Every retail investor wants to ensure a solid portfolio return. The only question is, how? The stock market produces a vast mine of data, that by its nature forms a barrier to access.
We’ve pulled up two of Cohen’s recent moves, and used the TipRanks database to take a closer look at them. These are strong dividend payers, with annual yields of at least 5%. We can turn to the Wall Street analysts to find out what else might have brought these stocks to Cohen's attention.
Plains GP Holdings
$Plains GP Holdings (PAGP.US)$ (PAGP)
We’ll start with Plains GP Holdings, a mid-cap player in the oil and gas midstream business. Plains GP controls a network of assets, including some 19,000 miles of pipelines, 8,000 crude oil rail tankers, and 2,500 tractor-trailers, as well as 20 river transport tugs and 50 barges. The network stretches along the Rocky Mountain region from northern Alberta into Colorado, down to Texas and the Gulf, and up to the Mississippi. The company also has terminal and refining assets in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay areas.
LyondellBasell
$LyondellBasell Industries (LYB.US)$ (LYB)
Next up we have LyondellBasell, a global power in the chemical industry. This international company is the world’s largest player in the polyethylene and polypropylene technology space, owning the largest share of technologies and patents in the niche and profiting from licensing production. LYB also has a world-industry leading position in the production of polyolefin technologies, and has a large footprint in the more mundane refining of plastics and chemicals.