Williams Cos. Inc. (WMB)

[Timothy Smith]

"We now believe the financial operating structure of the MLP may not survive in its current form, even as we say that most businesses using the MLP model are good ones,” writes Brian Nelson, president of Valuentum Securities; he thinks the stock market eventually will demand that MLPs pay their distributions and dividends out of earnings and traditional free cash flow, causing the declines in their unit prices to continue.