What Are the Fundamentals of Kinder Morgan (KMI)?

By Susan Ramirez • Sunday, December 31 11:31 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Kinder Morgan over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Oil & Gas Transportation and Processing stock at a price of $17.64? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Kinder Morgan has moved -2.1% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 24.7%
KMI has an average analyst rating of hold and is -11.27% away from its mean target price of $19.88 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.09
Kinder Morgan has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 16.2 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.21 and its forward P/E ratio is 14.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.3 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Kinder Morgan is part of the Utilities sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 17.53 and an average P/B of 1.71
KMI has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -6.7% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $2.19 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Kinder Morgan, Inc. operates as an energy infrastructure company in North America. The company operates through four segments: Natural Gas Pipelines, Products Pipelines, Terminals, and CO2. The Natural Gas Pipelines segment owns and operates interstate and intrastate natural gas pipeline, and underground storage systems; natural gas gathering systems and natural gas processing and treating facilities; natural gas liquids fractionation facilities and transportation systems; and liquefied natural gas gasification, liquefaction, and storage facilities. The Products Pipelines segment owns and operates refined petroleum products, and crude oil and condensate pipelines; and associated product terminals and petroleum pipeline transmix facilities. The Terminals segment owns and/or operates liquids and bulk terminals that stores and handles various commodities, including gasoline, diesel fuel, renewable fuel stock, chemicals, ethanol, metals, and petroleum coke; and owns tankers. The CO2 segment produces, transports, and markets CO2 to recovery and production crude oil from mature oil fields; owns interests in/or operates oil fields and gasoline processing plants; and operates a crude oil pipeline system in West Texas, as well as owns and operates RNG and LNG facilities. It owns and operates approximately 83,000 miles of pipelines and 140 terminals. The company was formerly known as Kinder Morgan Holdco LLC and changed its name to Kinder Morgan, Inc. in February 2011. Kinder Morgan, Inc. was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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