3. Company Thesis
EPD intrinsic value value - $31.57
Strong Buy @ 24.16: 23.47% Margin of Safety
Buy @ 27.16: 13.97% Margin of Safety
Strategically positioned to take advantage of international increase
demand in
4. Executive Summary
Market Cap - $56.0B
Enterprise Val - $76.8B
DPS
$1.53
Coverage Ratio 1.3x
Capital Projects $8.7B
Debt to Equity 1.02
Price 3/31/17 $24.55
Target Price: $31.57
● EPD is a midstream service company that stores transports and
refines crude oil and natural gas.
● Strategically positioned the take full advantage of the increase in
demand for NGL’s domestically and internationally (one of first to
export GL’s)
● CEO has been with the company for more 17 years.
Key Figures
EPD Overview
Industry Overview
● Increasing demand for NGL’s in the international markets.
● 40 year ban lifted on exporting domestically produced crude
12. Types of Contracts
1. Keep Whole and Margin-Band Contracts
take ownership of the mixed NGL extracted, EPD makes the margin in between the cost of the oil
and the price it is sold for under contract.
1. Percent-of-Liquids
EPD takes ownership of the NGL’s sells them and the difference between cost and price is their
revenue.
1. Percent-of-Proceeds
Take a percent of the proceeds the producer receives.
13. Contract Makeup
● Long term contracts with
highly rated E&P companies
● Top 200 account for 95.7% of
EPD’s 2015 Revenue
● Only 20 customers or 4.3% of
revenues come from sub-
investment grade customers
● Therefore low risk profile to
weak oil prices / high costs.
15. ● LPG export expansion
● Aegis Ethane pipeline
● Ethane Export Terminal
● Waha gas processing
plant
● PDH terminal
● Infrastructure for
crude/refined products
● NGL & Propylene
pipeline expansions
● Eagle Ford JV dock
16. SWOT
Strength
● Asset infrastructure and Integrated Network
● Long-term contracts generally inflation protected.
● In lead position to export NGL’s and crude
Weakness
● Macroeconomic Risks (Supply & Demand)
● Upstream bankruptcies nullify contracts.
● Long term debt
Opportunities
● Obtain Approval to build a pipeline connecting
the northeast region
● Increase in global demand for natural gas
Threats
● Correlation between oil prices
● New gas transmission safety rule could add
costly expenses to existing infrastructure
29. Recommendation and Q&A
We believe the stock is a BUY at its current market price of $ 24.64 with a 21.95% upside to $31.57.
Editor's Notes
MOVE KEY FIGURES TO THE LEFT.
Shell and BP account for 13.4% percent of revenue (7.4% and 6% respectively)
What once was a byproduct of crude oil, NGL, Propane ethane butane and natural gas, is now a major commodity. The U.S was a major storage of this by product. As a result of the increased demand the is need for infrastructure to export the product globally.
Midstream :
Pipelines , Crude Oil Storage ---> Refining ---> Refining Products Storage ----> Refined Products Pipelines
Nautral Gas Pipelines ----> Refining -----> Nautral Gas Storage -----> Natural Gas Pipelines---- > Power Generation , Industrial Fuel , Residential Fuel
Toll Road with
Us market is saturated with energy production with natural gas consisting 21% of electricity generation
We see this use to stay very close to this level , or decrease which would lead us to believe that natural gas produced in the Us has the ability to be exported out to the US.
38% of nautrual gas in the US is used as feedstock by industries .
21% of electricity generation is produced froI m Natural Gas
21% of electricity generation is produced from Natural Gas
5.9 Billon
Which owns and operates 73 storage facilities in 22 countries.
EFS Midstream which provides condensate gathering and processing services.
Divestitures:
Sold offshore business for $1.53 Billion in cash (was the primary makeup of the Offshore Pipeline & Services Business Segment)
EPD will maintain 55% ownership the others 15% each. The project will include 60 miles of new pipeline increasing capacity by 100%. The system will connect The Cotton Valley and Haynesville plays (Northwest louisiana).
The project is supported by long term firm contracts.
export Terminal has been expanded increasing loading capacity by 77% to 16 million barrels a month.
Capital Projects
Houston Ship Channel LPG
Aegis Ethane pipeline connects Mont Belvieu, TX and the Mississippi River in Louisiana via a 162 mile pipeline
Joint venture with Occidental to develop a million cubic feet per day cryogenic natural gas processing facility.
Joint Venture with Anadarko, DCP, and mark west for the formation of the Panola Pipeline.
This is also assuming that dividends will stay at a constant level of $1.61 annually.
If the price of oil goes up , our cost of equity will up and our growth will slow , do to excess supply , created from our upstream contracts who are now unwilling to refine and sell the oil downstream.
In our base case of oil , we assume we will grow at 5.2 % dividend which is slightly above gdp growth .
HAVE A CLEAR PICTURE OF THE FOOTBALL ANALYSIS
Given oil price moves in the next 5-6 months , we have made 3 cases for where we think oil prices can move.
No one know where exactly oil will move in the long term but we have to put this assumption into our model.