The Iran War Sent Oil Above $100.
These 3 Royalty Trusts Are Quietly Paying Double Digit Yields Because of It Quick Read – North European Oil Royalty Trust (NRT) trades at a trailing PE of 8 with an 11.8% dividend yield and Q4 2025 distributions surged to $0.31 per unit from $0.02 a year earlier
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT) units closed up 37.5% year to date as April 2026 distributions stabilized at $0.06972 per unit following March weakness, with WTI crude priced at $56.83 per barrel providing upside leverage. Kimbell Royalty Partners (KRP) beat Q4 2025 estimates with EPS of $0.21 versus $0.15 expected and revenue of $82.45 million versus $69.07 million expected, while launching a $100 million unit repurchase program. – WTI crude rebounding toward and above $100 per barrel is reviving cash distributions from royalty trusts that benefit from higher commodity prices without operating cost burdens. – The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 stocks and Cross Timbers Royalty Trust wasn’t one of them. Get them here FREE.
Oil is back in the headlines, and royalty trusts are quietly soaking up the rebound. With WTI crude flirting with and rising above $100 per barrel of late, the income side of the energy trade looks more interesting than it has in years. Royalty structures pass through commodity exposure without the operating cost burden of producers, and right now several of them sit well under $50 a share, putting them within reach of any retail investor scanning for yield.