If you take out the $2.9 billion raised by $KMI's IPO, MLPs have issued $1.3 billion in equity through IPOs this year, compared with $1.6 billion last year. If another $1.0 billion is still to hit the market this fall, where will the buyers come from? I guess they'd have to come from new money or from people selling MLPs they own right now. Combining all this IPO equity overhang with the slowing economy and broader market declines, and it might be a weak fall for MLP investors. This may provide opportunities across the sector to pick up some of the better names on the cheap in anticipation of some uplift after this backlog gets cleaned out.
See below for an update of the IPO charts I posted in June. Since that post, we've had two MLPs price, with mixed results. $OILT is up more than 10% since IPO, $AMID is down more than 15%. Overall, the best performing IPO in 2011 is $UAN, with total returns of 44% since its April IPO, worst performing IPO is Compressco Partners ($GSJK), which is down almost 25% since its IPO in June. Source for all the IPO data is SEC filings and Bloomberg.
Hinds Howard
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