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5 quality energy stocks with high dividend yields propelled by soaring oil prices

These stocks have dividend yields as high as 5.91%, and the companies never cut dividends after oil

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And even with WTI's price rising 68% this year to $82.32 a barrel and feeding a bounce in energy-stock prices, there's a long way to go before it returns to its 10-year high.</p>\n<p>And that points to the simple quality test: Which energy companies with attractive dividend yields were able to avoid cutting their payouts through oil's brutal decline that reversed last year?</p>\n<p>Quality energy dividend stock screen</p>\n<p>There are 107 energy stocks in the Russell 3000 Index , which itself represents about 98% of the U.S. stock market by market capitalization. Among those stocks, 15 have dividend yields higher than 4%. That's a good yield in this market, where 10-year U.S. Treasury notes yield only 1.54%.</p>\n<p>Among those 15 companies, six have cut their dividends at least once over the past 10 years, while four (ONEOK Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/OKE\">$(OKE)$</a>, Exxon Mobil Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/XOM\">$(XOM)$</a>, Valero Energy Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VLO\">$(VLO)$</a> and Chevron Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CVX\">$(CVX)$</a>) not only avoided cutting their dividends, they raised them over the years. A fifth, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PSX\">Phillips 66</a> (PSX), initiated its dividend in 2012 and raised it from there. Four other companies initiated dividends in 2019 or 2021.</p>\n<p>The following table includes all 15 stocks, sorted by yield, with the five that didn't cut dividends during or after the long oil price slide marked in bold.</p>\n<table>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Company</td>\n   <td>Dividend yield</td>\n   <td>Estimated 2022 FCF yield</td>\n   <td>Estimated 2022 FCF \"headroom\"</td>\n   <td>Dividend comment</td>\n   <td>Market cap. ($mil)</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Antero Midstream Corp. AM</td>\n   <td>8.26%</td>\n   <td>8.21%</td>\n   <td>-0.05%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2021.</td>\n   <td>$5,204</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ALTM\">Altus Midstream Co</a>. Class A ALTM</td>\n   <td>7.05%</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>Initiated dividend in 2021.</td>\n   <td>$319</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Archrock Inc. AROC</td>\n   <td>6.65%</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2016.</td>\n   <td>$1,343</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FLMN\">Falcon Minerals Corp</a>. Class A FLMN</td>\n   <td>6.28%</td>\n   <td>12.91%</td>\n   <td>6.63%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2020.</td>\n   <td>$291</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Kinder Morgan Inc. Class P KMI</td>\n   <td>6.01%</td>\n   <td>9.22%</td>\n   <td>3.21%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2015.</td>\n   <td>$40,695</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>ONEOK Inc.OKE</td>\n   <td>5.91%</td>\n   <td>8.19%</td>\n   <td>2.28%</td>\n   <td>No cut.</td>\n   <td>$28,197</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Exxon Mobil Corp.XOM</td>\n   <td>5.70%</td>\n   <td>9.24%</td>\n   <td>3.55%</td>\n   <td>No cut.</td>\n   <td>$258,544</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Williams Cos. Inc. WMB</td>\n   <td>5.67%</td>\n   <td>8.70%</td>\n   <td>3.03%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2016.</td>\n   <td>$35,149</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ETRN\">Equitrans Midstream Corp</a>. ETRN</td>\n   <td>5.47%</td>\n   <td>-2.54%</td>\n   <td>-8.01%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2020.</td>\n   <td>$4,745</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SOI\">Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure Inc.</a> Class A SOI</td>\n   <td>5.20%</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>Initiated dividend in 2019.</td>\n   <td>$257</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Valero Energy Corp.VLO</td>\n   <td>5.02%</td>\n   <td>9.65%</td>\n   <td>4.63%</td>\n   <td>No cut.</td>\n   <td>$31,945</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Chevron Corp.CVX</td>\n   <td>4.97%</td>\n   <td>10.26%</td>\n   <td>5.28%</td>\n   <td>No cut.</td>\n   <td>$208,456</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>DT Midstream Inc. 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And even with WTI's price rising 68% this year to $82.32 a barrel and feeding a bounce in energy-stock prices, there's a long way to go before it returns to its 10-year high.</p>\n<p>And that points to the simple quality test: Which energy companies with attractive dividend yields were able to avoid cutting their payouts through oil's brutal decline that reversed last year?</p>\n<p>Quality energy dividend stock screen</p>\n<p>There are 107 energy stocks in the Russell 3000 Index , which itself represents about 98% of the U.S. stock market by market capitalization. Among those stocks, 15 have dividend yields higher than 4%. That's a good yield in this market, where 10-year U.S. Treasury notes yield only 1.54%.</p>\n<p>Among those 15 companies, six have cut their dividends at least once over the past 10 years, while four (ONEOK Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/OKE\">$(OKE)$</a>, Exxon Mobil Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/XOM\">$(XOM)$</a>, Valero Energy Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VLO\">$(VLO)$</a> and Chevron Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CVX\">$(CVX)$</a>) not only avoided cutting their dividends, they raised them over the years. A fifth, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PSX\">Phillips 66</a> (PSX), initiated its dividend in 2012 and raised it from there. Four other companies initiated dividends in 2019 or 2021.</p>\n<p>The following table includes all 15 stocks, sorted by yield, with the five that didn't cut dividends during or after the long oil price slide marked in bold.</p>\n<table>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Company</td>\n   <td>Dividend yield</td>\n   <td>Estimated 2022 FCF yield</td>\n   <td>Estimated 2022 FCF \"headroom\"</td>\n   <td>Dividend comment</td>\n   <td>Market cap. ($mil)</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Antero Midstream Corp. AM</td>\n   <td>8.26%</td>\n   <td>8.21%</td>\n   <td>-0.05%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2021.</td>\n   <td>$5,204</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ALTM\">Altus Midstream Co</a>. Class A ALTM</td>\n   <td>7.05%</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>Initiated dividend in 2021.</td>\n   <td>$319</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Archrock Inc. AROC</td>\n   <td>6.65%</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2016.</td>\n   <td>$1,343</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FLMN\">Falcon Minerals Corp</a>. Class A FLMN</td>\n   <td>6.28%</td>\n   <td>12.91%</td>\n   <td>6.63%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2020.</td>\n   <td>$291</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Kinder Morgan Inc. Class P KMI</td>\n   <td>6.01%</td>\n   <td>9.22%</td>\n   <td>3.21%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2015.</td>\n   <td>$40,695</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>ONEOK Inc.OKE</td>\n   <td>5.91%</td>\n   <td>8.19%</td>\n   <td>2.28%</td>\n   <td>No cut.</td>\n   <td>$28,197</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Exxon Mobil Corp.XOM</td>\n   <td>5.70%</td>\n   <td>9.24%</td>\n   <td>3.55%</td>\n   <td>No cut.</td>\n   <td>$258,544</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Williams Cos. Inc. WMB</td>\n   <td>5.67%</td>\n   <td>8.70%</td>\n   <td>3.03%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2016.</td>\n   <td>$35,149</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ETRN\">Equitrans Midstream Corp</a>. ETRN</td>\n   <td>5.47%</td>\n   <td>-2.54%</td>\n   <td>-8.01%</td>\n   <td>Cut in 2020.</td>\n   <td>$4,745</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SOI\">Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure Inc.</a> Class A SOI</td>\n   <td>5.20%</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>Initiated dividend in 2019.</td>\n   <td>$257</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Valero Energy Corp.VLO</td>\n   <td>5.02%</td>\n   <td>9.65%</td>\n   <td>4.63%</td>\n   <td>No cut.</td>\n   <td>$31,945</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Chevron Corp.CVX</td>\n   <td>4.97%</td>\n   <td>10.26%</td>\n   <td>5.28%</td>\n   <td>No cut.</td>\n   <td>$208,456</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>DT Midstream Inc. DTM</td>\n   <td>4.89%</td>\n   <td>7.59%</td>\n   <td>2.69%</td>\n   <td>Initiated dividend in 2021</td>\n   <td>$4,744</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/REPX\">Riley Exploration Permian</a> Inc. REPX</td>\n   <td>4.80%</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>Initiated dividend in 2021.</td>\n   <td>$503</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Phillips 66PSX</td>\n   <td>4.49%</td>\n   <td>10.61%</td>\n   <td>6.12%</td>\n   <td>Initiated dividend in 2012; no cut since.</td>\n   <td>$35,858</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Source: FactSet</td>\n   <td></td>\n   <td></td>\n   <td></td>\n   <td></td>\n   <td></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The table also includes estimated free cash flow yields for 2022, based on consensus estimates for free cash flow per share among analysts polled by FactSet, if available. For several of the smaller companies on the list, this information isn't available.</p>\n<p>A company's free cash flow is its remaining cash flow after capital expenditures. It is money that can be used for dividend increases, share buybacks, business expansion or for other corporate purposes. We can estimate a company's free cash flow yield by dividing the 2022 FCF estimate by the current share price. Comparing the FCF yield to the current yield shows plenty of \"headroom\" for the five highlighted stocks, providing some comfort to investors that the dividends will continue to flow, and maybe be increased.</p>\n<p>Click here for a broader screen of dividend stocks incorporating FCF yields. For that screen, Bill McMahon, chief investment officer at Charles Schwab Asset Management, said he preferred to avoid the highest-yielding dividend stocks because the high yields (and low share prices) might indicate trouble ahead. A moderate yield combined with a high FCF yield might point to better growth characteristics for a company, he said.</p>\n<p>But during the same interview, McMahon also said it would be good to balance a portfolio of stocks with moderate dividend yields well supported by FCF with higher-yielding stocks for income. The five companies highlighted above fit the bill, especially with so much indicated \"headroom\" for dividend increases.</p>\n<p>He also said that his team at Schwab Asset Management remained \"overweight\" energy stocks and that he expected \"the demand-side of the energy equation [to] continue to rise.\"</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"HCTI":"Healthcare Triangle, Inc.","FWRG":"First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.","CRCT":"Cricut, Inc.","CVX":"雪佛龙","PSX":"Phillips 66","OLPX":"Olaplex Holdings, Inc.","XOM":"埃克森美孚","OKE":"欧尼克（万欧卡）","TERN":"Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc.","VLO":"瓦莱罗能源"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2176121881","content_text":"These stocks have dividend yields as high as 5.91%, and the companies never cut dividends after oil prices began their long decline in 2014\nThe energy sector has been the best performer in the stock market this year as oil and natural gas prices have soared.\nAs a result, a number of energy companies that pay high dividends can be attractive to income-seeking investors at a time of low interest rates.\nBut if you're going for income, how do you measure quality within the group?\nFor energy stocks, a simple test can be applied.\nFirst, let's look at the movement of oil prices over the past 10 years, based on continuous forward-month contract prices for West Texas Intermediate crude oil $(WTI)$ , tracked by FactSet:\nWTI began a long decline from a 10-year intraday high of $112.24 a barrel on Aug. 28, 2013, although the painful drop began the following year.\nThe breakdown of demand during the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic was so extreme that forward-month contract prices dropped below zero momentarily in April 2020. And even with WTI's price rising 68% this year to $82.32 a barrel and feeding a bounce in energy-stock prices, there's a long way to go before it returns to its 10-year high.\nAnd that points to the simple quality test: Which energy companies with attractive dividend yields were able to avoid cutting their payouts through oil's brutal decline that reversed last year?\nQuality energy dividend stock screen\nThere are 107 energy stocks in the Russell 3000 Index , which itself represents about 98% of the U.S. stock market by market capitalization. Among those stocks, 15 have dividend yields higher than 4%. That's a good yield in this market, where 10-year U.S. Treasury notes yield only 1.54%.\nAmong those 15 companies, six have cut their dividends at least once over the past 10 years, while four (ONEOK Inc. $(OKE)$, Exxon Mobil Corp. $(XOM)$, Valero Energy Corp. $(VLO)$ and Chevron Corp. $(CVX)$) not only avoided cutting their dividends, they raised them over the years. A fifth, Phillips 66 (PSX), initiated its dividend in 2012 and raised it from there. Four other companies initiated dividends in 2019 or 2021.\nThe following table includes all 15 stocks, sorted by yield, with the five that didn't cut dividends during or after the long oil price slide marked in bold.\n\n\n\nCompany\nDividend yield\nEstimated 2022 FCF yield\nEstimated 2022 FCF \"headroom\"\nDividend comment\nMarket cap. ($mil)\n\n\nAntero Midstream Corp. AM\n8.26%\n8.21%\n-0.05%\nCut in 2021.\n$5,204\n\n\nAltus Midstream Co. Class A ALTM\n7.05%\nN/A\nN/A\nInitiated dividend in 2021.\n$319\n\n\nArchrock Inc. AROC\n6.65%\nN/A\nN/A\nCut in 2016.\n$1,343\n\n\nFalcon Minerals Corp. Class A FLMN\n6.28%\n12.91%\n6.63%\nCut in 2020.\n$291\n\n\nKinder Morgan Inc. Class P KMI\n6.01%\n9.22%\n3.21%\nCut in 2015.\n$40,695\n\n\nONEOK Inc.OKE\n5.91%\n8.19%\n2.28%\nNo cut.\n$28,197\n\n\nExxon Mobil Corp.XOM\n5.70%\n9.24%\n3.55%\nNo cut.\n$258,544\n\n\nWilliams Cos. Inc. WMB\n5.67%\n8.70%\n3.03%\nCut in 2016.\n$35,149\n\n\nEquitrans Midstream Corp. ETRN\n5.47%\n-2.54%\n-8.01%\nCut in 2020.\n$4,745\n\n\nSolaris Oilfield Infrastructure Inc. Class A SOI\n5.20%\nN/A\nN/A\nInitiated dividend in 2019.\n$257\n\n\nValero Energy Corp.VLO\n5.02%\n9.65%\n4.63%\nNo cut.\n$31,945\n\n\nChevron Corp.CVX\n4.97%\n10.26%\n5.28%\nNo cut.\n$208,456\n\n\nDT Midstream Inc. DTM\n4.89%\n7.59%\n2.69%\nInitiated dividend in 2021\n$4,744\n\n\nRiley Exploration Permian Inc. REPX\n4.80%\nN/A\nN/A\nInitiated dividend in 2021.\n$503\n\n\nPhillips 66PSX\n4.49%\n10.61%\n6.12%\nInitiated dividend in 2012; no cut since.\n$35,858\n\n\nSource: FactSet\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe table also includes estimated free cash flow yields for 2022, based on consensus estimates for free cash flow per share among analysts polled by FactSet, if available. For several of the smaller companies on the list, this information isn't available.\nA company's free cash flow is its remaining cash flow after capital expenditures. It is money that can be used for dividend increases, share buybacks, business expansion or for other corporate purposes. We can estimate a company's free cash flow yield by dividing the 2022 FCF estimate by the current share price. Comparing the FCF yield to the current yield shows plenty of \"headroom\" for the five highlighted stocks, providing some comfort to investors that the dividends will continue to flow, and maybe be increased.\nClick here for a broader screen of dividend stocks incorporating FCF yields. For that screen, Bill McMahon, chief investment officer at Charles Schwab Asset Management, said he preferred to avoid the highest-yielding dividend stocks because the high yields (and low share prices) might indicate trouble ahead. A moderate yield combined with a high FCF yield might point to better growth characteristics for a company, he said.\nBut during the same interview, McMahon also said it would be good to balance a portfolio of stocks with moderate dividend yields well supported by FCF with higher-yielding stocks for income. The five companies highlighted above fit the bill, especially with so much indicated \"headroom\" for dividend increases.\nHe also said that his team at Schwab Asset Management remained \"overweight\" energy stocks and that he expected \"the demand-side of the energy equation [to] continue to rise.\"","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":671,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"CN","currentLanguage":"CN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":4,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ZH_CN"},"commentList":[],"hasMoreComment":false,"orderType":2}