Kinder Morgan Partners (KMP) announced a secondary offering of 6.9 million shares last night at $78.32, raising $540 million. KMP is predictably weaker this morning as is usually the case when an MLP sells stock unexpectedly. For Kinder Morgan Inc., (KMI), the math is somewhat different. KMI owns the General Partner (GP) of KMP, and […]
A very nice review, which you can find here.
Unlisted, registered REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) deserve a worse reputation than they apparently have. Yield-seeking investors continue to plow cash into them, and the brokers that market them clearly won’t let a bad idea get in the way of a commission. This is a curious animal; registered, meaning the security has to meet all […]
Last week an investor in Kinder Morgan Partners (KMP) filed a lawsuit against its general partner, Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), alleging that KMI (which runs KMP) had directed excessive cash distributions to itself to the detriment of investors in KMP. The suit (filed by Jon Slotoroff) highlights a seldom noted feature of MLPs, which is […]
The meeting concluded with a financial review and Q&A. Overall the impression is one of numerous projects to grow and add to their energy infrastructure assets. Many seemingly attractive opportunities are available. The shadow of Kevin Kaiser, the HedgeEye analyst who criticized their accounting last year, was present even though Kaiser himself did not ask […]
So far we’re half way through Kinder Morgan’s analyst day. It opened with a summary by Rich Kinder who repeated his oft-stated thoughts that the stock price of all four Kinder entities is too low. We agree with him at least in the case of Kinder Morgan Inc (KMI) which we own. We much prefer […]
An obscure dispute between DirecTV and The Weather Channel (TWC) highlights the shifting landscape of the economics behind what you see on TV. DirecTV dropped TWC from its line-up because they wanted to reduce the current 13 cents per subscriber per month that they pay to carry the service; TWC wanted an increase to 14 […]
This morning I perused the front page of the Financial Times the old-fashioned way (i.e. by physically holding the newspaper in my hands rather than visiting the website) over breakfast in a NY hotel following a client dinner last night. I was struck by the juxtaposition of two articles. One was: ” ‘Fragile Five’ Fall […]
Nice piece with Chuck Jaffe of MoneyLife. Here’s the link – go to the December 24th show, starts at the 17 minute mark. http://www.moneylifeshow.com/archives.asp
I was struck today by an article in the New York Times (“On Jammed Jets, Sardines Turn on One Another”). As airlines pack more people onto planes, the flying experience (as least in Economy Class) becomes ever worse. This was hardly news to anyone who has flown domestically in the U.S. in recent years. Airlines […]
