- Rose Rock Midstream (NYSE:RRMS) is downgraded to Hold from Buy with a $35 price target, cut from $57, by the MLP analyst team at U.S. Capital Advisors, which also reduces its price target for Semgroup (NYSE:SEMG) to $60 from $84.
- The firm says dropdowns are a major part of the RRMS story, as it struggles to see how SEMG can make accretive dropdowns into RRMS without taking meaningful asset writedowns; it also expects the White Cliffs pipeline to face margin and/or volume pressure once the new DJ Basin pipelines come online in 2016.
- The firm also cuts price targets on 11 other stocks: KMI, MMP, CPPL, SMLP, PAA, PAGP, SE, WPZ, NGLS, TRGP, NFG.
- Top picks include EPD, CQP, TEP and RMP.