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Friday, June 27, 2008

Oil soaring up 3 dollars...dow down 150. Rubber band getting stretched in here.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

If MLP's are so cheap, why aren't MLP's acquiring other MLP's???

Anonymous said...

They won't do that until the yields get over 10. Then it becomes accretive to do so. That's why Atlas stopped dropping when it was yielding exactly 10. If it gets higher, one of the major MLPs would buy it.

Of course no one will touch CLMT (sitting at 12%) until they are sure the convenants aren't going to be broken.

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure where you got your "rule of 10".

PAA bought PPX when it was yielding around 8% a couple of years ago. You need synergies for acquistions to work in addition to assets being cheap, and there are a lot of cheap assets out there now.

Anonymous said...

There may be cheap assests but the cost of capital has gone up so when PAA bought PPX they had access to much cheaper money.

Obviously 10 isn't a magic number, my point was that is probably a minimum before deals would happen.

Anonymous said...

Point taken, although the KMP's and EPD's of this space still have pretty good access to reasonably cheap capital.