the ups and downs of the commodity cycle.

Source: Seeking Alpha

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