A Close Look at Kinder Morgan's Massive Dividend Potential

A Close Look at Kinder Morgan's Massive Dividend Potential

If you are a dividend investor, oil and gas midstream giant Kinder Morgan's (NYSE: KMI) 2.5% yield might not pop up on your radar screen. But over the next couple of years that's likely to change. Here's what you need to know now about Kinder Morgan's huge dividend potential... just don't let the dividend prospects blind you to the risks.

Dividend investors should be checking Kinder Morgan out right now. The company just recently announced that it will increase its dividend 60% in 2018. That will pull it up from $0.50 a share per year to $0.80. Based on today's prices, the yield will jump from 2.5% to nearly 4%, a much more enticing number given that it's around twice the yield available from the S&P 500 today.

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