- DCP Midstream Partners (DPM -2.4%) is downgraded to Sell from Neutral with a $31 price target, cut from $41, at UBS on the back of the firm's natural gas liquids pricing revision, which prompted a similar downgrade of Chesapeake Energy.
- UBS expects weakness in propane/butane to continue in the near term before staging a recovery in Q4, and thus will continue to pressure DPM's credit profile.
- The firm lowers its 2015, 2016 and 2017 EBITDA estimates to a respective $629M, $621M and $692M from $641M, $665M and $744M to reflect the impact of changes to its forecasts and acknowledge that further slowdowns in drilling activity could pressure volumes.