Enterprise (EPD) Products Partners Investors Should Focus on This

By Emilio Sanchez • Friday, December 30 12:02 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Enterprise Products Partners over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Oil & Gas Transportation and Processing stock at a price of $23.95? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Enterprise Products Partners has moved 10.3% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -19.2%
EPD has an average analyst rating of buy and is -23.9% away from its mean target price of $31.48 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (Eps) is $2.31
Enterprise Products Partners has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 10.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (Eps) is $2.56 and its forward P/E ratio is 9.4
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.0 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Enterprise Products Partners is part of the Energy sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 9.11 and an average P/B of 1.45
EPD has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 18.2% and gross profit margins of 0.1%
The company has a free cash flow of $3,359,875,072.00, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. provides midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, petrochemicals, and refined products. The company operates through four segments: NGL Pipelines & Services, Crude Oil Pipelines & Services, Natural Gas Pipelines & Services, and Petrochemical & Refined Products Services. The NGL Pipelines & Services segment offers natural gas processing and related NGL marketing services. It operates 19 natural gas processing facilities located in Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming; NGL pipelines; NGL fractionation facilities; NGL and related product storage facilities; and NGL marine terminals. The Crude Oil Pipelines & Services segment operates crude oil pipelines; and crude oil storage and marine terminals, which include a fleet of 255 tractor-trailer tank trucks that are used to transport crude oil. It also engages in crude oil marketing activities. The Natural Gas Pipelines & Services segment operates natural gas pipeline systems to gather, treat, and transport natural gas. It leases underground salt dome natural gas storage facilities in Napoleonville, Louisiana; owns an underground salt dome storage cavern in Wharton County, Texas; and markets natural gas. The Petrochemical & Refined Products Services segment operates propylene fractionation and related marketing activities; butane isomerization complex and related deisobutanizer operations; and octane enhancement and high purity isobutylene production facilities. It also operates refined products pipelines and terminals; and ethylene export terminals, as well as provides refined products marketing and marine transportation services. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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