Energy Transfer Partners
About: Energy Transfer owns one of the largest portfolios of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquid assets in the US, primarily in Texas and the US midcontinent region. Its pipeline network totals 130,000 miles. It also owns gathering and processing facilities, one of the largest fractionation facilities in the US, fuel distribution assets, and the Lake Charles gas liquefaction facility. It combined its publicly traded limited and general partnerships in October 2018.
Employees: 13,786
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Funds holding %
of 7,419 funds
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Analysts bullish %
of 4 analysts
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
205% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 168 | Existing positions closed: 55
67% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 472 | Existing positions reduced: 283
55% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $744M | Put options by funds: $481M
25% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $18.1B [Q3] → $22.7B (+$4.54B) [Q4]
20% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 64 [Q3] → 77 (+13) [Q4]
9% more funds holding
Funds holding: 1,089 [Q3] → 1,182 (+93) [Q4]
0.25% less ownership
Funds ownership: 33.65% [Q3] → 33.41% (-0.25%) [Q4]
Research analyst outlook
4 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
Low target
$22
26%
upside
Avg. target
$24
35%
upside
High target
$26
49%
upside
4 analyst ratings
4 positive
100%
0 neutral
0%
0 negative
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RBC Capital Elvira Scotto 67% 1-year accuracy 22 / 33 met price target | 32%upside $23 | Outperform Reiterated | 25 Mar 2025 |
Morgan Stanley Robert Kad 59% 1-year accuracy 10 / 17 met price target | 49%upside $26 | Overweight Maintained | 25 Mar 2025 |
Citigroup Spiro Dounis 66% 1-year accuracy 21 / 32 met price target | 26%upside $22 | Buy Maintained | 25 Feb 2025 |
Stifel Selman Akyol 76% 1-year accuracy 16 / 21 met price target | 32%upside $23 | Buy Maintained | 12 Feb 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 66 articles about ET published over the past 30 days
Positive
Seeking Alpha
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The Motley Fool
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Positive
24/7 Wall Street
23 hours ago
Energy Transfer (ET) Vs. Enterprise Products Partners (EPD): Which Dividend Is Best?
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Neutral
Zacks Investment Research
2 days ago
Brokers Suggest Investing in Energy Transfer LP (ET): Read This Before Placing a Bet
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Positive
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Positive
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Positive
The Motley Fool
2 days ago
Should You Buy Energy Transfer While It's Trading Below $20?
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Negative
Zacks Investment Research
2 days ago
Energy Transfer LP (ET) Advances But Underperforms Market: Key Facts
Energy Transfer LP (ET) reachead $17.10 at the closing of the latest trading day, reflecting a +0.71% change compared to its last close.
Neutral
PRNewsWire
2 days ago
Sunoco LP Announces a 1.25% Increase in Quarterly Distribution and Continues to Target 2025 Distribution Growth Rate of At Least 5%
DALLAS , April 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN) ("SUN" or the "Partnership") announced that the Board of Directors of SUN's general partner declared a distribution of $0.8976 per common unit, or $3.5904 on an annualized basis, for the quarter ended March 31, 2025. This represents an increase of approximately 1.25%, or $0.0111 per common unit, as compared with the quarter ended December 31, 2024.
Neutral
Business Wire
2 days ago
Energy Transfer Announces Increase in Quarterly Cash Distribution
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) today announced an increase in its quarterly cash distribution to $0.3275 per Energy Transfer common unit ($1.31 on an annualized basis) for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. This cash distribution per Energy Transfer common unit will be paid on May 20, 2025 to unitholders of record as of the close of business on May 9, 2025, and is an increase of more than 3 percent as compared to the first quarter of 2024. In addition, as previously.
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