Essential Points to Grasp About EPD Stock

By Susan Ramirez • Tuesday, June 17 10:01 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Enterprise Products, a Oil & Gas Transportation and Processing company whose shares moved 0.8% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Enterprise Products has moved 11.4% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 10.0%
EPD has an average analyst rating of buy and is -12.79% away from its mean target price of $36.46 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.67
Enterprise Products has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 11.9 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.85 and its forward P/E ratio is 11.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.39 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Enterprise Products is part of the Utilities sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 21.16 and an average P/B of 2.36
EPD has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -4.2% and gross profit margins of 0.1%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.47 Billion, 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. It operates in 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 activities. This segment operates 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 approximately 225 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 transports, stores, and markets natural gas. The Petrochemical & Refined Products Services segment operates propylene fractionation facilities, including propylene fractionation units and propane dehydrogenation facilities, and related marketing activities; butane isomerization complex and related deisobutanizer operations; and octane enhancement, isobutane dehydrogenation, and high purity isobutylene production facilities. It also operates refined products pipelines and terminals; and ethylene export terminals; and provides refined products marketing and marine transportation services. Enterprise Products Partners L.P. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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