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Our current read (analysis of 2026-08-23): Designation Bounce · Gem Score +9 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality -4 · Value 20 · Sentiment -23 (timing only, not weighted)
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Energy Transfer L.P.
ET NYSEEnergy Transfer L.P. is a publicly traded master limited partnership operating as a diversified midstream energy infrastructure company. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Energy Transfer focuses on the transportation, storage, and processing of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, and refined products across key U.S. producing and demand regions. The partnership manages an extensive network of intrastate and interstate natural gas pipelines, complemented by storage facilities and gathering and processing assets that link production areas to refineries, petrochemical plants, utilities, and end-use markets. Its business is organized into segments including Intrastate Transportation and Storage, Interstate Transportation and Storage, Midstream, NGL and Refined Products Transportation and Services, and Crude Oil Transportation and Services, as well as investments in Sunoco LP and USA Compression Partners. Energy Transfer plays a significant role in the North American energy value chain by providing transportation and logistics services that support producers, refiners, marketers, and large industrial and commercial customers, contributing to the reliable movement of hydrocarbons from wellhead to consuming markets.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 1.29
Total Equity: $49.26B
Shares: 3,449,500,000
Total Debt: $68.33B
Cash: $1.27B
EBITDA: $14.71B
Total Debt: $68.33B
Cash: $1.27B
Revenue: $85.54B
Revenue: $85.54B
Revenue: $85.54B
Total Equity: $49.26B
Tax Rate: 5.8%
Equity: $49.26B
Total Debt: $68.33B
Cash: $1.27B
Current Liabilities: $14.96B
Long-Term Debt: $68.31B
Total Debt: $68.33B
Total Equity: $49.26B
Shares: 3,449,500,000
Shares: 3,449,500,000
CapEx: -$6.30B
Shares: 3,449,500,000
Stock Price: $20.77
Net Income: $4.43B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 2:32pm (12d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $67.4B | $89.9B | $78.6B | $82.7B | $85.5B |
| Cost of Revenue | $50.4B | $72.2B | $60.5B | $62.0B | $63.5B |
| Gross Profit | $17.0B | $17.6B | $18.0B | $20.7B | $22.0B |
| Operating Expenses | $8.2B | $9.9B | $9.8B | $11.6B | $13.0B |
| Operating Income | $8.8B | $7.7B | $8.3B | $9.1B | $9.0B |
| Net Income | $5.5B | $4.8B | $3.9B | $4.8B | $4.4B |
| EBITDA | $12.6B | $11.9B | $12.7B | $14.3B | $14.7B |
| EPS | $1.89 | $1.40 | $1.10 | $1.29 | $1.22 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $2.00 | $1.54 | $1.24 | $1.41 | $1.29 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:29pm (12d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $336.0M | $257.0M | $161.0M | $312.0M | $1.3B |
| Total Current Assets | $10.5B | $12.1B | $12.4B | $14.2B | $18.2B |
| Total Assets | $106.0B | $105.6B | $113.7B | $125.4B | $141.3B |
| Current Liabilities | $10.8B | $10.4B | $11.3B | $12.7B | $15.0B |
| Long-Term Debt | $49.0B | $48.3B | $51.4B | $59.8B | $68.3B |
| Total Liabilities | $66.6B | $65.0B | $69.8B | $78.9B | $92.0B |
| Total Equity | $39.3B | $40.7B | $43.9B | $46.4B | $49.3B |
| Retained Earnings | — | — | — | — | — |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 2:32pm (12d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $11.2B | $9.1B | $9.6B | $11.5B | $10.1B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$2.8B | -$3.4B | -$3.1B | -$4.2B | -$6.3B |
| Free Cash Flow | $8.3B | $5.7B | $6.4B | $7.3B | $3.8B |
| Acquisitions (net) | -$256.0M | -$1.1B | -$111.0M | -$250.0M | — |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | -$6.1B | -$843.0M | $714.0M | $4.7B | $32.9B |
| Dividends Paid | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stock Buybacks | -$31.0M | $0 | $0 | — | — |
| Net Change in Cash | -$31.0M | -$79.0M | -$96.0M | $151.0M | $960.0M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 2:32pm (12d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +33.3% | -12.6% | +5.2% | +3.5% |
| Gross Profit Growth | +3.7% | +2.3% | +14.7% | +6.5% |
| Operating Income Growth | -12.0% | +7.2% | +10.2% | -1.2% |
| Net Income Growth | -13.1% | -17.3% | +22.3% | -7.9% |
| EBITDA Growth | -5.6% | +6.5% | +12.8% | +2.8% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:29pm (12d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-07 | $0.34 | — | — | — |
| 2026-05-08 | $0.34 | — | — | — |
| 2026-02-06 | $0.34 | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-07 | $0.33 | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-08 | $0.33 | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-09 | $0.33 | — | — | — |
| 2025-02-07 | $0.33 | — | — | — |
| 2024-11-08 | $0.32 | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-09 | $0.32 | — | — | — |
| 2024-05-10 | $0.32 | — | — | — |
| 2024-02-06 | $0.32 | — | — | — |
| 2023-10-27 | $0.31 | — | — | — |
| 2023-08-11 | $0.31 | — | — | — |
| 2023-05-05 | $0.31 | — | — | — |
| 2023-02-06 | $0.31 | — | — | — |
| 2022-11-03 | $0.27 | — | — | — |
| 2022-08-05 | $0.23 | — | — | — |
| 2022-05-06 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2022-02-07 | $0.18 | — | — | — |
| 2021-11-04 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Narrative Economics
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AI Lens 4th lens · how AI reaches this business · 5-yr
2026-08-11Data-center electricity load is pulling incremental firm gas demand into ET's Texas/Gulf footprint, letting it sign long-dated fee-based supply and transport contracts on already-built or brownfield capacity — demand growth on top of sunk rights-of-way is the highest-margin growth ET can get.
AI gives ET almost no internal cost lever that matters: with ~$85B of largely pass-through revenue and low SG&A intensity, automation of monitoring, scheduling and maintenance moves EBITDA only marginally, while a capex race to serve speculative compute load risks assets contracted to counterparties whose power strategy can shift to nuclear, on-site renewables or grid supply.
Whether announced data-center gas deals convert from letters of intent into firm, take-or-pay, decade-length contracts with FIDs. Watch contracted volume disclosures, the growth-capex-to-firm-commitment ratio, and DCF coverage as capex ramps.
Rights-of-way, FERC/state permits, storage caverns, Permian-to-Gulf and intrastate Texas interconnects, and physical proximity to both supply basins and new generation sites — none of which cheaper software or a well-funded entrant can conjure.
AI Lens thesis
AI reaches ET almost entirely through the demand side of the physical energy chain rather than through its cost structure or competitive position: the underlying need (moving and storing hydrocarbons) is unaffected by cheap cognition, the monetized unit (capacity, volume, spread) is physical and contracted, and no agent can disintermediate a pipe. What changes is scarcity — power-hungry compute raises the value of gas takeaway, storage flexibility and interconnects into new generation, exactly the assets ET already owns and that permitting makes non-reproducible. The offset is that ET captures little AI operating leverage (savings land in a small SG&A base and are partly shared with shippers), and it can misallocate capital chasing a load forecast that hyperscalers may satisfy elsewhere. Net: modestly favorable, with the upside contingent on contract firmness rather than on any AI capability ET builds.
What the market may be underestimating
Upside Storage and intrastate flexibility are undervalued: 24/7 compute load makes swing and firming service — not just baseload throughput — a priced product, which favors ET's cavern storage and Texas intrastate optionality more than headline pipeline mileage suggests.
Downside Serving compute load can quietly convert ET from contracted toll-taker toward power-linked, shorter-tenor or merchant-flavored exposure, and the capex to win it lands just as free cash flow already halved to $3.85B in 2025 — leverage and coverage, not AI, become the binding constraint.
Outcome range spread 37
Claude Reading
Looking at the raw tape first: TTM revenue is roughly $92.3B (summing the last four quarters), up from $82.7B in 2024 — call it ~11.6% growth, materially better than the 4.3% five-year CAGR suggests. But net income is trending the wrong way: $4.36B TTM vs $4.81B in 2024, a ~9% decline, and margins have compressed from 6.3% in Q2'24 to 3.7% in Q4'25 before a Q1'26 rebound to 4.5%. So revenue is accelerating while profitability is decaying — classic midstream throughput-versus-spread story, or capex-cycle drag from the $6.3B outlay against $10.15B OCF, leaving $3.85B FCF (down sharply, per the -22.6% FCF CAGR). Balance sheet: $68.3B debt against $49.3B equity and $1.27B cash, D/E of 1.39, ROIC of 7.3% — thin cushion but not distressed for a fee-based midstream. EV/EBITDA of 9.4x is roughly in line with WMB/KMI, not a distressed multiple.
On the prior models: the Synthesis "fair value $33.64 vs $20.82" (+61%) is aggressive and I don't buy the magnitude. That gap implies the market is misreading a stable dividend-payer by 60%, which for a widely-owned $71B MLP with sell-side coverage everywhere is implausible. More likely the DCF is over-weighting a normalized FCF that hasn't existed since 2021 and under-weighting the K-1 tax friction, MLP structural discount, and legitimate refinancing overhang on $68B of debt in a higher-for-longer rate regime. The Market Forces note ("severe financial stress," "distribution cut risk real") contradicts the Pre-Flight thesis ("stable 6.5% yielder") — and I side closer to Pre-Flight: interest coverage on $9B operating income against, call it, ~$3B interest expense is ~3x, tight but not a crisis. The Narrative layer's "fragile, moderate intensity" read is the most honest of the bunch — this isn't a story stock, it's a cash-flow arithmetic problem.
The contrarian pushback that matters: the 6.48% yield looks safe on 2024 numbers but the payout math is tightening. Distributions are roughly $4.6B annually against $3.85B FCF — already covered by less than 1x on a pure FCF basis, funded partly by debt/rotation. If capex stays elevated into 2026 (Warren has telegraphed this) and margins don't recover past 5%, the coverage gap widens. The insider "buying" flag is misleading — those are A-Awards (grants) and one large 1.1M share award, not open-market purchases. That's compensation, not conviction. Strip that out and there's no meaningful insider signal. The "accelerating quarterly revenue" is also partly commodity price mix, not volume-driven fee growth, which is what actually matters for an MLP.
Where I land: ET is not a 60% undervaluation. It's a reasonably-priced income vehicle with real but manageable balance-sheet risk, trading at ~9.4x EV/EBITDA where peers trade at 10-12x — so maybe 15-20% discount to fair, not 60%. Fair value in the $24-27 range feels defensible; anything above assumes the capex cycle produces the EBITDA management promises, which is the actual crux. The synthesis verdict of "fair_value" I partially agree with, but the $33.64 signal-adjusted number is unsupportable given deteriorating FCF and margin compression. For an income investor already comfortable with K-1s and MLP structure, the 6.5% yield with modest capital appreciation potential is fine. For anyone underwriting the +60% upside, you're betting on a capex cycle payoff that hasn't shown up in margins yet and refinancing that doesn't blow up — two independent risks. I'll dissent from the bullish tilt implied by the +61% gap and call this closer to fairly valued with mild upside optionality if 2026 margins recover to the 5.5-6% range.
GPT Reading
What stands out is that the business is sturdier than the more alarmist overlays imply, but the equity is not obviously screaming cheap once you respect the capital structure. Energy Transfer grew revenue from $78.6B in 2023 to $82.7B in 2024 and $85.5B in 2025, yet operating income was basically flat at $9.1B in 2024 and $9.0B in 2025. That tells you the core story: scale is expanding, but incremental revenue is not dropping through cleanly because this is a low-margin, capital-heavy toll-road with meaningful commodity-linked noise. Quarterly results reinforce that. The latest quarter posted $27.8B of revenue, up sharply from $21.0B a year earlier, but net income fell from $1.32B to $1.25B and margin compressed from 6.3% to 4.5%. If you just look at top line, you can talk yourself into acceleration; if you look at earnings quality, you see a mature midstream operator where volume growth and asset additions are being partially offset by mix and cost pressure.
The balance sheet and cash flow are where I part company with the more bullish composite valuation. Total debt of $68.3B against just $1.27B of cash is simply too large to hand-wave away, even for a midstream MLP. Debt-to-equity at 1.39x is manageable for the sector, but it leaves little room for sloppy execution in a higher-for-longer rate world. Operating cash flow of $10.15B is healthy, yet capex of $6.30B drives free cash flow down to $3.85B. Against a $70.9B market cap, that is only about a 5.4% FCF yield, which is not a giveaway for a levered infrastructure vehicle with a 6.5% distribution yield. In other words, the market is not irrationally treating ET like a distressed asset; it is discounting a business whose cash generation is solid before growth capex, but much less abundant after funding the asset base and expansion agenda. EV/EBITDA of 9.4x also does not look distressed. For this kind of company, that multiple says “acceptable income vehicle,” not “massive mispricing.”
I still come out modestly constructive because the stock does not need heroic assumptions to work. Net income of $4.43B in 2025 on a $70.9B market cap is a 16.2x P/E, which is not expensive for a business with hard assets, a 6%+ yield, and revenue growth still in the low single digits. Gross margin improved to 25.8% in 2025 from 23.0% in 2023 and 19.6% in 2022, suggesting the franchise mix is getting better even if net margin remains around 5%. ROIC of 7.3% is not great, but it is respectable enough if upcoming projects convert capex into EBITDA rather than just into more balance-sheet bulk. I do not buy the “turnaround under severe financial stress” framing. The numbers look like a mature operator leaning into growth projects, not a near-term distribution-cut candidate. But I also do not buy a clean path to the low-$30s off the data shown here; that would require either materially higher post-capex free cash flow or a market willingness to pay a premium multiple on a highly levered MLP, and neither is evident.
The strongest case against my caution is straightforward: this may be one of those midstream names where accounting earnings understate distributable economics, and the market may still be too anchored on leverage stigma from an older ET playbook. Operating cash flow above $10B versus net income of $4.4B shows substantial non-cash charges, and if capex moderates after the current buildout, free cash flow could inflect sharply higher without needing much revenue growth. On that view, today’s 6.5% yield is well covered, the latest revenue jump to $27.8B hints at stronger system utilization, and the flat-to-down earnings are temporary noise rather than deterioration. A bull would also say 1.45x book and 0.84x sales are not demanding for irreplaceable infrastructure, and that if the market ever values ET more like a steadier peer, the rerating could be meaningful. I weigh that case lower because the evidence in front of us still shows too much capex dependence and too little operating-income growth to justify paying up for latent upside that has not yet landed in per-unit economics.
What would change my mind is not another quarter of big revenue. I would want to see either free cash flow move decisively above $5B while debt stays flat to down, or annual operating income break out above $9.5B with net income back above $5B, proving the capex cycle is earning its keep. Conversely, if quarterly net margins keep slipping toward 4% despite rising revenue, or if debt pushes beyond $70B without a commensurate EBITDA uplift, I would turn more bearish quickly because that would confirm ET is buying growth that equity holders do not really capture. At around $20.77, I see a decent income stock with some upside, but not the kind of deep undervaluation the synthetic models are hinting at.
Grok Reading
Energy Transfer’s numbers describe a high-volume midstream machine that is still growing the top line while the bottom line and free cash flow are being deliberately squeezed by reinvestment. Annual revenue climbed from $82.67B in 2024 to $85.54B in 2025, and the most recent quarter printed $27.77B—well above the $19–21B run-rate that dominated 2024 and early 2025—confirming the “accelerating” revenue signal. Yet net income fell from $4.81B to $4.43B and free cash flow sits at only $3.85B after $6.30B of capex, producing a –22.6% FCF CAGR even as operating cash flow remains a solid $10.15B. Net margin compressed to 5.2% and ROE is a pedestrian 9%. At $20.77 the partnership screens cheap on trailing multiples—0.84× sales, 9.4× EV/EBITDA, 16× earnings—and the 6.5% distribution yield is the clear anchor for the equity. The story the raw data tell is therefore straightforward: management is spending heavily to expand the asset base while the market is still willing to pay only a modest multiple for the existing cash-flow stream, leaving the stock below several no-growth floors once the yield is capitalized.
The leverage is not cosmetic. Total debt of $68.33B against $1.27B of cash and $49.26B of equity produces a 1.39 debt-to-equity ratio and an enterprise value roughly double the equity market cap. That capital structure is typical of midstream MLPs, but it leaves little margin if rates stay elevated or if project returns slip. Quarterly net margins have already oscillated between 3.7% and 6.3%; any sustained compression would pressure coverage of the distribution that currently defines the investment case. Insider activity is almost entirely routine awards and small gifts rather than open-market accumulation, so it does not offset the balance-sheet risk. Relative to the sector the stock is lagging, consistent with investors demanding a discount for refinancing and energy-transition overhangs.
The strongest contrary case is that the valuation gap is illusory once leverage and FCF trajectory are properly weighted. A composite model fair value near $30–34 implies 50–60% upside, yet that same model flags “dangerously low” interest coverage and mixed methodological signals; if the market is correctly discounting a multi-year period of elevated capex and possible distribution vulnerability, then 9–10× EV/EBITDA and a mid-teens P/E are fair rather than cheap. The –7.9% recent earnings decline and the structural FCF compression argue that growth is not free—it is being paid for with balance-sheet capacity that could otherwise support higher distributions or deleveraging. In that reading the 6.5% yield is compensation for genuine stranded-asset and refinancing risk, not a free lunch, and the “fallen-angel” narrative correctly prices a business whose secular volume outlook is less certain than bulls claim.
I would flip to a clear overvalued stance if the next two quarters show distribution coverage falling below 1.2× or if FCF remains below $3B while net debt stays above $65B; conversely, two consecutive quarters of FCF above $5B with stable or rising coverage and any meaningful debt pay-down would justify treating the current price as a deep discount and raise conviction materially.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Energy Transfer is a mature, asset-heavy MLP throwing off real cash: revenue grew from $67.4B in 2021 to $85.5B in 2025, gross margin has re-expanded to 25.8%, and operating margin sits around 10-11%. Operating cash conversion is strong (OCF/NI 2.21x, accruals -4.8% of assets), and FCF has averaged roughly $6B/yr, indicating the reported earnings are backed by cash. Insider behavior is a genuine positive - Warren's $22M open-market buy plus other P-code purchases totaling ~$68M with zero sales is a rare vote of confidence from those closest to the assets. Two structural issues weigh heavily. First, diluted units have grown from 2.74B to 3.45B - a 5.9% CAGR - meaning per-unit economics lag the underlying business by a wide margin; buybacks recover only 4.7% of SBC-equivalent issuance, so this is real dilution, not comp noise (some tied to M&A). Second, net debt of ~$67B against $1.27B cash and an Altman Z of 1.31 puts the balance sheet in the model's distress zone; while Z-scores misread leveraged midstream MLPs, the absolute debt load is a hard constraint that leaves no cushion for a downcycle. Net-net: durable toll-road-like cash flows and improving margins, but per-unit value creation is throttled by dilution and the leverage leaves little margin for error.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- How much of the unit growth is M&A consideration (Crestwood, WTG, Sunoco-related) vs pure dilution to public holders
- Distribution coverage ratio and leverage covenants (Debt/EBITDA target) from the 10-K
- Maturity ladder of the $67B debt stack and weighted-average cost
- Customer/counterparty concentration and % of revenue that is fee-based vs commodity-exposed
- Any material litigation or regulatory overhangs (Dakota Access, PA grand jury matters)
The e2e composite pegs fair value at $29.88 and signal-adjusted at $33.64, implying 43-62% upside from $20.82. But the methods disagree meaningfully: DCF says $34.13, EPV floor $30.47, and anchored P/E only $20.78 - right at spot. That anchored-PE tie to price is the tell: on a trailing earnings basis the market is paying a fair multiple, and the upside comes almost entirely from DCF/EPV assumptions about durable free cash flow. Given 5.9% annual unit issuance (a real per-holder drag) and $67B net debt, I haircut the composite down toward the EPV floor of ~$30 as the honest deserved value per unit. That still leaves roughly 40% upside plus a 7%+ distribution while you wait, which is a genuine gap - not a screaming steal, but more than fair value. The bear case (secular midstream decline, refinancing risk) is partially priced in via the sentiment discount; the bull case (LNG/NGL export volumes, hard-asset scarcity) is not. Insider buying of $22M is a modest positive signal on deserved value. Net: modestly cheap, with the caveat that the dilution tax quietly erodes the per-unit math each year, so the margin of safety is thinner than the headline upside suggests.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- distribution coverage ratio and any guidance on unit issuance pace
- 2025-2026 debt maturity wall and refi terms
- LNG/NGL export volume commitments and take-or-pay contract duration
- growth capex vs maintenance capex split to validate DCF FCF assumptions
The macro tape is mildly risk-on (VIX 15.5, S&P near highs), but with a 0.56 beta ET barely feels that lift - broad euphoria flows to high-beta AI and cyclicals, not to a legacy midstream MLP. What actually matters here is the narrative: fallen-angel, moderate intensity, fragile durability, low cult. The story is reactive ('yield opportunity vs yield trap') rather than propulsive, so there is no momentum bid and no rotation flow into the name. News flow is quietly supportive - a dividend-growth piece and a high-yield-benefits-from-rates piece - but neither is the kind of narrative that re-rates a stock. Meanwhile 10y at 4.65% is a real crosswind for a levered, distribution-paying pipeline: yield names compete directly with Treasuries, and D/E creeping 1.19 to 1.39 makes the refinancing overhang the bears already cite more salient. Net: modest news tailwind and defensive-yield appeal roughly offset by rate pressure, energy-transition overhang, and the absence of any propulsive story. Pressure is close to neutral with a slight negative lean.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- September FOMC decision and the 10y path - a hawkish surprise would intensify the yield-competition headwind
- Any distribution coverage or leverage commentary at next print - would either kill or feed the 'yield trap' narrative
- Midstream sector flows and MLP ETF (AMLP) relative strength as a tell on capital-flight reversal
- Oil/NGL price direction and LNG export headlines that could give the bull narrative propulsion
AI reaches ET almost entirely through the demand side of the physical energy chain rather than through its cost structure or competitive position: the underlying need (moving and storing hydrocarbons) is unaffected by cheap cognition, the monetized unit (capacity, volume, spread) is physical and contracted, and no agent can disintermediate a pipe. What changes is scarcity — power-hungry compute raises the value of gas takeaway, storage flexibility and interconnects into new generation, exactly the assets ET already owns and that permitting makes non-reproducible. The offset is that ET captures little AI operating leverage (savings land in a small SG&A base and are partly shared with shippers), and it can misallocate capital chasing a load forecast that hyperscalers may satisfy elsewhere. Net: modestly favorable, with the upside contingent on contract firmness rather than on any AI capability ET builds.
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Verify before trusting this (8)
- Intrastate Texas capacity utilization
- Storage spread and firming rates
- Interconnect agreements with new generation
- Share of fee-based vs commodity margin
- Weighted average contract tenor
- Take-or-pay coverage on new capex
- US gas demand for power generation
- LNG feedgas volumes off ET systems
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