High-yielding MLPs: one buy, one hold

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Buckeye Partners and Cedar Fair are master limited partnerships (MLPs). MLPs pay out most of their income to investors. As a result, they pay very little income tax. However, MLPs are not eligible for RRSPs or RRIFs. As well, Canadian investors are subject to a 35% U.S. withholding tax on income from MLPs. However, you can usually claim a non-refundable Canadian tax credit to offset that withholding tax. BUCKEYE PARTNERS L.P. $48 (New York symbol BPL; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Units outstanding: 97.8 million; Market cap: $4.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.0; Dividend yield: 8.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.buckeye.com) operates over 9,600 kilometres of pipelines in the northeastern and midwestern U.S. Its network pumps gasoline, jet fuel and other petroleum products. Buckeye also owns oil and natural gas storage terminals and other related businesses. The partnership continues to expand by acquisition. In February 2012, it agreed to buy a terminal in New York Harbour. That gives it access to the Atlantic Ocean, which makes…