Yorkville High Income MLP ETF

Over the past 12 months the group has had mixed results.

APU competes with Suburban Propane (SPH) and Ferrellgas Partners (FGP). APU is the country’s largest retail propane marketer, serving 2 million customers in all 50 states.

In 2013, the company processed an average of 780.1 million cubic feet per day of natural gas and produced an average of 91.9 thousand barrels per day of NGLs.

Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. (FGP), a master limited partnership (MLP), is the second largest retail propane distributor in the U.S. serving all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as measured by the volume of retail sales in fiscal 2013, and the largest national provider of propane by portable tank exchange.

Propane distributors such as Amerigas Partners (APU), Ferrellgas (FGP), and Suburban Propane (SPH) sell propane and related equipment to a variety of end markets. Find out what trends could hurt propane names this winter.

On August 23, 2017, natural gas September 2018 futures traded at a discount of $0.03 to September 2017 futures.

Propane demand for home heating purpose is directly affected by the severity of the winter. In any given region, colder-than-normal temperatures in the winter season tend to result in greater usage.

The Yorkville High Income MLP ETF (YMLP) dropped 7.69% in the week ended August 7. The broad-market SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) dropped 1.2%.

Targa Resources Partners LP (NGLS) is a master limited partnership operating in the midstream energy space. Targa Resources Corp. (TRGP) is the general partner of NGLS.