Key Stats for Energy Transfer Stock
- Current Price: $19.22
- TIKR Model Target (2030, Mid): ~$26
- LTM Net Debt/EBITDA: 4.40x
- Q1 2026 Adjusted EBITDA: $4.94B (+20% YoY)
- Q1 2026 Distributable Cash Flow to Partners: $2.70B (+17% YoY)
- FY2026 Adjusted EBITDA Guidance: $18.2B to $18.6B
- Quarterly Distribution: $0.3375/unit ($1.35 annualized, +3% YoY)
- 2026 Growth Capex: $5.5B to $5.9B
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$4.94 Billion in Quarterly EBITDA and a Pipeline Network That Data Centers Are Now Competing to Access
Energy Transfer (ET) moves natural gas, crude oil, and NGLs across 140,000 miles of pipeline, and right now that network sits directly in the path of one of the biggest infrastructure buildouts in decades.
The AI data center boom has created a power problem. Hyperscalers are increasingly building dedicated natural gas generation facilities to bypass an overwhelmed grid, and they need long-term pipeline access to fuel them.
Energy Transfer has contracted more than 6 billion cubic feet per day of new pipeline capacity over the past year, backed by agreements averaging 18 years.
It has a 20-year supply deal with Entergy Louisiana for a Meta data center hub and recently signed on to support a behind-the-meter AI campus in central Texas. The pipeline footprint was already valuable. It just became more so.
A Max Drawdown of 8% While EBITDA Grew 20%
Energy Transfer has been one of the more stable large-cap energy names over the past year. The max drawdown from the chart is just 8% over the period shown, which is unusually low for a stock in the energy sector.
The stock is currently about 6% off its recent high, a pullback that looks modest against Q1 2026, when adjusted EBITDA came in at $4.94 billion, up 20% from the prior year.
Distributable cash flow to partners hit $2.70 billion for the quarter. The company raised its full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance to $18.2 billion to $18.6 billion, and lifted the distribution to $1.35 annualized, up more than 3% from the prior year.
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$85 Billion in Revenue, Margins Climbing Back, and No Segment Above a Third of EBITDA
The revenue and EBITDA margin chart tells a useful story. Revenue ran at about $90 billion in 2022, then pulled back to around $79 billion in 2023 as commodity prices normalized, before recovering to about $85.5 billion in 2025. More importantly, the EBITDA margin compressed hard to about 14% in 2022 and has since climbed back to around 17.5%.
That recovery shows the fee-based model absorbing a commodity price cycle and coming out close to where it started. The vast majority of Energy Transfer’s margins are tied to volumes moved rather than prices, which is the structure long-term infrastructure investors want to see.
The business is also genuinely diversified. No single segment contributed more than a third of consolidated adjusted EBITDA in Q1 2026, with natural gas assets accounting for about 40% of earnings across intrastate, interstate, midstream, and storage. When one area slows, the others tend to carry the load.
The Desert Southwest pipeline captures where the growth is heading. It is a roughly 520-mile pipeline from the Permian Basin toward Phoenix, recently upsized to handle up to 2.3 billion cubic feet per day and backed by 25-year contracts.
The expected in-service date is late 2029, and the cost ranges from $5.6 billion to $6.2 billion. It is the kind of long-duration contracted asset that anchors midstream valuations.
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A ~$26 Mid-Case Target, About 5% Annualized, and a Distribution Yield Above 7%
The TIKR valuation model targets around $26 per share for Energy Transfer by year-end 2030, implying roughly 37% total return from the current price of $19.22, or about 5% annualized. The mid-case assumes around 2% to 3% annual revenue growth and net income margins near 5%, reflecting steady volume growth rather than a step-change in the business.
The high case reaches around $32 and total returns above 60%. For most investors in a name like this, though, the valuation model is almost secondary. At current prices, unitholders collect more than 7% annually in distributions while waiting for price appreciation. That yield changes the holding calculus considerably.
The bull case is that the AI infrastructure buildout is a decade-long tailwind for natural gas pipeline demand, and Energy Transfer’s scale and footprint put it in a strong position to capture it through long-term contracts.
The bear case is that leverage is 4.4x net debt to EBITDA, the Desert Southwest project carries execution and permitting risks, and any slowdown in data center construction could soften the volume story. The distribution has been growing, but the partnership has cut it before.
Energy Transfer is not a business that generates much excitement. It moves molecules through pipes, takes a fee, and pays out the cash. The question for investors is whether that model, combined with a multi-year AI demand tailwind and a yield above 7%, makes the case at $19.22.
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