A Quick Look at What’s Ahead for Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. (APL)

My Foolish take
While Atlas has a very visible outlook for the next year, it doesn’t have the backlog of long-term visibility of a company like Enterprise Products Partners. With more than $7 billion worth of projects in the pipeline, Enterprise still has years of growth ahead of it. Not only that, but it has a much more diversified revenue stream and base of operations. That’s why my money’s on Enterprise to keep the good times (and distribution checks) rolling.

As a “toll booth” investment, midstream companies make money on the commodity that passes through their pipes. That’s why they can continue to profit from record-low prices for natural gas. Enterprise Products Partners, with its superior integrated asset base, has consistently profited by taking on large-scale projects that smaller peers like Atlas simply can’t build.

The article A Quick Look at What’s Ahead for Atlas Pipeline Partners originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Matt DiLallo.

Fool contributor Matt DiLallo owns shares of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. The Motley Fool recommends Enterprise Products Partners L.P.

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