Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (BWP): 1 Great Dividend You Can Buy Right Now

Now compare this with an extremely popular and much larger midstream company in Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE:EEP). The payouts between the two companies are actually quite similar, with Enbridge yielding 6.7% and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (NYSE:BWP) yielding 6.6%. However, profit margins are considerably higher for Boardwalk, and its annual dividend growth history is certainly more appealing. Enbridge shareholders have seen their payout grow by an average of 2.4% per year since 2006 while Boardwalk, even excluding its very first payout, which would skew the results, grew its yield by an average of 5.8% per year. Furthermore, trailing-12-month operating cash flow as a percentage debt is higher for Boardwalk as compared with Enbridge, signaling the stability of its debt relative to its cash-generating capabilities. I have absolutely nothing against Enbridge Energy Partners, but Boardwalk is statistically the better-looking midstream MLP!

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This looks like a pretty open-and-shut case of a company that’s perfectly positioned to take advantage of the upcoming energy boom. Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (NYSE:BWP) has its infrastructure set up in key shale regions to avoid many of the gluts that previously weighed down the sector, it’s forged a valuable Northeast-to-Gulf Coast partnership with Williams Companies, Inc. (NYSE:WMB), and it’s just relatively inexpensive compared with some of its peers. It’s especially attractive if you consider that reinvesting the dividend proceeds could result in a doubling of your money in less than 11 years if the stock price stays at the same level it’s at now or heads higher. I like those odds!

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