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Top stocks hitting 52-Week Highs/Lows - May 15, 2026 📈 📉
Why Midstream Pipelines Are Catching Fire Right Now, and the Companies Worth Watching
Why midstream pipelines are heating up again, and the names worth watching
Williams Companies (WMB) Northwest Pipeline just exploded
With Summer slowly winding down, has Oil and oil related stocks peaked?
The triple battle: who’s outperforming this week ?? WMB , DVN or OXY I keep buying these cheap energy stocks. Are you ready to take the train with me before the big banks come in and steal your seat ???
My Watchlist For 4/12/2021 -- Energy Is Primed So I Am Focusing That
Did i hit a call jackpot on $WMB? Whoa.
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I agree with IGV....looking at WMB, ok, good call. I thought you were trying to convince people to start trading nat gas....I got smoked on that when I first started trading. Never again. On that note: I like ETN and HPS-A(hammond power solutions), for the electrical component factor to these power plants....You can make power, but need the equipment to move it! I like the WMB play, but I think It is a tad "safe" for me. I'm young and can afford a bit more risk. As far as IGV, I would be the guy that picks out individual stocks in that sector (i'm slowly DCA'ing into MSFT, NOW and ADBE, among others), instead of an etf, expecting a rebound before years end.
Next rotation is natural gas for AI power. See WMB. Next comes software after the Anthropic IPO. Once the market knows who wins and who loses, it’s time to buy IGV
Nothinh too exotic. ETN, GEV, WMB, KMI, a few utilities and ome inffrastructure names. My thinking is pretty simple, everyone wants to own the AI winners, but somebody still has to provider the power, transmission, pipelines, and equipment that keep the economy running. They're not the kind of stocks that double overnight, but i think they're underrated compaed to how much attention they're getting
Yeah, but WMB options have similar IV for just a single stock vs. ETF, seems like a no braino. (I used to drink a lot of braino so take my advice with a grain of salt).
WMB chart is melting my crayons. Domestic natural gas FTW. All energy prices are about to go boing-boing. I'm YOLO in quarterly ATM Calls.
holding onto my cheapo WMB calls
Interesting article, I own some FANG, PR, VIST, WMB, LIN - I guess these are too big for your rule? Interesting we both have similar thesis but I guess I'm opting for the more quality play, will probably be holding for a longer term. What are your thoughts on my picks?
LNG and WMB my regards
Add WMB to that list. Currently doing before-the-meter power generation for AI data centers.
It’s relevant for AI but is also relevant for industries that require large scale energy input like manufacturing. If not nuclear then BTM solutions like WMB and ENEL for short term. If you think growth isn’t possible without revenue then you haven’t been paying attention.
# Energy (4 stocks)Equal-weight: +31.65% |Ticker|Name|Dec 22, 2025|Apr 28, 2026|% Change|JPM Target| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |**DVN**|Devon Energy|$36.24|$48.20|\+33.00%|$44.00| |**SLB**|SLB|$38.11|$55.23|\+44.94%|$43.00| |**WMB**|The Williams Companies, Inc.|$58.50|$71.61|\+22.41%|$73.00| |**XOM**|Exxon Mobil Corp|$117.37|$148.19|\+26.26%|$124.00| |**Category Average**|—|—|**+31.65%**|—|
# Energy |**Ticker**|**Dec 22, 2025 Price**|**Apr 28, 2026 Price**|**% Change**| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |**DVN**|$42.15|$48.28|\+14.54%| |**ETR**|$108.40|$122.50|\+13.01%| |**GEV**|$653.57|$1,118.98|\+71.21%| |**SLB**|$52.40|$58.10|\+10.88%| |**WMB**|$45.30|$52.15|\+15.12%| |**XOM**|$119.54|$148.81|\+24.49%| |**Category Average**|||**+24.87%**|
In this environment, energy producers and infrastructure are a good safe hedge. There are companies that operate the energy infrastructure like a toll-booth. Whatever the price of energy is, they get a cut. So their stock price rises on bad news surrounding the strait of Hormuz. Energy producers like COP, CVX, VLO, FANG, CRAK Energy infrastructure tollbooth like KMI, AEP, WMB, EPD This strategy should help counter any losses you’ll get in the tech sector for the next coming months.
I didn't see any blood yet I have a long-term portfolio KO, MRK T BP WMB .Most were up today..
KO BP MRK WMB T Been good to me
WMB has been good to me forever. I j s
Bummed I never added WMB, holding just KMI lol
Back in fiber build out I bough WCG, Willaims Communcations. Williams (WMB) is an energy company that was laying fiber with it's pipeline and it sounded like a great narrative. I have a friend working for Kewitt and they were backlogged for a long time laying fiber for Level 3 Communications. They had orders booked, sounded like a smart play to me. So long story short. WCG had all the debt and it got spun off and the fiber company went bankrupt a year later. This is how I learned to that a spin-off isn't always the best thing for the company being spun off. It's how companies unload massive debt on a hot commodity. It did unlock some shareholder value though, for the parent company.
Thought about it but with with a few companies instead. XOM, SLB, WMB, COP, and some XLE because it's cheap.
Shifted out of remaining IPP positions a couple weeks ago (further negative IPP discussion: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_bv50iW0AAiU6i?format=jpg&name=900x900.) Added more elsewhere like turbine names and services (wish I'd bought more BW at the beginning of the year), more to CCJ, new TPL, more to EQT and pipelines like WMB/KMI. More copper, more gold mining.
Energy feels like such a weird area this year. I do agree that WTI/Brent will have a tough year. Like, Permian E&P's should continue to see pressures with low WTI (with their breakeven in the mid 50's). The two big U.S. vertically integrated names should be OK as they have a ton of different exposures (oxy-blends, natural gas, carbon capture, etc.). The refiners may do well if the crack spread stays favorable for them but they had a strong year in 2025. Personally I like natural gas, particularly the midstream operators (long-term volume and take-or-pays), field compression and compressor services. Like KMI/WMB for midstream, KGS/AROC for compression (AROC has some field services), and NGS/EFXT for compressor services.
VST TLN CEG NRG and take it out to natural gas and add EQT WMB AM and so on. First couple all probably a little overheated still, went up crazy all summer. Natural gas stuff still a little weird with commodity futures still tied to “is it cold” and not “how much of this juice does META need”. Not FA
I mean I haven’t looked specifically at VG. As I mentioned in another comment, you could apply the same thesis to other peers. I have looked at OKE and WMB as other considerations in the sector. ET already having scored a deal with Oracle and Cloud Burst as well as a deal to supply natural gas for the hypergrid campus developer Fermi. Being mostly located in Texas and the southeast part of the country, I feel like ET has better strategic positioning as well as existing infrastructure. They are one of the main players in their region. Other areas I would look at is the Pacific Northwest which is I think WMB mainly, but those two areas of the country I feel like will be targets for data center hubs. ET last earnings also mentioned they had potential deals being negotiated with other hyperscalers under confidentiality agreements. I did the rough math for the Oracle deal for 3 data centers and that suggested about $100M in annual revenue, $60M to $70M in Ebitda, and $20M to $30M in net income. There are thousands of data centers in the works. Here’s the map from their last earnings presentation. https://preview.redd.it/j6gs3cc8311g1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e6dc9ae0635220a621de146374d1b6b4d031825
Extreme fear in gas and oil prices and volumes, oil prices dipped considerably back at that point as did natural gas. They were attempting a merger with WMB at the time and that deal completely fell through and WMB sued. Sentiment was completely eroded for oil and gas producers and midstream companies. ET was perceived as risky given the environment given the over leveraged debt. Those particular conditions don’t exist right now. I was wondering when I first started research whether it was cyclical or a one off. It seems more or less like a one off like covid. Black swan events are still a real risk. But I don’t think same level of risk applies given lessons learned.
I avoid upstream oil plays personally. Too much boom and bust with WTI dependence. I stick with the vertically integrated, CVX is my preferred. I prefer pure play natural gas names. Upstream would be EQT. On the midstream side I like KMI, although WMB is solid as well. I like KGS for compression services as they are pure natural gas play in the Permian only, focusing on high horsepower, high margin equipment. Their debt level I am not thrilled for but it’s a capital intensive business. I might get out and jump over to NGS. NXT is a great company, I just never pulled the trigger. Might add some but not sure what is a good entry, see it’s down a bit today.
Took profits just before market close: - Closed Calls A: ETN PLTR WMB UBER ZTS - Closed Calls B: HUT HALO BWXT
Midstream companies moving natural gas around the country - KMI, ET, WMB etc
AI infrastructure: NBIS Natural Gas: FCG WMB LNG EQT Nuclear: CEG BWXT
If you are talking about O&B then look at KMI and WMB. Both midstream nat gas pipeline operators. Their valuations are a but rich compared to their historic valuations but are both the best plays in this sector. Otherwise I prefer the two integrated names.
While nuclear of late is getting all the attention, particularly new builds, just want to note as much as I am excited for nuclear, realistically a new facility will not break ground during this administration. Maybe if they speed the process up, but even then 2-3 years away. Natural gas is going to continue to be the base load. If you look at any of the RTO pages (PJM, MISO, ISONE, ERCOT) you’ll see coal is a very large portion still. They have run up pretty well, but I’d add to midstream plays KMI and WMB if you haven’t looked at them yet.
WMB is over $60 today 👀
This isn't financial advice, but you might want to take a peek at the 9/19 WMB $55 calls. My buy zone is between $57 and $59, and I'm eyeing a take profit at $64 or higher. If WMB closes below $57 on a Friday, I'll be making my exit the following Monday. If you find yourself scratching your head, just hop over to my profile and check out my WMB trade post for more details. For full transparency, I jumped into this position at $4.70. FYI, I'd love to sell for a 100% profit, but I'm going to play it by ear. P.S. Don't let the trolls get you down. All you need is a bit of education, a solid play or two, and a strategy you can follow like clockwork. This should help get your mentals in a better place. Good luck, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
How much of a role is nat gas going to play in electricity generation? Things like EQT and pipelines like WMB are not going to be home runs but I think are somewhat underappreciated. In terms of nuclear, there are a number of foreign stocks that benefit. The NUKZ etf is a mostly good list of names, as thematic etfs go. GRID is another etf where you might find a few worthwhile names in the holdings. And really - not saying that these names are 9th inning or something. I think best case scenario they could continue to do well over the coming years and given the nature of these projects, they aren't going to play out overnight. However, I just think some caution when looking at something like GEV up 300% in a year (and something like 15%) yesterday and is technically overbought. If anything, something to gradually, opportunistically DCA into. The other thing that people aren't talking about is water. There was an article in the WSJ the other day talking about neighbors of Meta's data center not having any water, articles like this (https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-announces-huge-new-data-centers-but-they-could-gobble-up-millions-of-gallons-of-water-per-day-174000478.html) IMO, that makes something like the rainwater harvesting systems from Watts Water (WTS) kinda interesting (https://www.watts.com/raincycle; there's a data center example on that page.) Again, not going to be a home run but the idea that massive data centers can harvest rainwater and use it rather than drawing from municipalities is a sollution that I think will be increasingly appealing. Obviously, power/grid is going to be the biggest winner (and for a lot of names already has) and probably the thing that people will allocate to most, but water use is something to think about to a lesser degree, as are nat gas producers/pipelines.
I was big on the pipelines last year and did so well with WMB, KMI, MPLX, and EPD. Now they’re stuck, but the fundamentals remain solid and there’s lots of growth ahead. I keep wondering if the market is pricing in some sort of domestic economy/energy slowdown due to tariffs in the back half of 25 and into 26.
I don't feel like typing out a massive post but here's a gem for you folks on this fine Sunday morning: There is a play to be made right now rotating into nat gas and coal and playing nuclear off and on as we advance rapidly toward fulfilling our new energy requirements in the United States. Short-term energy generation will be dominated by nat gas then coal, and eventually nuclear will become more stable, so play it the way we have literally been told by our energy secretary Chris Wright, (who btw sat on the board of OKLO until not long ago) - he has literally told us that energy generation will transition as I have mentioned. I believe most people are radically underestimating how important this transition into a new post-AI world is, and it will affect companies like NVDA, CAT, OKLO, BTU and a ton of others. You've got to think BIG. What's really going to happen? Land will be cleared and SMRs built (CAT & OKLO), that energy will be used by companies running advanced AI models (Google, OpenAI) using chips by who (NVdia), etc... Our world is changing dramatically, and for young investors there is the potential for life-altering ROI over th next five years. This time in history is like the birth of the internet. We knew it was life-changing, but even then in the late 90s and early 2000s we could not have pictured the internet of today. That's what people will say about AI. We just simply cannot fathom how radically different it will be 10 years from now and advancements are happening exponentially this go around. For the AI / energy play I'm currently rotating in and out of companies like OKLO, holding NVDA and adding over time, rotating into BTU and WMB and others, and holding and adding to CAT as well. That's not the whole thing, but you get the point. Good luck everyone.
Heh, I like this game. WMB dipped yesterday, bought one n, and it goes up. Nice grabber.
$WMB report very impressive. They are diversifying from their core pipeline business in the correct direction imo - instead of moving upstream into G&P, moving downstream into storage, direct service, and market intelligence with Sequent. Valuation more challenging now but execution has been outstanding IMO
WMB-- party like it's 1895...guessing pipelines are the new...er,...pipelines
Love my WMB right now. Dividend, growth etc.
My $WMB 3/21 60c gonna look juicy ones these tariffs hit and trump sends natural gas skyrocketing
Buying $WMB a couple years ago at $15 was incredibly easy, as was adding in the $25-35 range over the next few years, but it's hard to shake the fear that it's now getting overvalued at $60. Already trimmed back my position and trying to decide if I need to exit entirely. Anyone else in this one? We're up to almost 15x P/FCF
Hate the MPL structure and waiting for a K1. I prefer WMB…although I did make a sizable amount of money on ET, before liquidating my holdings.
Similar situation. I liquidated a little and sold some losers, only to buy another loser CVS as well as some KO. I am doing a weekly three way of VOO / SCHD / QQM. I don’t have the heart to liquidate more AAPL, but part of me doesn’t want to worry anymore. KO, WMB, VZ, SCHD for dividend plays.
Dude look at these fucking people. I only came on. Reddit bc of the GME. incident and it took two years In am so full of knowledge I can 3x to 10x you guys in 6-12 months. These crossing gurds wanna ban books. What have I said that bad besides explain how the system works. I AM AN ON HERE ONE REASON. HEDGE FUND BIYS KIMOED ON HERE AFTER GME. And I wanna fuck with those novices who can cap raise of the backs of the prime broker and ballet founder when hedge fund were the bomb in the early 2000’s. Anyway 1. Hedge fund losers you can front run and inflate bit but your only move is the bond market and NIVIDIA 2. Palantir moderators go take the fucking $35 that you made over the past quarter go down to the local hardware store buy some brass fishing weights and time to your nuts so least some brass will be hanging in your legs @palantir. 3. Wall Street bets . I’m waiting for you to boot me, but until then-/— below is a l gift $WMB has earnings in the November. 6 they have technology that has antiquated the industry. Itbwnqt be recognized for a while but the hedge funds and institutional derivative traders are know. Get yourself in November 55-57 calls. I got in about a week ago and I’m three X… still get in you’ll get 3- https://preview.redd.it/kkuoargoezwd1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c69d519ebc7295a6bb32e9b3883d456307986f9c Then shit I’m just gonna disappear like Kaiser zsousai … and like that…
New 52 week highs for $WMB and $KMI. I bought Kinder Morgan for the 6% dividend. The stock has appreciated so much this year that the dividend yield is now down to 4.6%. Oil/gas pipelines and Gold which also hit another ATH today have helped this bear outperform the market this year.
I'll bite on a sector / subset of publics that isn't one of the single sentence answers permeating this thread - pureplay natural gas E&Ps . and probably midstream publics with an asset portfolio that skews nat gas, like KMI or WMB; same goes for public MLPs if you're banking on corporate tax rates to go back up ~35%. Mid-term macro forecast is favorable with (1) a number of LNG liquification projects coming online and finally moving volumes, (2) obvious demand pull from AI-driven / datacenter demand, (3) a good number of gas midstream infrastructure comes online (and also begin moving volumes) over the next few years as well. Most of these guys trade at (rough estimate) 1.5xish to NTM FCF or so, generally? Also most have pretty strong cash yield (in addition to a pretty cheap price) Examples of E&Ps include (off the top of my head) : CHK, AR, EQT, RRC Midstream / MLPs (also off the top of my head): KMI, WMB, ET, EPD, OKE
There is a pretty big divergence from the pipeline oil & gas stocks vs price of crude oil. Most pipelines like $KMI, $ENB, $WMB are trading near 52 week highs while the other $XLE stocks are all near 52 week lows. Now the pipelines pay nice dividends that are all mostly above the current US 10 yr interest rate so they have gotten buys from yield seeking investors. But, the pipelines make their money on the volume of crude oil, gasoline, and natty gas transported, NOT crude oil price. If there was no demand for crude oil & gasoline; than all the pipeline stocks should be trading near 52 week lows as their revenues would be crashing. I have been buying this dip this last week in the crude oil stocks.
I dedicate a large percent towards something I just believe in. It takes a few factors to get me to believe in something though. $4M Portfolio - 50%UBER 30%GME 20%WMB
I have had good success with energy transport sector in the past 10 years. Examples are MPLX, ET, and WMB. They trade at a discount due to the mistaken notion that fossil fuels will be phased out in the near future. As always, do your own research.
Also add in WES, KMI, WMB, EPD Not as much volume but I can get by. And the charts don't lie
What are you looking for? My overall favorite holding is still $TTWO but I only own one stock over $50B right now ($WMB, recently got there). Are you wanting diversification out of tech? Any specific sector? US or international?
Utilities minus the $NEE solar and wind utility stocks have been on an absolute tear, High dividend stocks like $KMI, $WMB, $MO, $PM are near 52 week highs. This is a recession trade market. US10 year is moving lower, so many of the blue chip divy stocks are moving higher. Many Utility and Crude Oil stocks have nice dividends.
There are stocks moving higher. I own $KMI and Kinder Morgan put in a new 52 week high this morning. $WMB also put in a new 52 week high today. People here are super focused on Tech. I bet no one else has mentioned oil & gas line stocks here in over 1-2 months.
GOOGL, AMZN the big tend to get bigger, been in GOOGL since just after the IPO and AMZN for 12 years. OKE, WMB, ET - all that tech needs energy, and no matter what the Henry Hub price is these folks get paid to move it. HOOD - I can see this turning into a legit financial services company and their app is my fav.
You are referring to quarterly earnings when you say "WMB posted last earnings well over a dollar per share" but the E in P/E is typically the last 12 months' earnings. So if the loss from the previous three quarters is more than the gain of the last quarter, P/E will still be negative. P/E typically uses a full year of earnings because a lot of businesses exhibit quarterly seasonality. But if a business is growing consistently quarter over quarter, P/E will be a somewhat lagging indicator.
New 52 week highs today for $WMB and $KMI. The oil & gas pipeline stocks are boring and don't move much day to day; but they have done very well in 2024. They also payout nice dividends, even thou dividends are reddit's kryptonite : )
ET, PAA, WES, REI, WMB - calls
That's great. May I recommend that you consider changing MPC to one of the companies in the south central region? For energy look at Enterprise Products (EPD), Williams Companies (WMB), and Diamondback Energy (FANG). When it comes to petroleum and natural gas, the south central region (Texas, Oklahoma) tends to be the most productive, stable investment. Other regions are less stable, often because of politics.
I feel confident about my choices as I lightened up on AAPL the last day of July. I started over a series of weeks going into CHX, OXY, WMB, XOM and EQT with proceeds. I have no problem holding fossil fuel stocks for next 10 years.
You did not say how old you are or when you want to buy the house, which is important info. An inheritance is not money to "gamble". I would recommend putting half into 1-2-3 yr CDs trying to get close to 5% annual return. I would take the other half (&75K?) and put into blue chip qualified dividend paying stocks (ABBV, WMB, O, VALE, MO...) and just take dividends as cash and put into more 1 yr. CD's and generate cash towards a down-payment. In other words, take the $150K and let that make you money. I got an inheritance and I now have $2K/mo in dividends that I use for my monthly house payment, and I don't touch/lower that nest egg, just use it to generate those monthly funds.
That makes sense, because this is an interstate pipeline that is used for routing large volumes of natural gas between states. Just like your house's driveway doesn't go straight onto the interstate, your local gas line is hooked up to the much smaller distribution network of the local gas company, which has its own storage and can probably find other sources of gas if need be. Doesn't really say anything about whether it will or will not be costly for WMB.
Yeah, it might turn out to be a nothing burger if they can repair it quickly. I honestly have no idea how long it will take to repair. I imagine we will get some type of statement or press release from Williams tomorrow. I don't think they can *completely* ignore one of their main pipelines going down without releasing some sort of update or statement. But the economic impact for WMB may end up being rather minor if there is enough storage capacity on both ends and the line is repaired quickly. The story has finally hit the AP at least: https://apnews.com/article/gas-line-explosion-idaho-town-evacuated-47c4c5df577ed0e6d52245eb6d084b96
WMB... im mildly intrested in kicking 200 bucks into 2 week out puts for 32.5.. chart looks great, i always straddle so maybe 34 dollar calls. Its an energy company.. im just going by the chart dividend just came out. It tends to meltdown or run sidesways.
$WMB - largest pureplay NG midstream company (to my knowledge)
Circles are a terrible way to asses relative scale, FRB + SVB are the same as WMB but they don’t look it to my eye.
But from your posts you are loosing on F, T, and WMB… honestly I don’t care what you do with your money but to have credibility you shouldn’t be in here lying and cursing any members attempting to have an intellectual debate and conversation in best places to invest.
Go ahead and go through my posts. Idgaf. F, T, WMB, NYCB are all part of my dividend portfolio. And no they’re not losers because I’m up on all of them, except WMB. I’m pretty flat there. But keep talking. Thanks for input kiddo but Go back to bitcoin and GME and leave actual investing to the rest of us.
WMB pure play NG midstream with the most important pipeline network in the US (Transco)
LOL WMB got killed off years ago. Minor detail. But yeah, clearly more banks are going to have liquidity problems as the Fed keeps interest rates high and ordinary people move their money into higher rate bearing savings accounts and CDs. Hard for banks to make money when they're illiquid, especially if their commercial loan clients are in default.
I am long commodity stocks. My largest stock holdings are $GOLD, $MOS, $KMI, $HAL, and $CLF. I am not buying $GOLD here. I love gold but I prefer buying the gold miners when gold is around $1800 or lower and I am not buying when it's above $1900/ounce. The $XLE stocks have a better upside IMHO. The pipeline stocks like $ET, $WMB, and $KMI are the risk adverse $XLE stocks to buy here. Lower reward but also lower risk to catch dividend yield rates similar & above US treasuries.
Stay away from NG future stocks like $BOIL. If you want to BTD in NG look at the pipelines like $KMI, $ET, and $WMB. Your local NG utility company might also be worth BTD. But do your own DD.
I don't do options. I tried a few times in 2021. Was not good. I generally try to take positions. In this case, if I was looking for something, it might be UNG ticker. Or if I want to get cute, a leveraged ticker like BOIL. Companies I might consider for Natural Gas, Cheniere (LNG), Chesapeake (CHK), Energy Transfer (ET), Williams (WMB). One speculative I keep an eye on is Tellurian (TELL).
I'm up a little under 5%. I mainly buy large cap dividend stocks but some smaller ones, not a whole lot though. I had good timing selling a portion of my stocks when they become too big a percentage of my portfolio. The Williams Companies WMB was one of my largest holdings going into this year and it grew to be >10% of my total so I sold half and bought Walmart after it crashed. Amazing luck getting to buy Walmart at $120! Also used some to buy JPM under $115 which was a gift. Seriously, who sells JPM under $120! I made a mistake and bought Ross stores ROST before earnings in April and lost, but it's back to green now. I've had a lot of Aflac AFL stock for years but it got too big and I sold 25% last week. I decided to break from my norm and used half that money on Simulations Plus SLP and the other half on Bond ETFs. I bought ILTB and just to experiment how it works I bought 10 shares of IBTD, plan on using paycheck contributions and dividends from this month to by 10 shares of the next two in the series IBTE and IBTF. Oh yeah, I'm also adding to my recent losers, mostly Verizon VZ. 7% dividend is just crazy! I'm almost always 100% invested. Just sell high and buy low, stay away from the stocks everyone loves and pick up some hated oversold bargains and hold for years.
>I recommend the following plays: 1. UBER float used: 239% FCF yield: 29% Exp. Cash: 150M Thesis based on factors: Close to value Play: 12/23 27C @ 1.08 2. TAL Float used: 92% FCF yield: -27% Exp. cash:-348M Thesis based on factors:: Overvalued Play 12/23 6P @ .63 3.. WMB Float used:: 69% FCF yield 27%.Exp,Cash 10BThesis based on factors overvaluedPlay12/233P@65 4.. MPC Float used 72 %FCFYield 8%,Exp 106BCashThesisbasedonfactorsovervalue dPlay12 / 23100 P @ 1 06 XOMFloatused 87 F CFYiel d13X.,335 BcashTh esisbasedonfa ct orsclose t ovaluePla y1 2 / 2 3108 C@110 SIRIFloatused122'oCFYieI21',7 BCas hThe s isb asedon fact or sslightlyunderval ue play :1211 5p
|Tickers of interest|| :--|:--| |\*\*UBER\*\*\*\*Float used: 239%\*\*\*\*FCF yield: 29%\*\*\*\*Exp. Cash: 150M\*\*\*\*Thesis based on factors: Close to value\*\*\*\*Play: 12/23 27C @ 1.08\*\*|| |\*\*TAL\*\*\*\*Float used: 92%\*\*\*\*FCF yield: -27%\*\*\*\*Exp. cash: -348M\*\*\*\*Thesis based on factors: Overvalued\*\*\*\*Play: 12/23 6P @ .63\*\*\*\*\*\*\ || |\*\*WMB\*\*\*\*Float used: 69%\*\*\*\*FCF yield: 27%\*\*\*\*Exp. Cash:10B\*\*\*\*Thesis based on factors: Overvalued\*\*\*\*Play: 12/23 33P @ .65\*\*|| |\*\*MPC\*\*\*\*Float used: 72%\*\*\*\*FCF yield: 8%\*\*\*\*Exp. Cash: 106B\*\*\*\*Thesis based on factors: Overvalued\*\*\*\*Play: 12/23 100P @ 1.06\*\*|| |\*\*XOM\*\*\*\*Float used: 87%\*\*\*\*FCF yield: 13%\*\*\*\*Exp. Cash: 335B\*\*\*\*Thesis based on factors: Close to value\*\*\*\*Play: 12/23 108C @ 1.10\*\*|| |\*\*SIRI\*\*\*\*Float used: 122%\*\*\*\*FCF yield: 21%\*\*\*\*Expect. Cash: 7B\*\*\*\*Thesis based on factors: Slightly under value\*\*\*\*Play: 12/23 6P @ .15\*\*|| |\*\*XPEV\*\*\*\*Float used: 204%\*\*\*\*FCF yield: -16%\*\*\*\*Exp Cash: -11B\*\*\*\*Thesis based on factors: Overvalued\*\*\*\*Play: 12/23 9P @ .37\*\*|| |\*\*CGC\*\*\*\*Float used: 95%\*\*\*\*Exp. Cash: -4M\*\*\*\*FCF yield: 8%\*\*\*\*Thesis based on factors: Overvalued\*\*\*\*Play: 12/23 3P @ .26\*\*\ \*\*Trading Thesis : Tracking the float along with daily volume along with company financials helps to narrow down moving tickers\*\*Fundamental and technical analysis is often used to find growth tickers and information about them. Fundamental analysis looks to see whether an investment is overvalued or undervalued based on underlying economic conditions, as well as the finances of the company or other organization that issued a stock or bond. Technical analysis instead looks at patterns in the price of an investment to predict future movements in that investment’s price.\*I look for tickers that are trading at least 2 million in volume a day, with a Market-cap of no less that 500 million.\*\*The shares traded are compared to the average volume to determine how much of the float is used ( Or shares traded). That information is compiled with data on how profitable the company is and how much cash do they have compared to what is expected.\*\*\*Things to consider when finding the plays-\*\*If the stock volume has traded 1 million or more in volume premarket, I will use that and calculate a rough estimate on what the stock will trade for the day.If the ticker looks to be trading more volume than the day before, I would consider it for a long play. If trading less than the movement of the ticker, I would consider a short or put play. ( If all the other factors previously mentioned checks out. )The trades are researched afternoon daily To find possible tickers making a big move.||
If you're asking for non-LP midstreams, there are plenty. Off the top of my head: ENB (Canadian), KMI (American), WMB (American), OKE (American).
Tickers of interest. $ VFC Float used: -50 FCF yield: 27% Exp. Cash: 1,2B Thesis based on factors: Overvalued Play: Short 32P 12/16/22 @ 1.05 $MDLZ Float used: -57% FCF yield: 9.8% Exp. cash: 2.4B Thesis based on factors: Close to value Play: Short 66P 12/16/22 @ .35 $WMB Float used: 151% FCF yield: 26.6% Exp. Cash:2.7B Thesis based on factors: Close to value Play: Short 34P 12/16/22 @ .35 $ EBAY Float used: 142% FCF yield: 15% Exp. Cash: 10B Thesis based on factors: Close to value Play: Short: 45P 12/16/22 @ 1.06 $OXY Float used: -54% FCF yield: 33% Ex. Cash: 33B Thesis based on factors: Close to value Play: Long 70C 12/23/22 @ 1.90 $ATVI Float used: 105% FCF yield: 27% Expect. Cash: 11B Thesis based on factors: Slightly under value Play: Long 77c 12/16/2022 @ 1.00 Speculative ticker: $ DRI Float used: 67% FCF yield: 11.1% Exp Cash: 1B Thesis based on factors: Overvalued Play: Short 165p 12/16/22 @ 1.60 Trading Thesis : Tracking the float along with daily volume along with company financials helps to narrow down moving tickers Fundamental and technical analysis is often used to find growth tickers and information about them. Fundamental analysis looks to see whether an investment is overvalued or undervalued based on underlying economic conditions, as well as the finances of the company or other organization that issued a stock or bond. Technical analysis instead looks at patterns in the price of an investment to predict future movements in that investment’s price. I look for tickers that are trading at least 2 million in volume a day, with a Market-cap of no less that 500 million. The shares traded are compared to the average volume to determine how much of the float is used ( Or shares traded). That information is compiled with data on how profitable the company is and how much cash do they have compared to what is expected. Things to consider when finding the plays- \* If the stock volume has traded 1 million or more in volume premarket, I will use that and calculate a rough estimate on what the stock will trade for the day. \* If the ticker looks to be trading more volume than the day before, I would consider it for a long play. If trading less than the movement of the ticker, I would consider a short or put play. ( If all the other factors previously mentioned checks out. ) \* The trades are researched afternoon daily To find possible tickers making a big move.
1) There is likely to be a lame duck spending bill and debt ceiling increase that will include a solid defense spending increase and money for Ukraine for the next year 2) In 2023, there is likely to be a bipartisan approach to securing US energy security. This will likely benefit energy infrastructure companies like EPD and WMB. After that is done, the GOP will ramp up partisan investigations in the Biden administration and any material legislation is dead in the water.
WMB calls for earnings at close
WMB $29 calls @ 10/7. Opinions are welcome
I love big oil plays like XOM and CVX as investments, but they are so vilified by a certain political party that I would not be surprised if their profitability falls due to increased taxation, pro-green legislation, loss of tax credits, climate change lawsuits (resulting in needless attorney/legal fee expenditures, and pollution surcharges (aka more taxes). If you are looking for energy plays to diversify your tech-heavy portfolio, consider more pure-play natural gas plays such as LNG, EE, WMB, OKE, or SWN. While their dividends may not be as high yielding, natural gas prices will seemingly remain in the $8-10+ MCF range while the Russia-Ukraine war presses on, with a colder winter and hot summer serving as an additional upside catalyst
# Tickers of Interest **Gamma Max Cross** * [WMB](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#WMB) 10/21 35P for $1.35 or less * [GEO](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#GEO) 10/21 8P for $0.40 or less * [UEC](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#UEC) 10/21 4.5P for $0.60 or less * [WEBR](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#WEBR) 10/21 7.5P for $1.05 or less * [UUUU](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#UUUU) 10/21 7P for $0.55 or less **Delta Neutral Cross** * [MS](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#MS) 10/21 87.5C for $3.40 or less * [U](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#U) 10/21 45C for $5.30 or less * [RTX](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#RTX) 10/21 95C for $2.40 or less * [LOW](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#LOW) 10/21 205C for $5.35 or less * [DDOG](https://options.hardyrekshin.com/#DDOG) 10/21 105P for $9.45 or less # Trading Thesis Technical analysis and indicator based trading tend to use past price performance in order to predict important price levels today. This analysis is based on the current option open interest. With that option open interest, it calculates portfolio-level greeks--notably Delta and Gamma. More importantly, once the portfolio level greeks are established, I can now simulate the change in greeks at different price points. From there, I can find the price levels where portfolio-level gamma is the highest, and the portfolio-level delta is close to 0. For some tickers, the underlying price reacts strongly off of delta neutral, gamma max, and sometimes both. It's the reaction off of these price levels in the past that is being used to drive trading signals. The plays and target entry prices given are calculated using a binomial option pricing model that reflect the expected size and duration of the reaction from gamma max or delta neutral. A lot of these plays are profitable by underlying moves in stock. The best plays benefit from the directional move as well as the increase in IV. # Notes * If the price has moved past the entry price, exercise caution. Someone knows something that I don't know. * Look to sell half your position on a double, and freeroll the rest to exit at your discretion. * I tend to risk up to 1% of my total capital on any trades I take. If my conviction is lower, I'll only allocate 0.5% or even 0.25% of my capital to the trade, and dollar cost average in. # FAQ * These plays are mostly puts. Are you a gay bear? * No. It so happens that the companies have had some recent run-up which implies they are overextended. These trades are primarily some form of mean-reversion either toward or away from an important price level. * Are you entering all these plays? * No. There have been a dearth of plays in the WSB morning talks, and so I opened up my bag of tools slightly wider to point out more plays with a probable edge to help lead apes to more gain porn. Go through this curated list of plays, pick the ones you like based on whatever additional analysis you use, and get that gain porn.
$KMI. Kinder Morgan pays out roughly 50% of their earnings as dividends for a current forward dividend yield of over 6%. Gas & Oil pipelines also tend to be less volatile than Oil stocks as they are less affected by oil prices and more by natural gas & oil volume they transport. And there isn't a lot of political appetite to build more pipelines. $WMB is another good choice. These stocks will not appreciate much but if you reinvest the dividends you will get a compounding dividend affect.
Currently eating SIRI and WMB puts 🤷🏼♂️ here's hoping to a bad day at the office for Wall Street.
Buy the gasoline refiners like $COP & $PSX. The pipelines stocks like $KMI & $WMB will printing tendies as well with 5-6% boomer dividends.
If you haven't found a good way to buy gold yet - it is ok - just buy oil instead. you will be happier. chevron, exxon, marathon, oxy, DINO, Murphy Oil, BP, Shell, Valero, Oasis, EOG, WLL, VNOM, CTRA, WLL, WMB, EQT, VMI -
WMB isn't an MLP, they changed that a few years ago.
One of my biggest holdings in Bank of NY Mellon BK, nice dividend, super safe, should do really well 2nd half of this year as more of their older short term treasury bonds mature and are replaced by higher yield ones. Next is Suncor, Canadian oil sands, making piles of cash and committed to returning a lot to shareholders. Nice dividend now and very likely more raises in the future. Aflac is another one of my top holdings, slow and steady in the upward direction year after year. Williams Companies WMB is a bit pricey now, I had to sell half of what I had since it ran up so much, but it's a pipeline operator for natural gas and just collecting tolls. It inappropriately moves on the price of gas even though it's not very exposed to the price, just collecting tolls on the pipeline. If it falls to under $30 it wouldn't be a bad pick.
>The second-best option is usually to rebalance your stock portfolio to shift it into industries that do well in an inflationary environment. So, when inflation surges, what industries do best for a stock portfolio? Well, think about it for a second. What causes baseline prices to rise? E.g. what sort of goods or services does just about every economic participant need to remain as a going concern? Land / Real Estate - most businesses today need a physical space to occupy to conduct business Energy - all businesses need to get their products from suppliers / to customers/ from A to B. So upstream oil and gas companies thrive, although if you're buying in now, you're probably buying in at the very top..... Industrials / Capital Intensive businesses - Generally companies / businesses that fund capex and large projects with debt (that was priced at a time when FFR was lower than it is today and into the near-term). Most capital intensive businesses (telecom, steel, interstate pipelines, LNG liquification businesses, etc) are able to fund big capex projects with a high amount of debt because they've generally locked into fixed, long term contracts with customers where they are contractually guaranteed future cash payments well out into the future (10 - 20+ years), assuming these customers remain solvent for the duration of the contract / not going into Ch11 or Ch13 reorganization (counterparty risk) - Cheniere is a pretty good example of this (LNG and CQP) but also any big interstate pipeline player (ENB, EPD, ET, KMI, MMP, WMB, etc).
+10% YTD. I'm about 25% energy and 25% financials. I like to do the thing where you buy low so I didn't own any of the stuff that had huge drops. I've sold half my pipeline stock WMB and bought more banks after they dropped, sold the KO that I had for a year and a half and used that to double my small Walmart position at $120, and bought TREX at $59.75. I also sold 25% of my Checkpoint CHKP that I've held for two and a half years at $142 and bought 20 shares of FB at $175. Limit buy orders are great, just set a wish price then go to work. Check back a week later and see if it hit. I used the rest of that to buy SCL at $99. My biggest mistake so far was doubling my position in ROST right before earnings, 45 shares at $104. Ouch. I get paid again in a week plus some dividends so I'll just do some more bottom fishing. Set a limit order for something that looks like a bottom and wait. Percentage wise I'm lite on health care stocks so maybe try to pick up a biotech that's been slaughtered. Maybe some CRISPR?
I think only WMB and CVX are at/near 52 week highs in my portfolio. Everything else I own looks like your screenshot.
I sold a quarter of my Checkpoint CHKP and half of my Williams Companies WMB. Each one had gotten to be over 10% of my entire portfolio. I still like both stocks, but I couldn't justify having that much concentrated without knowing a good reason for them to keep going up. I'm using that cash to buy more Bank of NY Mellon (BK). It's fallen almost back to my cost basis when I was buying January through April of 2021 even though they are going to be making even more money with the higher short term interest rates. I didn't think I'd get this kind of opportunity again, but I'll take it. Also bought some JPMORGAN JPM and Stepan company SCL. Not huge amounts, but it's a start.
You might want to consider adding WMB to that lineup. 🚀
Natural Gas & Oil - WMB 🚀 Gold - GLDM 🚀 Green Days
GLDM & WMB have been very good for my portfolio and I believe they will continue to be for quite a while