This dividend title reports almost 7.5% and seems to be ready to draw commercial offers from Trump: the purchase time?

The energy transfer stock (and) has a lamentable race in 2025 and is down 9.2% for the year. The stock has underperformed many of its intermediate peers, and its return follows the Alps Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP), which is in the green this year.

A source of comfort for energy transfer investors was its high dividend yield, which currently amounts to almost 7.5% after the company announced an increase in its quarterly payment last month. In this article, we will explore if and Stock is ready for a rebound after the frustrating YTD sub-performance.

To start, let’s build an investment case for intermediate companies which are mainly involved in the transport, storage and processing of energy products. Although the intermediate energy industry is not witness to disproportionate growth, two drivers could help support higher growth in the coming years. The first is artificial intelligence (AI), where technological companies increase their investments, in particular towards authority data centers, which resemble a structural rear wind for the energy sector.

The second is the commercial and price policy of President Donald Trump. The United States seeks to push defense and energy exports to fill the trade deficit with business partners with which it has a significant deficit. We have seen it playing with the EU, and something similar could be on the table because the United States finally signed a trade agreement with China and India, two of the world’s largest energy importers.

However, despite the apparently positive fundamental principles, intermediate energy actions did not really join in 2025. This is partly due to outperformance last year, where intermediate actions, including and, provided solid yields in anticipation of favorable policies under the Trump administration.

While intermediate actions in general have a lukewarm year, the underperformance of and stands out. For intermediate companies such as energy transfer, progressive growth comes from acquisitions or new growth projects. And declared an increase of 13% on the other in annual shift in its profits in 2024 before interest, taxes, depreciations and amortizations (EBITDA), which was mainly led by the acquisition of Crestwood Equity Partners and WTG Midstream. However, the company expects its Baiia growth to be 5% in the middle of 2025, because there was no growth in inorganic growth as we saw last year.