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In short: Part of Harrington's midstream book and the destination of her whole energy argument: "most of those — Energy Transfer, Enterprise, Kinder Morgan, MPLX — those guys are all the midstream energy space. They're also up 25% on the year, 25–30% a lot of them, but they don't have the [oil price] exposure." The link back to her rate framework is the reason she prefers them: "if you think interest rates are going to stay kind of high, these guys produce significant cash here and now today, and that's valuable… I want to stay in a space that I don't think has run up because of the price of oil over the year."
Energy Transfer is a midstream company — it owns pipelines and processing facilities and charges fees to move other people's oil and gas. It does not really care what a barrel costs; it cares how many barrels flow.
That is exactly why Jenny Harrington is keeping it while walking away from the oil majors. The majors, she argues, are up only because crude went from $58 to $86 and she does not believe $86 holds. The midstream names are up 25–30% this year for reasons that have nothing to do with the commodity price.
Her deeper reason connects back to interest rates. If long-term rates stay high because of the sheer volume of new government and corporate borrowing, then money you receive today is worth more, relative to money promised years from now, than it used to be. Businesses that generate large cash flows right now — pipelines, and equally the healthcare majors she owns — are the ones that setting favours.
In short: The third pipeline name — "Enterprise Products and MPLX, Energy Transfer" — completing the midstream rung of the full-line energy mix.
Energy Transfer operates one of the largest pipeline networks in North America, moving natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude and refined products across the country. Same economics as its peers: fee-based income tied to volumes, with a large cash distribution to holders.
Its role in the book is the same as EPD's and MPLX's — the steady, income-producing middle of an energy allocation whose ends (producers and service companies) are far more sensitive to the oil price.
42:56If you look, we own the old Apache company, which is APA. We own Antero. God, what a cheap stock. Seven or eight times earnings. Then we own the pipelines. We own Enterprise Products and MPLX, Energy Transfer. We kind of up and down the way. And then we own a little bit on the service side.
In short: Held on both sides of the capital structure: "one of the biggest energy MLPs where we own common and prefs," reporting Tuesday pre-market.
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In short: "We own it in our core portfolio." Pipelines are the un-talked-about AI trade — tentacles to move gas near the data centers; 12× earnings, 7% dividend, beautiful FCF; "same path the next five years" (7% + ~30% appreciation).
Energy Transfer owns a vast US pipeline network — "the OG hard asset" that mainstream TV won't cover. It's in his core portfolio. The pitch: those pipeline "tentacles" are exactly what's needed to move gas to the data centers, so it's a quiet AI trade. At 12× earnings with a 7% dividend and strong free cash flow, he expects the next five years to repeat the last (roughly 7% a year in dividends plus ~30% price appreciation).
47:18Like the CNBCs of the world, right? Will not cover these type of stories. The producers are pushing AI agenda. They're pushing all kinds of crypto the last five years. This pipeline story across the United States, you can buy Energy Transfer.
In short: An ~8% yield MLP that moves the gas; doubled the dividend over four years — energy-infrastructure for AI.
Energy Transfer is a pipeline operator — it owns the "toll roads" that move natural gas around the country, collecting fees on the volume. It pays an ~8% dividend and has doubled that payout over four years. He likes it as the infrastructure that physically delivers the energy AI demands.
27:41Let's say the market cap is 10 billion and free cash flow is 1.5 billion — that's a 15% free cash flow yield. And then Energy Transfer, 8% dividend, doubled the dividend over the last four years. The bottom line is artificial intelligence needs a whole new energy infrastructure and transportation system. Natural gas — Trump's going to do a deal with the Europeans, LNG exports are exploding.
In short: His preferred way to play AI power demand — "the best way to play it is just through energy and pipelines." Energy Transfer is among the midstream names "being approached by people saying, hey, run a pipe to our power plant for our data center." Not sexy, "may not get 10x," but should beat the S&P.
Energy Transfer owns pipelines — the toll roads that move natural gas around the country. Because AI data centers need enormous amounts of power and natural gas is the quickest "bridge" fuel until nuclear catches up, pipeline companies are literally being asked to "run a pipe to our power plant." Polomny's view: the safest way to play the AI-energy boom is to own the pipeline collecting fees, not the flashy tech company. It won't 10x, but it should beat the market and pays you while you wait.
30:09bridge fuel. We've talked about that before. We've talked about Energy Transfer Partners, ONEOK and Enbridge all being approached by people saying, hey, run a pipe to our power plant for our data center. We've shown the chart that shows, I think it's by 2030, doubling the amount of LNG exports from the US.
In short: Building natural-gas pipelines to three Oracle data centers (two in Texas) — a clear data-center demand win. But it "serves both oil and natural gas markets" and is down 15% YTD; the mixed oil/liquids exposure is what Sanghani favors less than pure-gas names.
Energy Transfer is a giant pipeline network (structured as an MLP) that moves both oil and natural gas. The good news in the article: it's building gas pipelines to three Oracle data centers, a direct play on AI power demand. The bad news: the stock is down 15% this year because its oil exposure drags it when oil prices fall.
That split is exactly why the analysts say to prefer pure natural-gas pipelines: ET's mixed oil-and-gas business makes it more exposed to weak oil than a gas-only name like Williams.
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