Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET) offers investors the best of both worlds. The master limited partnership (MLP) has a massive yield (currently around 8.5%). Because of that, it can provide investors with a lot of income. The main reason it has such a high yield is it trades at a bottom-of-the-barrel valuation. That gives it significant appreciation potential.

Those features make it a great opportunity for those with $1,000 or less to invest. It has the potential to produce a high-octane total return.

Energy Transfer generates a lot of steady cash flow as stable, fee-based structures supply about 90% of its earnings. The midstream company produced about $7.6 billion of distributable cash flow last year. It distributed about $4 billion to investors, enabling it to retain $3.6 billion of its cash flow. That gives this MLP a massive cushion, helping put its big-time payout on an extremely firm foundation.

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