Overview
- UPS offers a roughly 6.5% dividend yield after a stock slide tied to post-pandemic volume normalization and an ongoing business overhaul.
- The company’s payout ratio sits above 100%, raising questions about dividend sustainability and the possibility of a board-led reset.
- Enterprise Products Partners pays a forward dividend of $2.18 per share for a yield near 6.8% and has increased its distribution for 28 consecutive years.
- Enterprise’s revenue is supported by long-term, fee-based contracts with minimum volume commitments that reduce exposure to commodity-price swings.
- The partnership runs an integrated network exceeding 50,000 miles of pipelines and related assets positioned for rising natural gas demand from AI data centers and LNG exports.