Star Gas Partners, L.P. (NYSE:SGU)

Small and cheap with a good dividend

SGU is fighting a losing battle against EPA edicts and existing players that are more established in the market.
We won't see increased gas capacity for at least 5 years if then. One line leak and "Green Freaks" will camp out on a line somewhere and threaten to blow it up.

Good div, well-covered, current>1

Love this company & stock. SGU has been steadily rebounding since early 2009 with great dividends! Expecting momentum to catch on in fall of '11, could push close to $11/share.

Following the insiders

Insiders have been poring money Into this company for quite some time. 1.7 million shares have been purchased over the past year (no sales) Including the purchase by one director of 197,000 shares In the past 3 weeks. With an annual dividend of 31 cents and a yield over 4%,this company looks to be a solid addition to any portffolio. Star Gas Partners, L.P. operates as a home heating oil distributor and services provider in the United States. It provides its services to residential and commercial customers to heat their homes and buildings. As of September 30, 2009, the company sold home heating oil to approximately 374,000 full service residential and commercial home heating oil customers and propane to approximately 7,000 propane customers. It also sells home heating oil, gasoline and diesel fuel to approximately 34,000 customers. In addition, Star Gas Partners installs, maintains, and repairs heating and air conditioning equipment, as well as provides ancillary home services, including home security and plumbing to approximately 11,000 customers. Kestrel Heat, LLC operates as the general partner of the company. Star Gas Partners was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

DIV PLay

I like it's prospects.

Low debt. High dividend. Less than 10k shares short. Going up steadily imho.

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ULTIMATE list of dividend picks.
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This littlle guy just keeps chugging along, bringing in nice earnings, bringing in nice dividend yields, and bringing in people who believe it will keep on chugging.

Screener:
ROE > 10%
LT Debt - Equity < 50%
Dividend > 5%
Price-to-Book < 3
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EBITDA Growing?:
Months of EBITDA to pay:
LT Debt - Cash - 4
Dividend - 1

Look for the long in the making rise from the ashes of this company like the proverbial Phoenix as this is the tale of an operation built from the ground up and run as the standard of excellence by it's founder who then sold his Company for big bucks and retired not realizing that he had sold to a group of rotters, who ran the partnership like rum pot's and finally right off a cliff as stewbums for managers tend to do with good businesses. After selling high his ownership in this Partnership he found himself in a position to buy it back at all time lows which he did. He has since set about returning the Partnership to it's former glory and is clearly well on the way to having completed the successful turn around and operational excellance driven focus that will make this one of the better investments you could make at the current prices which won't be around much longer and are unlikely to be seen again anytime soon. The fundamentals are all there and the Cinderella story that you get free with the package makes most people to poor not to be able to afford to pass up a cash generating ATM machine investment like this one is.

The future for our hemisphere's energy.

Winter is coming.

Margins improving (+4%) and falling to stable oil will help them greatly profit. Their recent acquisitions leave them in a prime spot to benefit from higher heating oil prices. Should be a $5-6 stock, GREAT PLAY FOR THE WINTER-SPRING!

Reversal of Fortunes?

No reason for it to be down

Only way is up